[Product Update] Introducing the Improved Signup Experience for Android Enterprise

Nice to see the improvements. Hope above mentioned few features also possible for the existing environment ?. 

Great to see your reply here govi and that you are looking forward to this. In regards to your question, are there specific features you looking for in your existing setup?

Hi Lizzie,

What will happen if the user whose domain account is used for the initial setup and binding then leaves the company. While the shared generic Gmail account has come with it's own set of problems it at least has been useful in situations where the original admin leaves. I worry with personal domain accounts the original account holder could leave the company.

Lizzie Hope you are doing good. I have a couple of questions:

1) Simplified IT Admin Experience: Does this include Google Zero Touch portal and Managed Google play/Android Enterprise binding accounts also?

2) Enhanced flexibility and control: Does this mean I can use the same account for binding multiple EMMs like SOTI/Intune or are we talking about multiple instances of same EMM here?

If we have private apps deployed using the same account, how does it gets distributed across EMMs using the account?

mattdermody with it being an enterprise domain it should be easier to recover if this happens, not least with Google support, but also the ownership of the domain can work around email routing and such. But obviously a stitch in time.. advise these are set up with multiple folks from get-go.

Kumaresh90 ZT isn't included today, hopefully in future. Domain accounts can be added to ZT portal though.

Multiple instances and multiple EMMs 🙂

Hello everyone,

Just a quick note in case you haven't seen our recent blog article on the improved signup flow, here is the link: How we are making Android Enterprise signup and access to Google services better

The blog provides demo imagery of what to expect. 😀

Hope you find this useful. Let us know if you have any thoughts. 

Thanks,

Lizzie

Hey Lizzie,

Good to read the detailed blog article. Is there any technical documentation or demo video on the below?

"Finally, the improved signup experience will allow you to bind multiple enterprise mobility management (EMM) instances to your organization’s account, making it easier to use testing and production environments in parallel or transition to a new EMM vendor."

Hey Kumaresh90,

Great to hear from you, I hope you are doing well. 

Glad you are finding these articles useful. As this will be rolling out later this year, I believe the team are currently working on technical documentations and working with partners. More updates will be coming on this from your EMM partners too.

I will also highlight your message back to our team working on this though and see if there is anything else they can provide here. 

To add, if you are interested in the binding of multiple enterprise (EMM) instances, you might find this article useful, it is from October last year. 

Speak to you soon. Thank you,

Lizzie

jasonbaytonAny more news on adding SSO to the Zero Touch portal?
Our Company has mandated that all app/logins require 2FA and thus must have Okta SSO integration.
Our domain users are now unable to login to ZT because they are redirected to our SSO page by default.

DCreamer I'd direct that to Lizzie for an official answer. 

I'd look at leaning on cloud identity/workspace hooked into okta to provision managed Google accounts for access to services like ZT (and others). 

If you've already got a bind there will be a migration in 2025 to the new sign-up flow and a Google enterprise environment. If you can't wait you could kick off your own instance.

Lizzie could highlight any risk with doing that but I would expect said migrations to support going into existing domains.