
If you are working for a company that employs more than a handful of people and use a company smartphone or tablet, chances are that the device is owned and ‘managed’ by the company. ‘Managed’ basically means that the company uses a remote Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution that hooks into a management API of the smartphone. The same applies to notebooks as well, but I want to focus on mobile devices in this post. While the concept was clear to me in theory, the practical aspects of this have always been a bit vague, as I’m not working in an IT department that ‘manages’ remote devices. Recently, however, I came across an MDM solution that offers a free trial account. So I jumped at the chance and became a ‘Device Overlord’ for a day to see just how much can be controlled remotely and how the device enrollment process works.
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