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Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

In my last job I installed Outlook on my personal phone to access my work calendar conveniently. Found out from a colleague that if the admin for an Outlook server you’re signed into on any device fucks up badly enough you could end up having that device completely wiped so I promptly uninstalled it.

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Rin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
here’s some advice from me. Outlook is completely usable from a web browser. This includes phone browsers… just use that if you need your emails on your personal phone.

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NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, you’re talking about MDM (Mobile Device Management) solutions/tech. I’m not an IT employee myself, but I am familiar with these things from work (similar situation as yours), and also because I’m a nerd and like researching these things.

On some phones, like Samsung’s (“Secure Folder”), you can have [essentially] a second, containerized instance of Android running. Or you can think of it like a virtual second user that ultimately you have control of. So what I did was install Outlook in that. Because the MDM permissions (e.g. wipe the phone) would only affect that container.

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- trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My understanding is that it’s called work profile. It’s like having 2 users in the same phone. One is personal and you manage it. The other is company owned and you can only install apps whitelisted by your it admin.
  
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  - max_dryzen@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    this is still objectionable
    
    why does my employer presume it can commander my personal property? the only sound policy is to never let work stuff touch personal computers and vice versa. The workplace is like a gas, if you give it the empty space it will keep expanding to fill it
    
    where the hell did my property rights go once one of my PCs got a radio?
    
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- octobob@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’d love to keep outlook off my personal phone but there’s no chance I’m getting a company phone considering I’m a shop employee and everything in it is an afterthought for IT. Like our computers still run windows 7.
  
  Unfortunately I need email to do my job, on a ping system for what to test and general communications with coworkers who are often not there or traveling in the field.
  
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  - NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s fair. I should have said *if you can help it.
    
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- OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Just to expand on this. There is an Exchange specific wipe feature. I think it is quite old school and not really used. Have seen it, but never tested it myself. As per documentation it can perform device wipe, but only if native mail client using ActiveSync is used not Outlook. And it probably does not work with all native mail clients, depends if app has device admin permissions.
  
  Current Intune MDM model always uses separate Android storage so any operation including wipe will affect only this storage not your personal space so employer can not see nor delete your personal data.
  
  In Intune there is another option without a need of enrolling device (MDM) where you can manage supported apps. It’s called MAM. If wipe is initiated it affects only data in all apps that support MAM.
  
  In short, companies / schools cannot really wipe your device if we are talking about Intune MDM. Other MDM solutions probably can.
  
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  - brognak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Activesync
    
    Now, that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.
    
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