This affects fully managed, dedicated, and corporate-owned work profile devices.
Google has documented they are deprecating the Safe boot and Debugging features configuration settings for Android Enterprise device restrictions at the end of October. Reminder about upcoming changes to Android Enterprise fully managed, dedicated, and corporate-owned work profile devices When apps target API level 30, Android prevents them from collecting the MAC address used by the device.
This may impact the ability of newly enrolled devices to connect to a corporate network. Devices enrolled prior to the October Company Portal release are not impacted.Ĭause of impact: In October, there will be a Company Portal app update that increases the Company Portal API targeting from level 29 to level 30, as required by Google. Network access control and third-party VPN solutions that rely or fall back on MAC addresses as device identifiers will not be able to retrieve the device MAC address. Starting in October, Intune will not display a Wi-Fi MAC address for newly enrolled personally-owned work profile devices and devices managed with device administrator running Android 9 and above. Removal of Wi-Fi MAC address on newly-enrolled device administrator and personally-owned work profile devices
More information can be found here: Support Tip: Android 12 upgrade can affect NAC-enabled network access. This may impact the ability of enrolled devices to connect to a corporate network.
Certificates will fail to deploy if you use serial number, IMEI, or MEID variables in the subject and SAN of the certificate profile and the value is not populated.
For more information, see the Google developer documentation. The impacted hardware identifiers are serial number, IMEI, and MEID. Google is removing the ability for apps to access hardware identifiers on personally-owned work profile devices. Removal of serial number, IMEI, and MEID on personally-owned work profile devices Keep us posted on what APP and MDM learnings you find from your beta testing too! We also encourage you to read through Google’s Android 12 change documentation to identify other changes that may be relevant to your organization. However, Google is making some significant changes in Android 12 that affect management capabilities available to Intune.Īs we approach the official release of Android 12 later in the year (historically the major Android OS releases are often in late Q3/early Q4 of the calendar year), we will continue to update this blog post as we discover new items in our beta testing. Most APP and MDM scenarios will continue to be fully compatible with Android 12. Our Microsoft Endpoint Manager app protection policy (APP) and mobile device management (MDM) teams have been hard at work making sure Microsoft Intune customers are supported on the new OS release. In this post, we’ll highlight some noteworthy changes that you should be aware of, and we’ll share some of what we’ve found from testing the latest beta builds of Android. Updated 11/10: We updated this post to include newly identified impact from the removal of Wi-Fi MAC address.Īndroid 12 was announced at Google I/O 2021 in May of this year, promising significant overhauls of the Android platform from design to privacy.