

This may impact downstream systems that rely on these values in the subject and SAN of certificates. Certificates will fail to deploy if you use serial number, IMEI, or MEID variables in the subject and SAN of the certificate profile and the value is not populated.Serial number and IMEI can no longer be used to identify devices as corporate.Serial number, IMEI, MEID and will no longer be visible in the Endpoint Manager admin center.The removal affects the following workflows in the Endpoint Manager admin center for personally-owned Android Enterprise with work profile devices running Android 12: For more information, see the Google developer documentation.

The impacted hardware identifiers are serial number, IMEI, and MEID. Google is removing the ability for apps to access hardware identifiers on personally-owned work profile devices. Removal of serial number, IMEI, and MEID on personally-owned work profile devices Keep us posted on what APP and MDM learnings you find from your beta testing too! We also encourage you to read through Google’s Android 12 change documentation to identify other changes that may be relevant to your organization. However, Google is making some significant changes in Android 12 that affect management capabilities available to Intune.Īs we approach the official release of Android 12 later in the year (historically the major Android OS releases are often in late Q3/early Q4 of the calendar year), we will continue to update this blog post as we discover new items in our beta testing. Most APP and MDM scenarios will continue to be fully compatible with Android 12. Our Microsoft Endpoint Manager app protection policy (APP) and mobile device management (MDM) teams have been hard at work making sure Microsoft Intune customers are supported on the new OS release. In this post, we’ll highlight some noteworthy changes that you should be aware of, and we’ll share some of what we’ve found from testing the latest beta builds of Android. Updated 11/10: We updated this post to include newly identified impact from the removal of Wi-Fi MAC address.Īndroid 12 was announced at Google I/O 2021 in May of this year, promising significant overhauls of the Android platform from design to privacy.
