What is mobile device management for Microsoft 365
Mobile devices play a huge role in helping employees work from anywhere by allowing them to access files, emails, contacts, and more. Allowing employees to use company-owned mobile devices for work purposes may mean allowing employees to access files, emails, contacts, and more from External networks access resources, making it difficult for IT teams to maintain data security.
The Mobile Device Management (MDM) feature in Microsoft 365 is a great solution to help reduce this complexity of mobile devices. Microsoft 365 Device Management allows administrators to monitor, protect, and secure their organization's devices across a variety of devices. resources and data.
Microsoft 365's MDM capabilities can:
- Protect mobile devices in your organization by forcing encryption to enable and disable screenshots and forcing users to use a code to unlock screenshots.
- Wipe all data from the device when security measures require it.
Easily manage mobile devices
After enabling mobile device management for Microsoft 365, your organization may need reports and perform some tasks on various aspects of device management, which is where M365 Manager Plus comes in. M365 Manager Plus provides various reporting and management tasks related to Microsoft 365 device management.
When it comes to Exchange Online, users may use various devices to access Exchange Online mailboxes through the Outlook mobile app. With M365 Manager Plus, administrators can clear data on the mobile device or completely delete the user device associated with Exchange Online.
M365 Manager Plus provides a task list for mobile device management for Microsoft 365:
- Clear mobile device data
- Remove mobile device
In the "Clear mobile device data" management task, you can choose to notify the mailbox associated with the device after the mobile device data is wiped. You can clear data from a single device before applying the task, or you can select multiple devices to clear data. In the "Delete Mobile Devices" management task, you can delete mobile devices in bulk that are synchronized with user mailboxes in your organization.
Reporting for mobile device management
M365 Manager Plus also provides various reports to help administrators better understand different aspects of Microsoft 365 device management.
| Report | describe |
|---|---|
| mobile device | Show all mobile devices used to access Microsoft 365 mailboxes |
| Mobile Devices by Operating System | Shows the operating system running the mobile device |
| Mobile devices by policy | Show policies applied to mobile devices |
| Mobile devices by manufacturer | Show the manufacturer of your mobile device |
| Device policy application status | Displays the policies applied to mobile devices and the application status of those policies |
| client mobile device | Display client type for mobile devices |
| Folders synced by device | Shows the number of folders synced via Active Sync per mobile device |
| Devices by access status | Show all mobile devices and their access status |
| Inactive mobile device | Display all mobile devices and their last directory synchronization time |
| Active mobile devices | Shows all mobile devices and their linked active mailboxes |
Mobile device management reporting capabilities
- From Report Management : After generating any of these reports, the Clear Mobile Data and Delete Mobile Device Management tasks can be performed from the report page itself, which is a great advantage if you only want to perform tasks for certain devices, you can also use the above The name and details of any report filtering devices.
- Export reports : These reports can be exported to various formats such as CSV, PDF, HTML, and XML.
- Scheduled Reports : M365 Manager Plus also allows scheduling reports so that they are generated at regular intervals of your choice.
- Mail reports : Mail these reports to administrators in PDF, HTML, CSV or XML formats, and even use notification templates when sending emails.
- View reports : Use printable view to preview reports before printing them for future use.
- Customize reports : Columns can be added or removed from the report as needed, and even after the report is generated, filter options can be used to further filter out the results. For example, in the Mobile Devices report, you can narrow the results by filtering to only devices of a specific device type.
Easily generate reports, manage objects in bulk, perform audits, and monitor your Microsoft 365 services with M365 Manager Plus .