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Google apps dont have access to users account & training options
Hi there HKP
For training you can take a look at the Android Enterprise academy, androidenterprise.training
You may also benefit from the AE docs - support.google.com/work/android
And if you'd like further reading, I also offer hundreds of articles on my site - bayton.org/android
To your questions -
For fully managed devices, you'll need to start from a factory-reset state. When you configure fully managed user devices (I assume?) you'll be provided a QR code by Intune to scan. You can tap 6x on the welcome screen of all modern android devices to initiate the QR reader, and that should kick off the process.
For Google, you'll need to allow users to add their Google accounts on the devices. By default Intune will provision a generic managed Google Play account that is not associated with the user directly. If you're a Google Workspace customer with advanced Android management, you'll have further options that may save you on intune licenses too.
Hopefully that gets you started?
There isn't a wallpaper API accessible to Intune. I don't have a console available to verify but I should think this is more directed at the Microsoft Managed Launcher than generic homescreen. Can you verify?
It's a great solution for on-device customisation you wouldn't otherwise have, and behaves well for kiosk deployments as well as just offering a consistent, unified Android home experience irrespective of OS or OEM you may be deploying 🙂
This'll go well as a standalone topic 🙂
I imagine for your use case setting up conditional access policies would help here in addition to app protection policies. Conditional access is pretty aggressive in ensuring devices meet requirements frequently - at least on Android - and should help.
Thanks to all that have helped so far.
I've made pretty good progress, but one thing I'd like to do is to set the wallpaper of our devices with a corporate image. I have saved this to a Google Drive and made it accessible by anyone but the policy does not seem to apply.
I have made a Configuration Policy for Android Enterprise, Policy Type is Device restrictions and pointed it to the image and also one on a public website but it does not apply to the Corporate owned, fully managed user device. The policy applies to All users and All devices.
Is there something I am missing, please?
There isn't a wallpaper API accessible to Intune. I don't have a console available to verify but I should think this is more directed at the Microsoft Managed Launcher than generic homescreen. Can you verify?
