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iOS Outook sync to Contact app, protection from non managed apps
Alo Press Hello,
I have found this link which seems to make it work:
How to enable iOS unmanaged apps to read managed contacts & write unmanaged contacts without compromising security using Microsoft Intune (daveinfotech.com.au)
I will try this tomorrow to see if this works and reply back later.
Also this Link is interesting:
iOS 12.1 allows managed contacts to be written from managed apps to native contacts app | Enterprise Mobility and Enterprise Client Management Blog (configmgrblog.com)
"Great news! With the release of iOS 12.1 Apple created two settings that allow you to control if contacts can be written to the contacts app by managed apps and a setting that allows you to control if unmanaged apps can read the managed contacts accounts."
Do you have any idea if this is ture?
nirispa Hi nirispa, maybe you can take a look at the discussion here: New contact sync scenario available with Outlook for iOS on enrolled devices - Microsoft Tech Community it´s basically the same requirement from what I understood in your post.
Regarding your link to iOS 12.1:
The main issue here is even though you can sync from managed (MEM) Outlook to contacts app, once the contacts are synced to the contacts app of iOS they are in an unmanaged app, meaning that you can´t control any further if e.g. WhatsApp gets access to them or not.
The second setting just controls, wether unmanaged apps can directly access contacts within a managed app like Outlook, which is not very useful for our case IMHO.
Mike
- Hello Mike,
this seems like a solution. I have tried to deploy it but I get this error:
-2016341112 (iOS device is currently busy)
Also, my Company Portal keeps telling me that it can't set up my company mail because I still need to remove my company mail, even doe I am using a fresh setup iPhone with no email configured, Outlook was not installed before downloading the Company Portal (deploy Outlook and other apps).
I will keep trying and update this thread if I find a solution for this issue...
Thanks for the article as it helps and sheds light on the situation.
Br,
Stefan
