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Why is "Activate device admin app" displaying when setting up Outlook on Android?
What bothered me was the msg that states (" DELETE ALL DATA") "Erase the phones data without warning by performing a factory data reset" .. what the???
So I was very cautious to that info and just clicked "cancel"
Has anybody agreed to the terms and conditions and experienced anything negative ?
It is difficult to explain why Android presents that possibility to the user that their personal data will be wiped, but it actually won't be. So don't worry. Outlook doesn't contain a specific policy "OS call" that would trigger such a thing. It's an app-level wipe, not a phone wide wipe. It could remove all Outlook app data that's synced from the work servers if too many incorrect password attempts occur at the lock screen.
These are the four policies enacted when a user grants device admin privileges to Outlook.
1. Encrypted-storage
2. Force-lock
3. Limit-password
4. Watch-login
The three policies that can wipe your device are setMaximumFailedPasswordsForWipe and two wipeData methods. All three of these require the USES_POLICY_WIPE_DATA Policy, which the Outlook app does not request.
- Has the limitation on erasing data been confirmed? This is a rather alarming message to receive on a personal device.
