Device enrollment

Getting started with web-based device enrollment for iOS devices

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This week is all about a new enrollment feature for iOS/iPadOS devices. That feature is web-based device enrollment. Web-based device enrollment is now one of the two device enrollment methods that is available for personal iOS/iPadOS devices. The other method is the already existing device enrollment with the Company Portal app. The main differentiator for web-based device enrollment is that it provides a faster and more user-friendly enrollment experience. It’s no longer required to first download the Company Portal app. Instead the user can just go to the Company Portal website, or start the new enrollment experience via an app that requires a compliant device. More user-friendly and accessible via the favorite browser of the user. Besides that, web-based device enrollment can be used in …

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Block Android device enrollment for specific device manufacturer

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This week is all about restricting the enrollment of Android devices. More specifically, about a very recently introduced feature which is the ability to block Android device enrollment based on the manufacturer of the device. That enables the organization to prevent Android devices of specific manufacturers from enrolling in Microsoft Intune. That can be useful when the organization has a specific policy for allowed device manufacturers. In this post I’ll walk through the configuration steps, followed with the end-user experience. Starting with this post, I’ll provide both the configuration steps via the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center portal and the configuration location in the Graph API (including the related JSON-snippet) as part of the configuration steps. Configuration steps Now let’s start by having a look at the …

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