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Android Exchange Sync Problems: Contacts and Calendar Not Updating
Hello, I manage a fleet of more than 1,000 Samsung Android devices using Omnissa Workspace One (AirWatch), devices are enrolled in COPE. We use Gmail, Google Calendar, and the native Samsung Contacts app in the work profile, all synchronized through an Exchange ActiveSync connector. Since Wednesday, November 26th, we have been experiencing synchronization issues: - Contacts and calendar events saved on Exchange disappear after some time. - The Calendar app eventually shows an “Unauthorized Action” error and refuses to open. - Gmail continues to sync emails normally. The issue occurs randomly (sometimes after one hour, sometimes longer). Clearing Gmail’s app data and signing in again temporarily resolves the problem, but the issue always comes back. We've tryied uninstalling and reinstalling the app through our MDM but we can only do it user by user and we're not sure about it fixing the issue. We have no means to "rollback" Gmail's version to an older one through our MDM, i've tryied uninstalling recent updates on one of my test phones, it's seems stable for the moment. We noticed that Gmail received an update recently, and a couple of other fleet managers have reported the same problem since that update on Play store's comments. Have you identified any bug or recent change in Gmail that could affect Exchange/ActiveSync synchronization? Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Play Protect is blocking our DPC app — appeal already submitted, looking for guidance
Hello everyone, We are currently facing an issue where Google Play Protect is blocking our Android application during device provisioning. Context: - It is not distributed via Google Play (but is already published); it is hosted externally and installed during provisioning via QR code. - The app is properly signed, and provisioning works at the system level, but Play Protect blocks the app with the message “App blocked to protect your device.” - This started happening recently on new devices / factory reset devices. We have already submitted the official Play Protect appeal form as recommended in the documentation: The form was completed with all required information (APK, package name, signing certificate, use case, etc.). At this point, we are looking for guidance from the community: - How long does it usually take for the Play Protect appeal form to receive a response or decision? - Is there any additional step or channel recommended for Android Enterprise DPC apps in this situation? Any insights or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time and support. Best regards
Device Owner Enrollment Error: “Organization Has Reached Its Usage Limits” Even With Zero Devices
Hi everyone, I’m trying to enroll a fully managed Android device using the Android Management API. I generate an enrollment token, create the QR code, factory reset the device, and start the QR-based provisioning process. Everything works until the Android Device Policy step, where I get the following error: “Since your organization has reached its usage limits, this device can’t be set up.” I am unable to get past this point. Here is what I have already checked: Listing devices through the API returns an empty list. There are no enrolled devices at all. Billing is active on the cloud project and the Android Management API is enabled. Enterprise creation works, policies return correctly, and I can generate enrollment tokens without any issues. The device is correctly factory reset and the QR scan is working as expected. I tested with both a Workspace-based enterprise and a Gmail-based enterprise. The same limit error appears on both, even though both enterprises have zero devices. I moved the cloud project under my organization in Google Cloud to avoid any project-level quota problems. Based on everything I have checked, it appears that the enterprise (or account) has been automatically restricted to a device quota of zero, and the restriction has not lifted even after several days. I would like to understand the following: Is this quota lock normal for new enterprises, and how long does it usually take to lift? Is this quota tied to AMAPI commercial approval? Is it expected that zero devices can be enrolled before approval? Is there any way to request a quota review so that at least one test device can be enrolled? I am building a commercial EMM solution and simply need to test device-owner provisioning on a physical device, but I am currently blocked by this limit. Any guidance from the community or anyone who has dealt with the same situation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
AMAPI requests for enterprises.applications.get and enterprises.policies.patch are failing intermittently
Is anyone observing AMAPI requests for GetApplication and PatchPolicies failing intermittently ? I am observing intermittent failures with the log - "googleapi: Error 503: The service is currently unavailable., backendError".Android Enterprise work profile does not support wearOS yet
Hi, We recently moved to android enterprise with work profile (using Intune) for all of our android users. And we just found out that with android enterprise with work profile does not support wearOS yet so that our users cannot add their corporate email account (O365) to the outlook app on their samsung watch or pixel watch. we tried to contact microsoft about this and microsoft said that this is not up to Microsoft but it is up to Google Android whether they would like to support wearOS for work profile. Can Google confirm if they would like to provide some support for work profile in the future for wearOS as well? I know that any development of newly feature in android system are fully confidential but it would be good for android end users to know if Google has a plan to support this in the future or not.
Does the bluetoothSharing setting override the bluetoothContactSharingDisabled setting?
If a policy is configured with: DeviceConnectivityManagement > bluetoothSharing=BLUETOOTH_SHARING_DISALLOWED and bluetoothContactSharingDisabled=FALSE will the first setting override the second, thereby preventing contact sharing via bluetooth? If so, it could be good to have that documented like it's done in other places (e.g. "This setting is ignored if {SettingName} is set to X"Outlook and Teams with PSTN calling in work profile
Hi today we raised a case with Microsoft for a specific work profile issue with their current Outlook and MS Teams implementation. I wanted to share this here, maybe there are some other customers/admins facing this issue. Our org started to move from Cisco to MS Teams PSTN calling some month ago and everything was fine, but I assume an update to either Outlook or Teams app was published and the issue started. Scenario: COPE or BYOD MS Teams and MS Outlook in work profile MS Teams has a PSTN line configured (either mobile or landline) Open Outlook, search for any contact and try to start a call to a mobile or desk number. The OS does not ask whether you like to use the phone on personal profile (as it did the last couple of years 😅) - it will hand over the call request to MS teams! You cannot decide to make the phone call with your Phone app :-( This breaks almost all use cases for our users. Even worse: A phone number like +49 123 828282 is transfered to MS teams app in a broken format and the call is made to +492492012320828282 💥😔 Compared to Google contacts in the work profile: The app is always handling the call request to the phone app on the personal profile and incorporate the MS Teams app. 🤔 Anyone else here in the community experiencing this issue? Thanks! Daniel