Joining a Global Community of Innovators

We’re thrilled to be part of Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco, CA, where thousands of technology leaders, partners, and customers gather to shape the future. This year’s event is centered on AI-driven transformation, secure platforms, and connected ecosystems, and MDEP stands at the forefront of that vision. Ignite is more than just a showcase for us: It’s a valuable opportunity to connect with partners, exchange insights, and demonstrate how MDEP is enabling collaboration devices, digital signage, and new form factors across diverse industries.

Driving Innovation with Our Partners

Over recent months, we have worked closely with our distribution and development partners to bolster code delivery pipelines, enhance security posture, and ensure feature readiness. These collaborative efforts include:

• Platform Security: We are continuing to drive security innovation across the full stack - securing cloud-to-device interactions, assuring device and application integrity through hardware-backed attestation, hardening OS services, and strengthening device identity; 

  • These foundational elements power future MDEP services and features like Zero-Touch Enrollment (ZTE) and OTA services, delivering Microsoft-grade security assurance to our customers.

  • We’re taking device security even further with measured Boot based on DICE for trusted startup, Native Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for advanced threat protection and Foundations for Virtualized Execution using the Android Virtualization Framework to harden the platform.

  •  All of this builds on our ongoing SFI investments, enhancing security across platform, tools, and build infrastructure, validating device software configurations through comprehensive security test suites, and rigorous penetration testing.
    MDEP continues to set the benchmark for secure devices and services, ensuring a trusted future for our customers and partners.

• Streamlined provisioning: Work continues on enhanced certificate lifecycle management and remote access capabilities for large-scale deployments, alongside completing MDEP Zero-Touch Provisioning to simplify onboarding at scale.

• Future-ready features: We’re expanding support for next-generation SoC platforms and laying the groundwork for an Agentic OS with our AI Framework that’s designed for on-device intelligence with privacy and extensibility at its core. These investments will deliver enterprise-grade security, reliability, and manageability - empowering partners to innovate faster.
• Growing the community: The MDEP community keeps growing! We recently welcomed Neat and Cisco, who joined our growing list of partners. Every new addition reinforces the power of the MDEP ecosystem – bringing together diverse expertise to drive innovation, scalability, and shared success.  
• Android 15: We shipped our first Android 15-based MDEP release, marking a major milestone in platform evolution:
• Migration to Android 15: All core MDEP components and services were rebuilt and validated for A15, ensuring compatibility and performance across supported SoCs.
• Expanded SoC Support: We continue to extend our platform with enablement of additional chipsets: https://aka.ms/MDEPSoCs.
• Zero-Trust Security Enhancements: Delivered frictionless certificate provisioning, secure pairing, and compliance with Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative.
• Networking & Display Parity: Closed gaps with Windows by adding EAP over LAN and dynamic DPI scaling for better enterprise integration.
• AI Framework Foundation: Introduced ONNX-based runtime for future AI-driven features and telemetry improvements.
• Improved Management Tools: Enhanced Device Manager for APEX rollback and hardware checks, plus OTA update service for conditional rollouts.

Welcome HP and DTEN to the MDEP Community

We are proud to announce that HP and DTEN have joined the MDEP ecosystem, further strengthening our commitment to cultivating a diverse and innovative partner network.

As a global technology leader, HP’s commitment to innovation perfectly complements MDEP’s mission to deliver secure, scalable, and intelligent device experiences for customers worldwide. By leveraging HP’s deep knowledge in device engineering and user experience, we’re able to co-create collaboration devices that meet the evolving needs of hybrid work environments, enhancing productivity, reliability, and security for organizations of all sizes. Collaborating with HP also enriches our ecosystem with wider device choice, ensuring customers benefit from the very latest advancements in both hardware and software. We are excited about the new possibilities this collaboration unlocks and look forward to driving transformative change together in the workplace technology landscape.

“Welcoming HP to the MDEP community is a milestone for our ecosystem and for customers who expect enterprise‑grade security, manageability, and innovation at scale. Together, we’ll bring Android‑based devices to market faster, backed by a disciplined update cadence, Zero Trust–aligned security posture, and deep integration with Microsoft services.” Says Juha Kuosmanen, Head of MDEP, Microsoft. “HP’s global reach and engineering excellence, combined with MDEP’s standardized platform, will help customers simplify deployment, reduce fragmentation, and unlock new experiences across meeting rooms and beyond. We’re excited to partner closely with HP to accelerate what’s possible for our shared customers.”

Greg Baribault, Vice President, Hybrid Systems Product and Portfolio Management, HP, commented: “HP and Microsoft have been partnering to bring innovation, cutting edge solutions and choice to our customers for over 30 years. By including MDEP in our HP Poly Studio device portfolio we are able to offer Microsoft Teams Rooms customers the latest HP Poly AI powered audio and video collaboration experiences built upon Microsoft's secure and manageable Android platform.”

DTEN, renowned for its intuitive video collaboration solutions, is now a part of the MDEP family. This partnership will enable simplified deployment and unified management of DTEN devices, ensuring enterprise-grade security and exceptional performance.

Chris L Johnson, Senior Director Program Management (MDEP): “We’re delighted to welcome DTEN to the MDEP community. Their innovation mindset and customer focus strengthen a rapidly growing ecosystem dedicated to delivering secure, manageable, and intelligent device experiences.”

“MDEP provides the foundation we need to scale our solutions globally while maintaining the highest standards of security and user experience.” Said Scott Krueckeberg, Head of Global Alliances, DTEN.

Celebrating New Devices Built on MDEP

Innovation in our ecosystem extends beyond partnerships – we’re launching cutting-edge devices that are redefining collaboration:

• Meet Yealink’s new Teams Wi-Fi handset: the first of its kind for Microsoft Teams. This strategic move closes a clear market gap and sets the stage for wireless collaboration. Built rugged and ready, it delivers native Teams calling over Wi-Fi.
  This handset empowers frontline workers and advances MDEP’s vision for secure, mobile collaboration.
  
  

• AudioCodes RXV200 and RX-PAD: The RXV200, paired with the RX-PAD room controller, is an intelligent AV hub designed to connect to a wide range of meeting rooms peripherals. It offers dual-screen support and AI-powered auto-framing, delivering outstanding meeting experiences for rooms of all sizes.

Looking Ahead

On the opening day of Ignite, one message stands out: MDEP is more than a platform – it’s a catalyst for innovation. By uniting security, manageability, AI, and extensibility, we’re enabling partners to deliver devices that meet the evolving needs of modern workplaces and set the tone for what’s next.

Today, the ecosystem is thriving: we’ve welcomed a broad set of OEM partners, support a wide range of SoCs, and have numerous partner device programs actively in development. This depth of engagement reflects why so many OEMs have joined MDEP – not just for what’s available now, but for the roadmap and capabilities that will define the next generation of collaboration devices.