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Recently had the pleasure of attending AirWatch connect at Airwatch offices in Milton Keynes. I was interested to see more about how AirWatch will integrate into the VMware Horizon stack plus get an overview of the product. I haven’t had the chance to work on an MDM project yet but comparing AirWatch to XenMobile just from workshops gives me an initial impression that AirWatch is more configurable than XenMobile (make of that what you will).

I was concerned that AirWatch Connect was more of a sales talk than anything else since most of the audience appeared to be decision makers rather than techies but in the end it was half and half. Fairly useful session and bodes well for the future.

Modernizes Desktop Management. Optimize desktop OS (Windows 10, macOS, Chrome OS) lifecycle management for a mobile world. The most complete, modern management technology simplifies deployment, provides 100% cloud policy management, streamlines app delivery, automates patching and ensures security. Creating an AirWatch Mobile Application Catalog Item. App Portal 2015. When App Portal is connected to an AirWatch instance, you can use the New Catalog Item Wizard to create a mobile application catalog item containing Apple iOS and Google Android mobile apps. All iOS and Android mobile apps configured on the connected AirWatch instance, both internal and public store, can be associated with. Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10 Team (Surface Hub). See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for VMware AirWatch® Agent™.

Anyway here are my notes and thoughts from the session.

Overview

  • Secure Gateway and mobile access gateway – Looking to create one gateway for all VMware products
  • Workspace or MDM restricted enrolment
  • Create custom terms of use for users and devices
  • QNX, Samsung SAFE and KNOX, Amazon Fire and HTC support
  • iOS 8 support
  • AirWatch App Catalog for Mac OS X – filtering Apple App Store
  • Support for Apple DEP (Device Enrolment Program)
  • Volume purchase program allows company to purchase apps from any App Store and allow it to be installed on a managed device.
  • Horizon Workspace apps display in Airwatch App Catalog – available for Android and iOS.
  • Certificate Management – Proxy SCEP enrolment or CSR enrolment.
  • Publish VPN profile to endpoint
  • Asset tracking and all exportable.
  • Remote assistance for all managed devices – interaction depends on OS/device
  • Per device licensing
  • AirWatch Tunnel – VPN tunnel server running on Linux

Android

  • Android MDM agent integrates uses API to integrate – for the 16k Android versions
  • Can auto discover domain allowing easier user enrolment
  • Secured own email container rather than native – can place restrictions on native email but AirWatch inbox is more configurable.

Windows 8.1 – Phone

Catalog
  • Windows 8.1 contains 250 MDM configurations
  • Certificates with TPM – stored into hardware
  • Enrol with no agent – via email
  • Encrypt just enterprise apps and SD card
  • Whitelist/blacklist applications
  • Very configurable and very restrictive – good for on site devices (retail / warehouse / healthcare)

Workspace

  • AirWatch Workspace is not an additional install it’s effectively enabling a feature of the agent
  • Not collecting information but is taking ownership of content
  • Workspace on iOS and Android
  • Complete separate environment

Secure Content Locker (SCL)

  • Dynamic watermark – username for instance. Set in SDK for profile
  • Edit content and save it to a repository
  • Can publish via MAG (Mobile Access Gateway)
  • My Content is users personal area – stored in AirWatch cloud or RFS (Windows Server install)
  • SCL sync for desktop content
  • Share folders with colleagues – collaboration area
  • Flexible content – cloud hybrid and on premise

AirWatch AppShield

  • Source or develop apps with OOBE integration
  • ISV, MADP, RAD and 3rd Party
  • If extracted due to backend (on premise) and security (MAG) application cannot be used

AirWatch Marketplace

  • https://marketplace.air-watch.com/ – integration with existing vendors

Work in Progress

Airwatch Ios App

  • AirWatch chat – Another communication device and will tie into other applications.
  • AirWatch Video – Management of distributed video content

Airwatch App

Hello,


First post here. We are a cyber school and we have a 1:1 iPad program where students use the devices at home. We are required to disable Safari to use a filtering browser. I use Airwatch MDM. They have an app catalog that uses a webclip to launch it. Since Safari is disabled, the webclip won't launch as it looks for Safari when you attempt to open it. I know that Apple won't budge on the default browser thing.


Our solution was to create an internal app that simply pointed the URL of the app catalog to the internal app itself, bypassing Safari. That won't work for some reason. It has opened a few times, but for the most part, it just won't launch or it crashes immediately. AW support isn't much of a help on this one.


Bottom line is that I'd like to find a way to deploy and manage apps (free and paid) where we don't have to manually install each app on each device.


Anyone in a similar situation? If we were a brick and mortar school, it would be simple - Safari enabled, but behind our firewall. Being a cyber school changes everything because we have constant challenges that B&M don't have to deal with.


Thanks!

Samsung Airwatch App

iPad 2, iOS 5.1.1

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