How to publish an app to customer’s Managed Play Store with Android Enterprise

As more organizations migrate to Android Enterprise (in light of Device Admin deprecation), I get this question more and more often from customers, partners, colleagues and developers alike. The model of application publishing with Managed Play Store is different than it previously was with Internal Apps. While Google has official documentation, many people still stumble...

Watch your certificates when working with Apple devices!

A while ago a colleague turned to me for help. Customer tested iOS, Android and Win10 with a SCEP server. Win10 and Android had no issues, but on iOS the certificates failed to install with a cryptic error. I decided to write a blog about it, because I expect a second wave of such issues...

Click-to-Call – a new nifty feature for Android and Chrome

I discussed this by accident today, it's pretty simple and cool. When you click a telephone number of a webpage in Chrome (tel:XXX URL) on PC, you will get a popup offering you to call from your phone. The picture below explains it all, using VMware's phone number in Germany. You get a toast notification...

Zoom vs Teams – security options

Zoom banned? Think Teams is better? Show this to your boss.

RIP AirWatch Container – move to Hub Registered Mode

Yesterday, the end of general support announcement for AW Container (the app) was posted in VMware KB effective as of August 9 2020. This is a long expected move, but I know that there are still customers out there using it on unmanaged devices for MAM only mode. What can they do to replace the...

Limiting users that can log into a Win10 PC using Restricted Groups CSP

The title says it for itself. It is a useful capability for shared workstations and other scenarios, where the PC access needs to be limited. The credit goes to this blog post on EMM.how, you can read it for full details and pictures I just want to make a few points that I've taken out...

Simplifying LetsEncrypt on Windows – CryptLE automation

In this post we will talk about using the CryptLE on Windows to quickly generate and renew certificates for your virtual appliances with LetsEncrypt (which was not originally designed to provide certificates for virtual appliances). Preface Being a cheap smart person that I am, I run my small cloud setup (Domain + SSL) completely for...

VMware Launcher on Android Enterprise – nuances

I regularly get questions from customers and partners who used kiosk mode on older Device Admin devices with VMware (then AirWatch) Launcher, and have issues since they had migrated to Android Enterprise and Launcher 4.0+. In this post you will learn how to: Solve the most frequent (and annoying) issue when migrating Launcher setups to...

Remediate the Pixel4 and Galaxy S10 biometric security flaws with Workspace ONE

I am pretty sure you've heard already about the issues with Samsung Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor and Google Pixel 4 Face Unlock. Both companies have acknowledged the issues and committed to releasing the patches "soon" (Samsung is said to be testing fixes in certain countries already). What can you in the meantime? With Workspace ONE...