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Can you deploy an app to personal mobiles if they use it for work?
Thijs Lecomte I dont really want to manage personal devices in great detail. It sounds like we just want to make sure that if they want to access corporate data that they are to some extend managed so that we can make sure they are in compliance and our data is secure. If a user leave we should be able to remove just corporate data off the device.
Then you can manage only corporate data on the phones
Do note: then you cannot push the Cisco application
Thijs Lecomte In which case then what i want is not correct 🙂 So im back to Android Work Profiles and IOS user enrolment right?
- Correct 🙂 You need to manage the device if you want to publish applications to them
Hey,
if we talk about push it is not possible to do so if a device is not enrolled, If we talk about a App Store functionality it is possible to provide users apps even without enrollment. The key thing there is to assign them to users not devices, only user assignment is working and then using the company portal. The web version of the company portal (https://portal.manage.microsoft.com/) will even allow you to install your custom LOB iOS apps for example. You need to confirm a few prompts but finally you can have a company in-house developed iOS app target to your users (without enrollment) via Company Portal and let them install the LOB app. Just go ahead, upload a app and assign it to the user and go to the web Company Portal.
Yes it is no push, but self-service app store style is possible. For app updates it is the same they will not be pushed, the user would need to go again to the Company Postal to install the update.
best,
Oliver
