BYOD Android devices - provisioning with the enrollment URL

This page explains provisioning BYOD Android devices with the enrollment URL.

About this task

Mobile users can enroll their personally-owned Android devices to BigFix Mobile with the enrollment URL. While enrolling, a work profile gets automatically deployed as configured in the associated policy group. After enrolling, the device will have a personal profile and a work profile. Organization can manage the work profile of the enrolled devices through policies in the policy group and through MCM actions. The organization does not have any visibility or control over the personal profile.

To enroll BYOD Android devices to BigFix Mobile and deploy work profile using enrollment link, follow these steps:

Procedure

  1. On an Android device, open a web browser and enter the MDM server URL (for example www.mdm.bigfix.com\enroll).
  2. Enter an email address and password that is associated with a valid AD set of credentials (If LDAP authentication is configured for the MDM server).

    After authenticated successfully, user can see a success message. At this point, the user is redirected to the enrollment URL.
  3. Click Enroll.
  4. In the following screen, click NEXT
  5. In the next screen, to start setting up your work profile, click Accept & Continue. Based on the associated policy group, work applications and data are gathered in the device.
  6. Wait for few seconds until the NEXT button appears on the screen and then click NEXT to continue. Wait for few minutes until the profile gets registered and enrollment is completed.
    • After successful installation of MDM on the BYOD devices, navigate to Personal > Google Accounts, where you can see two profiles namely Personal and Work.
    • Also, you can see two tabs, one for personal and one for work. Under Work profile, you can see only the applications as per the associated policy group.
    • In the notification bar, if a policy group was configured to install Appstore apps, you can see “Installing apps from your organization”.
    • In the Work profile, if you go to Google Play store, you can see only the apps that are allowed as per the policy, if a policy group was configured to install Appstore apps.

Results

You have successfully enrolled your Android device to BigFix Mobile. The work profile is provisioned based on the policy group deployed onto the device. It might take a few minutes to show up the enrolled device in the WebUI. Once the device is listed under The Device List in WebUI, you can manage the device from here.