Enforcing Android Screen Lock PINs on Corporate-Owned Devices
Question
Hi All,
Hi Guys
Regarding the enforcement of Android screen lock PINs.
We have devices enrolled as Corporate-owned, fully managed user devices. Historically, they had the PIN set as 1212. For example, we need all the devices to change their PINs. Is there a simple way to do this in a Device restriction policy?
I can set up a Configuration profile to make the PIN a minimum of 6 digits, however, this does not enforce it, it only shows that the devices with 4 digit PIN have errors. I can set PIN expiration to 1 day to enforce the change, however, some devices may to be seen for weeks at a time, so that would not work.
This is the error for my device, which has a 1212 PIN
Posted By Peter Duncan in HTMD FB Group
Answers ( 3 )
Replied by Peter Duncan
This is the policy that I created.
Replied by Peter Duncan
Marty James, I will look at that next week. I only have one mobile to test with, so one policy at a time!
Replied by Vitalij Charitonov
Do you have a policy set for user groups or device groups?
Replied by John Omar Pol
Have you checked your device compliance?
Replied by Engr Samer Almur
Peter Duncan, your policy says a minimum of 6 digits, but your Android has 4 digits. Of course, you get these errors, buddy
Replied by Marty James
I found that it wouldn’t force the change on existing devices (new devices are fine).
You’ll need a compliance policy to somewhat force the user, but again they don’t HAVE to change it (unless you set your compliance policy to block access if not compliant :)).
So I would create a compliance policy to require 6 digits.
Replied by Peter Duncan
Marty James, I did that yesterday, and it pushes notifications and sends emails. Seems to work a treat.
However, they also have devices in ‘Corporate-owned dedicated devices. ‘ I will investigate how I can deal with those, as they are useless.
Replied by Peter Duncan
Marty James, and they are all remote from me!
Corporate-owned, fully managed user device – 41 Devices
Corporate-owned dedicated devices – 73 devices.
Replied by Marty James
Peter Duncan yeah I think you’ll need to physically update those….happy to be proven wrong