Android for Work Device Owner mode
Is it possible to get Intune to allow Android for Work to be setup in Device Owner Mode? Possibly with the App and NFC "bump" to setup the config.
This possibly one of the requirement from within the NCSC guidance (https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/eud-security-guidance-android-6)

Hi, if you caught our announcements at Ignite, we announced that we will support device owner mode for Android fully managed corporate devices. It will preview by end of year. Check out our EMS blog for more info
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Enterprise-Mobility-Security/What-s-New-with-Microsoft-Intune-and-System-Center-Configuration/ba-p/262542
So we’ll call this “started”. :-)
Also, we’ve been supporting Android kiosk mode since July.
26 comments
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Thomas Baklund commented
This is even out og preview and should be closed?
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Luke Page commented
Android fully managed devices support is a joke, there is virtually no functional features in here, not even TeamViewer support. Google has had this feature out for years, you should have support for this by now.
The kiosk functionality is awful, it's so bare-bones!
When can we expect any development on this!?
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Jon Roberts commented
What are the plans to add new features to preview? It has been in this state for 3 months now.
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Ian commented
I turned on my test devices and the apps came straight through. Compliance and config profiles still don't work though. Seems "preview" is very alpha at the moment. Hopefully it gets fixed shortly.
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Anonymous commented
I've had luck with pushing out applications and most device restrictions, however I can't get the device to prompt for a password. It does lock it down, so that if you go into settings, it will only let you set a password of the complexity that you have set. However it does not prompt you to set a password when there is none, suspect this is down to no compliance policies being pushed out yet.
Looking very promising so far though. -
Ian commented
Well, live it may be and you can enroll, but no apps or policies will push out.
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CJ commented
Preview now seems to be live
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/whats-new#week-of-january-14-2019 -
Jon T commented
Owner has been supported for a while to a degree where you can use it with Samsung Knox. Intune manages via Google DPC.
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Mike Shakespeare commented
Any update to when this will be available? It has been a feature on almost every other EMM for years now, currently this is stopping my company from moving across to InTune, if it's not in soon we will abandon InTune as a viable EMM and I am sure many others will do the same.
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Adrian commented
Any update to when the preview will be available
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Andrew Dawson commented
Thanks Cathy,
Will COPE (corporate-owned, personally enabled) also be supported at the same time?
(https://developers.google.com/android/work/terminology#fully_managed_device_with_a_work_profile)
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dave commented
Finally, we have been waiting for months!!
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Mark commented
It's crazy this still has nothing from MS about development here.
Don't make people pick between Intune and Android... you're probably going to lose.
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Jason commented
Somewhat surprised that this isn't a feature that has been developed yet. I suspect that there are still a large number of organisations haven't adopted BYOD and never will.
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Dan commented
How do you restrict a end user from removing the MDM profile from an Android device ?
With Apple I use the Enrollment Program which connects my Apple Business Account MDM Server containing all our devices and add a Profile to these devices, one setting being Locked Enrollment.
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Jeffery Kozera commented
This is a MUST HAVE for any organization using android.
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Peke12 commented
This, together with zero-touch enrollment, would be a great improvement for Android devices managed within Intune.
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Alex Janes commented
We really need this. It is a much more effective management strategy for our company owned devices.
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Anders Eklöf commented
Since Windows Mobile is out of the picture we really need this! We only have company owned devices.
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paulconaty commented
Any roadmap on when this is due? It was mentioned as coming in early 2018. This is a critical differentiator for many customers who want to leverage Android Enterprise and is supported by all of the other major EMM solutions