Silent Deployment and Hostnaming
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Nyall Wilson
We have a business that is largely iOS and Android, making up for 60% of the devices we manage. Androids we have issues that when deploying via intune it requires the end user to turn on the app to get DNS filtering running which in a corporate setting is not ideal, we have engineers that wont turn this on they just take the device and use them, a workaround as the moment is when we do a device handover there is a ticksheet saying they've turned it on. We've controlled removing the vpn etc so thats fine its that initial turn on thats problematic. The same is the case with iOS which ive done less testing for. Android also has a unique issue iOS doesnt that we cant set a hostname for the device without doing so via manual registration, and then DNSFilter gives the device an arbitrary hostname with metadata that does not relate at all to the device info on the device nor in intune.
Minetta Gould
🎉 Good news — as of iOS agent version 1.4.4, automatic activation is now supported! The app will start DNS filtering without requiring manual activation from the end user, making MDM deployments via Intune much smoother.
Check out the [changelog])https://dnsfilter.canny.io/changelog/7-14-july-14-ios-roaming-client-v144) for details.
We'll update this post again when there's news to share on the Android side too. Thanks for the patience! 🙌