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rbritton69
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Jan 21, 2025

Reporting on Timezone and Time - Android

Hi Folks:

We recently migrated off legacy Airwatch for our Android devices. We have been running on Intune for iPhones for a few years. Our legacy Airwatch was reaching EOL and we wanted to consolidate.

For two months, we've been able to enroll Samsung A7+ and A9+ tabs, deploy apps and configurations (Microsoft Launcher) using Intune. It's been working rudimentarily for us.

One of our apps is a healthcare app that syncs to a back end DB.  At initial setup on the Samsung client, this app reads the time and time zone and stores it in the DB. everytime the user does work, that time / timezone setting is used. If the user travels say from Buffalo (our location) to Japan, the buffalo time / time zone (EST) is still used, though the Samsung tab likely changed the time zone while traveling.

I need to find a way to run a report to get the device's current time and timezone out of Intune. This is so we can ensure that all our healthcare devices have their times and times zones set properly.

At time of enrollment, all Android tabs (Android 14) are set for AUTOMATICALLY get the time and time zone and set them. From what we've learned, when connecting to the Cell Data plans at start, these settings on android occur kind of like an NTP during boot of the device.

In looking to Intune, I need to generate a report to list out each device's time and timezone.

That last line is what I need. This is so we can report to our HIPAA compliance and regulatory team.

It does not appear there is any way to pull this directly from the Intune Admin console, though I am not an expert as my team has only been using intune for Android evices for a few weeks.

If Intune Admin has no way, is there a way to pull more discrete device data from a powershell script (meaning get a devices time and time zone?)

More broadly, it seems like the MDM capabilities for Android devices are really rudimentary using Intune. I don't mind supplementing. I'm thinking some more robust data collection and configuration information collection tool will be needed down the road.

 

That's it. Just need a way to pull time and time zone data from Intune, powershell, graph api, something . . . 

 

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