ZTE Enrollment Profiles Issue
Greetings everyone! New day, new challenge. I’ve received a number of Zebra tablets. We already use ZTE, which works fine, but as you know it assigns devices to a single profile based on the serial number. The issue is: These tablets (same model) will be used for many different purposes, and I don’t think it’s efficient to take each device out of the box, read the serial number, and manually assign it to a different ZTE profile. I could easily end up managing 200 different profiles. So my question is: Is there a way to let the device choose which group or category it should belong to during enrollment? For example, during setup the device could ask the user which category it belongs to and based on that selection it would automatically join the correct group and receive the appropriate configuration. Is this possible? Or am I dreaming? 😄 Has anyone faced this issue and found a good solution? Thanks in advance!
Intune Migrate Managed Google Play Account to Managed Google Domain
Hi there, I’m looking for clarification on Microsoft's recent update about upgrading tenants from a Managed Google Play account to a Managed Google Domain account in Intune. Intune Android Enterprise Update We have 130+ Android Enterprise devices enrolled in Intune with an old Gmail account we dont have direct access to. Our Intune connection was originally set up using this account back in 2023. Now we have the option to "Upgrade" our account but we need to understand the risks before we proceed. Microsoft says that we can continue managing devices under the new Entra‑linked Managed Google Domain account without deprecating the old method, and without device impact. Is the migration fully in‑place and non-disruptive? Meaning: No need to retire devices No re-enrollment No break in Managed Google Play sync No loss of approved apps or assignments Is this migration guaranteed to perform an in-place transition of the administrative account without: Breaking the existing Android Enterprise binding Generating a new enterprise ID Requiring any user/device actions Interrupting app delivery or policy deployment? Any advice from someone who has already completed the upgrade would be great! Thank you in advance for any clarification.
Work Profile Setup
Hi, I am setting up some new Samsung devices with Intune. I have chosen to go with Company Owned Work Profile (COPE). in the work profile, I see a Work Phone app and a Work Messenger app. How can I transfer the info from their existing phone to here? Smart switch will goto the Personal profile. There is a Samsung and Google Account on the phone. How do I verify that the data like text messages (from the work profile) are being backed up to one of those accounts? I can probably move the contacts to outlook so the work profile is syncing that. Also, on the S24Fe I am testing on, it created Messages in the work profile, but on the S25 it didn't any way to get that to install? Thanks -Joe
Android Expert Forum & Feature Request
Hey As I saw that bunch of question have been left unanswered on the expert forum is no one at Google monitoring the feed? I just wanted to post it here as the conversations seem to get more traction here. Is there official thread where feature request could be sent, I have been supporting mobile device management over way over a decade and in that time I have seen all sorts of things and there would be some features that would help greatly in managing enterprise environments with Android. Couple examples: It would be great if there would be a way to deploy some contact numbers to the devices on device address book, such service desk or onsite support number. This is especially needed for dedicated devices which usually do not have any email accounts associated with them and getting common contacts deployed to all devices is quite labor intensive with the current tools. Another one is the OS update management, which is lacking quite a bit, especially as I need to do a comparison to Apple and how their new OS update delivery works, it just makes the Android one lack in features. I would really want to see that on enteprise owned device we would have an override for downloading the OS updates via mobile data, as this is huge pain point when wi-fi networks are not available on some sites, and if the end users are not the most technically savvy, it would allow us admins to at least keep the fleet to some what up to date, obviously there still would probably be some issues, but the current status of the OS update policies is lacking. Also not sure should the update installation recognize on going phones calls when it is set to do the updates in automatic mode? As initially when we tried to apply it we got bunch of notifications that the updates where triggered during a phone call. /rant Thanks,
Enable third party EMM (Intune)
So I am trying to enable Managed Google Play in Intune to use for Android device management. We already have a managed Google domain, but we have device management turned off. To my knowledge we only use it for Workplace. When I try to enable managed google play in Intune I get two different error messages Any ideas or tips of what we need to enable or open up in the Google admin console to enable third party EMM? Does the account I am using to enable managed google play have to be a google super admin or something?Android Enterprise work profile does not support wearOS yet
Hi, We recently moved to android enterprise with work profile (using Intune) for all of our android users. And we just found out that with android enterprise with work profile does not support wearOS yet so that our users cannot add their corporate email account (O365) to the outlook app on their samsung watch or pixel watch. we tried to contact microsoft about this and microsoft said that this is not up to Microsoft but it is up to Google Android whether they would like to support wearOS for work profile. Can Google confirm if they would like to provide some support for work profile in the future for wearOS as well? I know that any development of newly feature in android system are fully confidential but it would be good for android end users to know if Google has a plan to support this in the future or not.Global contact lookup from system dialer via Outlook App
Hi everyone, I just trying to find out whether other Android Enterprise users/admins are struggeling with the same issue than we do. Our pain point is the user experience on making phone calls to (remote) contacts from an Android Enterprise device. Today, you can search personal and company / work profile contacts if they are saved to the local contact databases on the device. BUT you have to switch to another app (in our case MS Outlook) to search for remote contacts if you did not save/export the contact to the local contacts database. My DCR with MS is about a feature implementation into MS Outlook app to answer search requests for contacts from the dialer app directly into GAL. As far as I can see in the developer API of Android Enterprise this should be possible: Work profile contacts | Android Developers And: I did see this thing working on Android Enterprise enrolled devices on Google workspace! Are other admins thinking about this as well? Can we use the community to put pressure on Microsoft to make this a feature of Outlook? (if technically possible for sure!)
