Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Richard Ivan June

Peter J Kaufman

Yuhang Zhu

Shayak Lahiri

Sean Anderson Bowles

Gaurav Raghu Dhawan

Moiz Z Rassiwala

Daniel S Dudugjian

Adeep Singh Cheema

Rama Krishna Samudrala

Jitendrakumar G Koshti

Janani Vasudevan

Justin Alexander Hou

Feng Yue

Vladimir Holostov

Preston Derek Adam

Narendra Shripati Acharya

Violet Anna Barhudarian

John Chadwell Spaith

Javier Novales

Qiongzhi Wu

Narendra S Acharya

Embodiments described herein are directed to implementing compliance settings by a computing device for bringing the computing device into compliance with a configuration scenario. For instance, a computing device may receive, from a server, configuration information describing compliance settings for implementing by the computing device to bring the computing device into compliance with a configuration scenario. Moreover, the computing device may identify a state machine indicated by the configuration information that describes a configuration process for implementing the compliance settings and execute the state machine to configure the computing device with the compliance settings.

Implementation of compliance settings by a mobile device for compliance with a configuration scenario

Embodiments described herein are directed to managing device compliance for devices that are connected to an enterprise network. For example, a mobile device manager may provide configuration settings to a computing device, which implements the settings in order to be compliant with an enterprise's data and/or security policy. The mobile device manager also maintains a local reference of each device's configuration settings implemented thereby. When the mobile device manager subsequently performs a determination as to whether the computing device is still in compliance, the mobile device manager simply needs to refer to the local reference to determine the computing device's settings instead of explicitly querying the computing device for its settings. The foregoing techniques may be extended for security baseline compliance determinations, IoT device compliance determinations and compliance determinations for other types of devices, such as devices utilized by business partners of the enterprise that utilize the enterprise's network.

Queryless device configuration determination-based techniques for mobile device management

Various technologies described herein pertain to managing multiple enrollments of a computing device into configuration sources. Respective enrollment types for the enrollments into the configuration sources can be detected. Moreover, respective control data for the enrollments into the configuration sources can be set based on the enrollment types. Provisioning elements (e.g., policies, preferences, configuration profiles, and resources) that satisfy the respective control data can be permitted to be applied to the computing device by the configuration sources as part of the enrollments. Further, disparate provisioning elements that fail to satisfy the respective control data can be prevented from being applied to the computing device as part of the enrollments.

Multi-enrollments of a computing device into configuration sources

A system may delegate authority to manage aspects of a security policy developed by administrative personnel to standard users (e.g. non-administrative personnel) corresponding to managed accounts within an administrative hierarchy. An exemplary security policy may include application management settings that allow or deny individual applications with access to various enterprise resources. The system may expose one or more user interfaces to standard users of an enterprise network to enable these standard users to modify the security policy being deployed for their managed account and/or to at least temporarily exempt a particular application from the enterprise's security policy. For example, upon a standard user attempting to access enterprise data with a particular application that is not permitted such access, the system may enable this standard user to change the security policy as applied to her device or to simply exempt the particular application from the security policy.

Delegating security policy management authority to managed accounts

A facility for maintaining the state of a managed device is described. The facility receives an indication that the managed device is to be unenrolled from management. In response to receiving the indication, during a first time period, the facility performs a first unenrollment task with respect to the managed device. In response to receiving indication, during a second time period that does not intersect the first time period, performing a second unenrollment task with respect to the managed device that is distinct from the first unenrollment task.

Persistent unenrollment for devices under management

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