Just put your work apps in your Work profile.
That’s exactly why Android has this function, so they can only remotely access/wipe that profile.
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finestnothing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fun fact! If you have outlook on your phone with a work account added, chances are IT has admin access to your phone and can remotely wipe it at any time. Also means that your phone can be collected as evidence if you or the company is involved in a court case possibly related to emails
Rootiest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
My school required this. They forced me to grant the Outlook app admin access to my phone in order to be able to add my school email in the app.
Exusia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To reset a password for work. Apparently eHub doesnt work on Firefox, it has to be edge or chrome. Called the Help Center and they asked if I was using chrome and I said no Firefox. “You don’t uh…have anything like chrome on your phone?” “no, I might be able to access a work computer with chrome but I’m not putting a chromium browser on my device” (it’s there because android, but all its permissions are cut off)
She just had to sit on hold while I logged on on a work computer to reset everything where if they just fucking made a webpage to work on Firefox we could have not had the conversation in the first place.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Ok I’ve tested this with some users that definitely do have their work emails on their private phones and I can’t see what this setting is. Are you sure about this, it seems super dodgy?
tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Modern way of doing it is via intune: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/…/devices-wipe
You can force registration of the device before they can access the environment, and you can enforce all sorts of things.
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 year ago
This is device management and isn’t something that is the default, or comes with Outlook.
A less intrusive method is application management which gives the company control to wipe the account, not the device.
tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well yeah, but the question was about wiping the device not the account.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Doesn’t that create an isolated admin environment I don’t think it gives me access to their personal stuff.
tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you set up intune correctly (and its a requirement) you can prevent access to the entire of m365 including outlook unless they register their device and you can use allow lists for users who are approved to use their own devices, or just block them full stop while allowing company phones access.
If yours isn’t requiring registration, then its not setup to do so, you can very much enforce it, this is usually done via conditional access requiring that the device is registered before it can get access.
Often admins also forget to block web access from mobile devices, but that’s also blockable via the conditional access settings (and other ways, but conditional is how I would do it). Its not perfect as its using the user agent, which can be spoofed. Personally if the client needs that level of protection then web access should just be blocked for non company devices.
You can enforce that the company is added as a device manager, that’s usually how the device wipe is enforced. Access to personal data isn’t really what you are granting here, it is the ability to remote wipe the entire device.
Its a proper device management system with a ton of options. You can for example force users to only use an approved list of applications on their own device for company data.