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Refactoring of Android agent enrollment workflows

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Abstract

MaaS360 redesigns Android agent enrollment screens to enhance the user experience and streamline the enrollment steps. As a part of design refactoring, MaaS360 adds granular enrollment steps and improves error handling.

Content

  • Completes device enrollment as a part of device provisioning - Executes device enrollment as a part of device provisioning to enforce management and policies before users start using the device. In the previous releases, users were able to skip the mandatory enrollment screens and then modify the security settings on the device.
  • Fixes issues with Zero-touch parameters.
  • Optimizes retry logic.
  • Resumes enrollment after restart from where it left off.
  • Centralized error handling
    Error Screen
    • Displays a uniform error screen across all steps in the enrollment flow, with support to Retry and Abort.
    • Returns error messages relevant to the current enrollment step on the enrollment screen.
      Old Screen New Screen
      Old Screen 2 new
    • Displays the enrollment stages with the help of labels or titles, allowing users to easily track the progress of the enrollment. In the previous releases, only a spinning animation was displayed.
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      Note: By default, the enrollment workflow changes are available for Device Admin, Profile Owner, SPS, Device Owner (token-based) enrollments only. Supported only on Android devices running OS version 7 and later.

    • After successful enrollment, if the configured policies have not reached the device, MaaS360 displays the text "Waiting to apply MDM policy" in the MaaS360 Settings > Enforced Policies.

      new enrollment

    Enabling new enrollment workflows changes to other modes of enrollment

    Device Owner (DO) and Work Profile on Corporate Owned (WPCO)

    Add the following key-value pair to the QR code and Zero Touch JSON file when you create the enrollment configuration in the MaaS360 Portal.

    • Key: use_new_enrollment_flow
    • Value: true
    ZT

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Document Information

Modified date:
03 October 2022

UID

ibm16616243