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Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

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Work are asking me to install Intune and a Power App for some new communication system they want to use. I've said I'm not happy to install that on my personal device, mainly because if I remember correctly Intune requests permission to wipe the device if it thinks there's a security exploit.

Do any of you use Intune? Am I remembering correctly?
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Work are asking me to install Intune and a Power App for some new communication system they want to use. I've said I'm not happy to install that on my personal device, mainly because if I remember correctly Intune requests permission to wipe the device if it thinks there's a security exploit.

Do any of you use Intune? Am I remembering correctly?
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Depends entirely on if the devices are being enrolled using corporate or personal profiles. A personal profile has less access and can typically only wipe the profiles associated with the corporate environment (so control to wipe an Exchange mailbox for example).

Ask to see your company’s BYOD policy, if it doesn’t outline what is and isn’t in scope then I’d not be too happy about installing.
 
Intune will sandbox your work enviroment on your personal device and only wipe the sandboxed applications. As above ask to check the BYOD policy but this is normally the way its set out
 
HungryHippos said:
Personally I don't use my own personal device with work applications, not really any good reason to do so.
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It's interesting, because I have a work phone and would rather not. I'd prefer to have a work SIM (my phone is dual SIM) with an ability access Teams and Outlook from my personal device. Carrying extra phones, charging them and updating them is a pain.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
It's interesting, because I have a work phone and would rather not. I'd prefer to have a work SIM (my phone is dual SIM) with an ability access Teams and Outlook from my personal device. Carrying extra phones, charging them and updating them is a pain.
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Yeah, this. Although if a company expects you to be available out-of-hours and needs to provide you with a phone, then you should get the best of both worlds which is they provide you with a device that just so happens to be dual sim! I hate having two phones, unfortunately my company's security policy does not allow Android phones and I'm sure as heck not moving my personal stuff over to Apple :(
 
Burnsy2023 said:
It's interesting, because I have a work phone and would rather not. I'd prefer to have a work SIM (my phone is dual SIM) with an ability access Teams and Outlook from my personal device. Carrying extra phones, charging them and updating them is a pain.
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Same,

I have a "work phone" - never understand why anyone wants to have two phones. What i did is just throw the work phone in a drawer and use the company SIM in my own choice of phone which i would buy anyway. Nice bonus to doing this is the completely free unlimited sim card.
 
Thanks for replies so far. What's annoying me with this is that they're just trying to create a facility to share company updates, so I don't see why they can't just leave it as an email distribution facility. I think it's a bit of a stretch to expect us to install 3 apps on our personal phone (Intune, Authenticator & PowerApp) just so we can receive push messages about how Juan in accounts in our Bangladesh office has retired after 27 years with the company.
 
Jez said:
Same,

I have a "work phone" - never understand why anyone wants to have two phones. What i did is just throw the work phone in a drawer and use the company SIM in my own choice of phone which i would buy anyway. Nice bonus to doing this is the completely free unlimited sim card.
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It depends somewhat on what is expected from a 'work phone' - if it's just a phone and an email client and you can easily turn that side of it off outside of working hours, that's tolerable. My work seems to be attempting to turn everything in sight into 'an app' and my work phone is becoming increasingly full of apps to do this that or the other and I have absolutely zero interest in filling my personal phone up with the volume of garbage they want installed, even if it's in a 'work' profile.
 
Does Company Portal need to be configured, or is it only there as a bridge?

If your company are using APP and MAM for App level management then at the moment Android phones need Company Portal present, but not configured (iOS uses Authenticator, which makes much more sense). Means that data in the specific apps is protected and managed rather than the entire device.
 
Kenai said:
It depends somewhat on what is expected from a 'work phone' - if it's just a phone and an email client and you can easily turn that side of it off outside of working hours, that's tolerable. My work seems to be attempting to turn everything in sight into 'an app' and my work phone is becoming increasingly full of apps to do this that or the other and I have absolutely zero interest in filling my personal phone up with the volume of garbage they want installed, even if it's in a 'work' profile.
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Yeah true, mine is just a phone and a means to have teams and email on the go, and also to cover us for situations whereby we'd need to tether etc. No excuses for not being contactable and all of that. Whether this is on one phone or two matters not to me - i'll reply if i have to either way.
 
Jez said:
Yeah true, mine is just a phone and a means to have teams and email on the go, and also to cover us for situations whereby we'd need to tether etc. No excuses for not being contactable and all of that. Whether this is on one phone or two matters not to me - i'll reply if i have to either way.
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Yeah this is pretty much my attitude, at my old place i chucked the work phone in a drawer for 4 years and just gave out my personal number, same with my current place.

Although maybe different for some people, the only people who i really ring/ring me are close colleagues and we generally use Teams for that anyway. It's more just that it's handy for dealing with time differences as i'd never see anything from the US guys with a designated work phone and at least this way i can deal with it if it can't wait.
 
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