Intune now showing tenant name on lockscreen

[Michel]

Hi everyone,

As of some weeks, Intune started showing the tenant name on the lockscreen. Where it used to say "this device belongs to your organisation" it now says: " This device belongs to company name" .

Since this is a big no for most of our customers, I was wondering if other people noticed this as well and maybe even found a solution for it. Microsoft support admitted that they changed this, but they will now help us getting it fixed or even giving us the option to enable or disable this. 

Showing the company name on a device can make a device more interesting to people who might find a lost or stolen device. Therefore, we never show company names or logo's on the lock screen. And most customers we work with expect that kind of behaviour. We currently have to project on hold because if this detail. (And its costing us extra business because they are not buying the hardware that comes with it 😅)

I hope someone else is having more luck! In the meantime I'm escalating this via other companies in our group with better MS connections but those take some time. 

And if you haven't noticed this issue, please be aware of it. As far as we know, only Intune has done this. Knox, Workspace one and Mobile Iron are not showing this message. Samsung has replied that this is absolutly not right in their opinion. Its a big risk for companies. 

[Michel]

Hi @mattdermody , @Lizzie ,

Thanks for suggesting this! We have tested this, it was my first guess as well. But when configuring this option in Intune, it adds the text below the " This devices belongs to companyX" text. It does not replace it. 

This would have been the easiest solution haha

We are working with MS premier support, hopefully they do accept that this isnt the best choice and will make some changes. 

[mattdermody]

That is unfortunate to hear this was pushed out to your devices unannounced by Intune and you have no obvious way of reversing it. I use SOTI MobiControl primarily and it has a configuration script where you can set a custom lockscreen message to be whatever you want. You can also pass in Macros / dynamic variable names and have those resolved automatically to have customizations of the message per device. This feature has been around for quite some time as I've been using it since at least early 2022. 

This is the script format that works in SOTI for reference. 

writeprivateprofstring LockScreenString Message %DEVICENAME%

apply LockScreenString

Maybe you'll get lucky and Intune will have something similar.

[Lizzie]

Hey @Michel,

I hope you are doing well, and thanks for sharing. 

My immediate thought here is whether the 'Lock screen messages policy' setting in Intune might override this? It sounds like you are on the road to getting this fixed so I imagine you have tried many options here. 

Are any others experiencing this?

Thanks again,
Lizzie

[Lizzie]

Hey @Michel,

Actually looking into my suggestion above more (Lock screen messages policy setting), I don't think this would help here - sorry about that.

Out of interest is this happening on newly enrolled devices? Or only on certain devices?