Core 11.3.0.0 new features and enhancements

This guide documents the following new features and enhancements:

• New Managed App settings: For your convenience, the fields in the App Catalog > Managed App Settings has been updated. The new fields are:

  • Send installation request on device registration or sign in

  • Send installation request to quarantine devices

  • Send convert unmanaged to managed app request on device registration or sign-in (iOS 9 or later)

  • Send convert unmanaged to managed app request for quarantine devices (iOS 9 or later)

  An example use of these settings: when a device user converts an Microsoft Office 365 app from unmanaged to managed, Microsoft Intune App Protection is not applied. This leads to violation of company-set rules about printing a Microsoft Word document.

  Applicable for public and in-house apps. For more information see Populating the iOS and macOS App Catalogs and Unmanaged to managed app conversion on iOS devices in the Core Apps@Work Guide.

• HTTP Basic Authentication for Apps@Work deprecated in favor of Certificate Authentication: In the Core 11.3.0.0 Apps > Apps@Work Settings page, the App Storefront Authentication settings box no longer displays. Certificate-based authentication is required for Apps@Work 11.3.0.0, and is enabled by default. For more information about Certificate-based authentication for AppConnect, see Setting authentication options for Apps@Work for iOS devices.

• Apple Business Manager now has Shared iPad device capability: If you have an Apple Business Manager account loaded in Core, you can enable Shared iPad devices between multiple employees. Employees sign in with a Managed Apple ID and their mail, files, iCloud Photo Library, app data, etc displays in their partition of the Shared iPad. This is useful for a frontline workforce, for example, a hospital environment, without compromising your organization's security and data.

  Requirements of Shared iPad devices in Apple Business Manager:

  • An Apple Business Manager account.

  • Managed Apple ID - Admins can manually create these accounts or federate to an identity provider like Azure Active Directory.

  • Shared iPad devices must have at least 32 GB of storage and be supervised.

  Only Apple-licensed apps are sent to Shared iPad devices through registration. Only Apple-licensed apps are sent to Shared iPad devices through registration. This is set up in the Send Installation Request on device registration or sign in option in the App Catalog. For more information, see Using the wizard to import iOS apps from the Apple App Storeand Apple license use.

  • Administrators can set the Shared iPad device sessions based on user login or guest / temporary logins.

  • Administrators can see the Shared iPad device session information in the Device Details page. For more information, see "Advanced searching" in the Core Device Management Guide for iOS and macOS Devices.

  • Administrators can set Compliance policy rules for Shared iPad devices. See "Custom compliance policies" in the Core Device Management Guide for iOS and macOS Devices.

  For full information on Shared iPad devices, see "Shared iPaddevices with Apple Business Manager" in the Core Device Management Guide for iOS and macOS Devices.

• Managed App Config updated to include Shared iPad device labels: Two new labels have been added to the Managed App Config dialog box: Allow only Temporary Session and Set Timeout for User Session - Seconds. For more information, see "Configuring the Managed App Config setting" in the Core Device Management Guide for iOS and macOS Devices.

• Substitution variable support for Shared iPad devices added: Where applicable, support for user substitution variables on user channel for Shared iPad devices. Administrators will need to use $Managed_Apple_ID$ in place of, for example, User Name and Email. This is applicable to User Email, User Name (incoming) & Server User Name (outgoing)

  For more information, see Substitution variables for configuring iOS apps and "Enabling Shared iPad devices for Apple Business Manager" in the Core Device Management Guide for iOS and macOS Devices.