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Articles
2025
- The Android Management API doesn't support pulling managed properties (config) from app tracks. Here's how to work around it
- Hands-on with CVE-2025-22442, a work profile sideloading vulnerability affecting most Android devices today
- AAB support for private apps in the managed Google Play iFrame is coming, take a first look here
- What's new (so far) for enterprise in Android 16
2024
- Android 15: What's new for enterprise?
- How Goto's acquisition of Miradore is eroding a once-promising MDM solution
- Google Play Protect no longer sends sideloaded applications for scanning on enterprise-managed devices
- Mobile Pros is moving to Discord
- Avoid another CrowdStrike takedown: Two approaches to replacing Windows
- Introducing MANAGED SETTINGS
- I'm joining NinjaOne
- Samsung announces Knox SDK restrictions for Android 15
- What's new (so far) for enterprise in Android 15
- Google quietly introduces new quotas for unvalidated AMAPI use
- What is Play Auto Install (PAI) in Android and how does it work?
- AMAPI publicly adds support for DPC migration
- How do Android devices become certified?
2023
- Mute @channel & @here notifications in Slack
- A guide to raising better support requests
- Ask Jason: How should we manage security and/or OS updates for our devices?
- Pixel 8 series launches with 7 years of software support
- Android's work profile behaviour has been reverted in 14 beta 5.3
- Fairphone raises the bar with commitment to Android updates
- Product files: The DoorDash T8
- Android's work profile gets a major upgrade in 14
- Google's inactive account policy may not impact Android Enterprise customers
- Product files: Alternative form factors and power solutions
- What's new in Android 14 for enterprise
- Introducing Micro Mobility
- Android Enterprise: A refresher
2022
- What I'd like to see from Android Enterprise in 2023
- Thoughts on Android 12's password complexity changes
- Google Play target API requirements & impact on enterprise applications
- Sunsetting Discuss comment platform
- Google publishes differences between Android and Android Go
- Android Go & EMM support
- Relaunching bayton.org
- AER dropped the 3/5 year update mandate with Android 11, where are we now?
- I made a bet with Google (and lost)
2020
- Product files: Building Android devices
- Google announce big changes to zero-touch
- VMware announces end of support for Device Admin
- Google launch the Android Enterprise Help Community
- Watch: An Android Enterprise discussion with Hypergate
- Listen again: BM podcast #144 - Jason Bayton & Russ Mohr talk Android!
- Google's Android Management API will soon support COPE
- Android Enterprise in 11: Google reduces visibility and control with COPE to bolster privacy.
- The decade that redefined Android in the enterprise
2019
- Why Intune doesn't support Android Enterprise COPE
- VMware WS1 UEM 1908 supports Android Enterprise enrolments on closed networks and AOSP devices
- The Bayton 2019 Android Enterprise experience survey
- Android Enterprise Partner Summit 2019 highlights
- The Huawei ban and Enterprise: what now?
- Dabbling with Android Enterprise in Q beta 3
- Why I moved from Google WiFi to Netgear Orbi
- I'm joining Social Mobile as Director of Android Innovation
- Android Enterprise in Q/10: features and clarity on DA deprecation
- MWC 2019: Mid-range devices excel, 5G everything, form-factors galore and Android Enterprise
- UEM tools managing Android-powered cars
- Joining the Android Enterprise Experts community
- February was an interesting month for OEMConfig
- Google launch Android Enterprise Recommended for Managed Service Providers
- Migrating from Windows 10 Mobile? Here's why you should consider Android
- AER expands: Android Enterprise Recommended for EMMs
- What I'd like to see from Android Enterprise in 2019
2018
- My top Android apps in 2018
- Year in review: 2018
- MobileIron Cloud R58 supports Android Enterprise fully managed devices with work profiles
- Hands on with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro
- Workspace ONE UEM 1810 introduces support for Android Enterprise fully managed devices with work profiles
- G Suite no longer prevents Android data leakage by default
- Live: Huawei Mate series launch
- How to sideload the Digital Wellbeing beta on Pie
- How to manually update the Nokia 7 Plus to Android Pie
- Hands on with the BQ Aquaris X2 Pro
- Hands on with Sony OEMConfig
- The state of Android Enterprise in 2018
- BYOD & Privacy: Don’t settle for legacy Android management in 2018
- Connecting two Synologies via SSH using public and private key authentication
- How to update Rsync on Mac OS Mojave and High Sierra
- Intune gains support for Android Enterprise COSU deployments
- Android Enterprise Recommended: HMD Global launch the Nokia 3.1 and Nokia 5.1
- Android Enterprise Partner Summit 2018 highlights
- Live: MobileIron LIVE! 2018
- Android Enterprise first: AirWatch 9.4 lands with a new name and focus
- Live: Android Enterprise Partner Summit 2018
- Samsung, Oreo and an inconsistent Android Enterprise UX
- MobileIron launch Android Enterprise work profiles on fully managed devices
- Android P demonstrates Google's focus on the enterprise
- An introduction to managed Google Play
- MWC 2018: Android One, Oreo Go, Android Enterprise Recommended & Android Enterprise
- Enterprise ready: Google launch Android Enterprise Recommended
2017
- Year in review: 2017
- Google is deprecating device admin in favour of Android Enterprise
- Hands on with the Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact
- Moto C Plus giveaway
- The state of Android Enterprise in 2017
- Samsung launched a Note 8 for enterprise
- MobileIron officially supports Android Enterprise QR code provisioning
- Android zero-touch enrolment has landed
- MobileIron unofficially supports QR provisioning for Android Enterprise work-managed devices, this is how I found it
- Hands on with the Nokia 3
- Experimenting with clustering and data replication in Nextcloud with MariaDB Galera and SyncThing
- Introducing documentation on bayton.org
- Goodbye Alexa, Hey Google: Hands on with the Google Home
- Restricting access to Exchange ActiveSync
- What is Mobile Device Management?
- 8 tips for a successful EMM deployment
- Long-term update: the fitlet-RM, a fanless industrial mini PC by Compulab
- First look: the FreedomPop V7
- Vault7 and the CIA: This is why we need EMM
- What is Android Enterprise (Android for Work) and why is it used?
- Introducing night mode on bayton.org
- What is iOS Supervision and why is it used?
- Hands on with the Galaxy TabPro S
- Introducing Nextcloud demo servers
- Part 4 - Project Obsidian: Obsidian is dead, long live Obsidian
2016
- My top Android apps 2016
- Hands on with the Linx 12V64
- Wandera review 2016: 2 years on
- Deploying MobileIron 9.1+ on KVM
- Hands on with the Nextcloud Box
- How a promoted tweet landed me on Finnish national news
- Using RWG Mobile for simple, cross-device centralised voicemail
- Part 3 – Project Obsidian: A change, data migration day 1 and build day 2
- Hands on: fitlet-RM, a fanless industrial mini PC by Compulab
- Part 2 - Project Obsidian: Build day 1
- Part 1 - Project Obsidian: Objectives & parts list
- Part 0 - Project Obsidian: Low power NAS & container server
- 5 Android apps improving my Chromebook experience
- First look: Android apps on ChromeOS
- Competition: Win 3 months of free VPS/Container hosting - Closed!
- ElasticHosts review
- ElasticHosts: Cloud Storage vs Folders, what's the difference?
- Adding bash completion to LXD
- Android N: First look & hands-on
- Springs.io - Container hosting at container prices
- Apple vs the FBI: This is why we need MDM
- Miradore Online MDM: Expanding management with subscriptions
- Lenovo Yoga 300 (11IBY) hard drive upgrade
- I bought a Lenovo Yoga 300, this is why I'm sending it back
- Restricting access to Exchange ActiveSync
- Switching to HTTPS on WordPress
2015
2014
- Is CYOD the answer to the BYOD headache?
- BYOD Management: Yes, we can wipe your phone
- A fortnight with Android Wear: LG G Watch review
- First look: Miradore Online free MDM
- Hands on: A weekend with Google Glass
- A month with Wandera Mobile Gateway
- Final thoughts: Dell Venue Pro 11 (Atom)
- Thoughts on BYOD
- Will 2014 bring better battery life?
- My year in review: Bayton.org
- The best purchase I've ever made? A Moto G for my father
2013
2012
- My Top Android Apps 12/12
- The Nexus 7 saga: Resolved
- Recycling Caps Lock into something useful - Ubuntu (12.04)
- The Nexus 7 saga continues
- From Wows to Woes: Why I won't be recommending a Nexus7 any time soon.
- Nexus7: What you need to know
- Why I disabled dlvr.it links on Facebook
- HTC Sense: Changing the lockscreen icons from within ADW
2011
- Push your Google+ posts to Twitter and Facebook
- Using multiple accounts with Google.
- The "Wn-R48" (Windows on the Cr-48)
- Want a Google+ invite?
- Publishing to external sources from Google+
- Dell Streak review. The Phone/Tablet Hybrid
- BlueInput: The Bluetooth HID driver Google forgot to include
- Pushing Buzz to Twitter with dlvr.it
- Managing your social outreach with dlvr.it
- When Awe met Some. The Cr-48 and Gnome3.
- Living with Google's Cr-48 and the cloud.
- Downtime 23-25/04/2011
- Are you practising "safe surfing"?
- The Virtualbox bug: "Cannot access the kernel driver" in Windows
- Putting tech into perspective
2010
- Have a Google Buzz Christmas
- Root a G1 running Android 1.6 without recovery!
- Windows 7 display issues on old Dell desktops
- Google added the Apps flexibility we've been waiting for!
- Part I: My 3 step program for moving to Google Apps
- Downloading torrents
- Completing the Buzz experience for Google Maps Mobile
- Quicktip: Trial Google Apps
- Quicktip: Save internet images fast
- Turn your desktop 3D!
- Part III - Device not compatible - Skype on 3
- Swype not compatible? ShapeWriter!
- Don't wait, get Swype now!
- HideIP VPN. Finally!
- Google enables Wave for Apps domains
- Aspire One touch screen
- Streamline XP into Ubuntu
- Edit a PDF with Zamzar
- Google offering Gmail addresses in the UK
- Google Wave: Revolutionising blogs!
- Hexxeh's Google Chrome OS builds
- Update: Buzz on Windows Mobile
- Alternatives to Internet Explorer
- Wordress 3.0 is coming!
- Skype for WM alternatives
- Browsing on a (data) budget? Opera!
- Buzz on unsupported mobiles
- Buzz on your desktop
- What's all the Buzz?
- Part II: Device not compatible - Skype on 3
- Part I - Device not compatible - Skype on 3
- Dreamscene on Windows 7
- Free Skype with 3? There's a catch..
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Articles
2025
- The Android Management API doesn't support pulling managed properties (config) from app tracks. Here's how to work around it
- Hands-on with CVE-2025-22442, a work profile sideloading vulnerability affecting most Android devices today
- AAB support for private apps in the managed Google Play iFrame is coming, take a first look here
- What's new (so far) for enterprise in Android 16
2024
- Android 15: What's new for enterprise?
- How Goto's acquisition of Miradore is eroding a once-promising MDM solution
- Google Play Protect no longer sends sideloaded applications for scanning on enterprise-managed devices
- Mobile Pros is moving to Discord
- Avoid another CrowdStrike takedown: Two approaches to replacing Windows
- Introducing MANAGED SETTINGS
- I'm joining NinjaOne
- Samsung announces Knox SDK restrictions for Android 15
- What's new (so far) for enterprise in Android 15
- Google quietly introduces new quotas for unvalidated AMAPI use
- What is Play Auto Install (PAI) in Android and how does it work?
- AMAPI publicly adds support for DPC migration
- How do Android devices become certified?
2023
- Mute @channel & @here notifications in Slack
- A guide to raising better support requests
- Ask Jason: How should we manage security and/or OS updates for our devices?
- Pixel 8 series launches with 7 years of software support
- Android's work profile behaviour has been reverted in 14 beta 5.3
- Fairphone raises the bar with commitment to Android updates
- Product files: The DoorDash T8
- Android's work profile gets a major upgrade in 14
- Google's inactive account policy may not impact Android Enterprise customers
- Product files: Alternative form factors and power solutions
- What's new in Android 14 for enterprise
- Introducing Micro Mobility
- Android Enterprise: A refresher
2022
- What I'd like to see from Android Enterprise in 2023
- Thoughts on Android 12's password complexity changes
- Google Play target API requirements & impact on enterprise applications
- Sunsetting Discuss comment platform
- Google publishes differences between Android and Android Go
- Android Go & EMM support
- Relaunching bayton.org
- AER dropped the 3/5 year update mandate with Android 11, where are we now?
- I made a bet with Google (and lost)
2020
- Product files: Building Android devices
- Google announce big changes to zero-touch
- VMware announces end of support for Device Admin
- Google launch the Android Enterprise Help Community
- Watch: An Android Enterprise discussion with Hypergate
- Listen again: BM podcast #144 - Jason Bayton & Russ Mohr talk Android!
- Google's Android Management API will soon support COPE
- Android Enterprise in 11: Google reduces visibility and control with COPE to bolster privacy.
- The decade that redefined Android in the enterprise
2019
- Why Intune doesn't support Android Enterprise COPE
- VMware WS1 UEM 1908 supports Android Enterprise enrolments on closed networks and AOSP devices
- The Bayton 2019 Android Enterprise experience survey
- Android Enterprise Partner Summit 2019 highlights
- The Huawei ban and Enterprise: what now?
- Dabbling with Android Enterprise in Q beta 3
- Why I moved from Google WiFi to Netgear Orbi
- I'm joining Social Mobile as Director of Android Innovation
- Android Enterprise in Q/10: features and clarity on DA deprecation
- MWC 2019: Mid-range devices excel, 5G everything, form-factors galore and Android Enterprise
- UEM tools managing Android-powered cars
- Joining the Android Enterprise Experts community
- February was an interesting month for OEMConfig
- Google launch Android Enterprise Recommended for Managed Service Providers
- Migrating from Windows 10 Mobile? Here's why you should consider Android
- AER expands: Android Enterprise Recommended for EMMs
- What I'd like to see from Android Enterprise in 2019
2018
- My top Android apps in 2018
- Year in review: 2018
- MobileIron Cloud R58 supports Android Enterprise fully managed devices with work profiles
- Hands on with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro
- Workspace ONE UEM 1810 introduces support for Android Enterprise fully managed devices with work profiles
- G Suite no longer prevents Android data leakage by default
- Live: Huawei Mate series launch
- How to sideload the Digital Wellbeing beta on Pie
- How to manually update the Nokia 7 Plus to Android Pie
- Hands on with the BQ Aquaris X2 Pro
- Hands on with Sony OEMConfig
- The state of Android Enterprise in 2018
- BYOD & Privacy: Don’t settle for legacy Android management in 2018
- Connecting two Synologies via SSH using public and private key authentication
- How to update Rsync on Mac OS Mojave and High Sierra
- Intune gains support for Android Enterprise COSU deployments
- Android Enterprise Recommended: HMD Global launch the Nokia 3.1 and Nokia 5.1
- Android Enterprise Partner Summit 2018 highlights
- Live: MobileIron LIVE! 2018
- Android Enterprise first: AirWatch 9.4 lands with a new name and focus
- Live: Android Enterprise Partner Summit 2018
- Samsung, Oreo and an inconsistent Android Enterprise UX
- MobileIron launch Android Enterprise work profiles on fully managed devices
- Android P demonstrates Google's focus on the enterprise
- An introduction to managed Google Play
- MWC 2018: Android One, Oreo Go, Android Enterprise Recommended & Android Enterprise
- Enterprise ready: Google launch Android Enterprise Recommended
2017
- Year in review: 2017
- Google is deprecating device admin in favour of Android Enterprise
- Hands on with the Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact
- Moto C Plus giveaway
- The state of Android Enterprise in 2017
- Samsung launched a Note 8 for enterprise
- MobileIron officially supports Android Enterprise QR code provisioning
- Android zero-touch enrolment has landed
- MobileIron unofficially supports QR provisioning for Android Enterprise work-managed devices, this is how I found it
- Hands on with the Nokia 3
- Experimenting with clustering and data replication in Nextcloud with MariaDB Galera and SyncThing
- Introducing documentation on bayton.org
- Goodbye Alexa, Hey Google: Hands on with the Google Home
- Restricting access to Exchange ActiveSync
- What is Mobile Device Management?
- 8 tips for a successful EMM deployment
- Long-term update: the fitlet-RM, a fanless industrial mini PC by Compulab
- First look: the FreedomPop V7
- Vault7 and the CIA: This is why we need EMM
- What is Android Enterprise (Android for Work) and why is it used?
- Introducing night mode on bayton.org
- What is iOS Supervision and why is it used?
- Hands on with the Galaxy TabPro S
- Introducing Nextcloud demo servers
- Part 4 - Project Obsidian: Obsidian is dead, long live Obsidian
2016
- My top Android apps 2016
- Hands on with the Linx 12V64
- Wandera review 2016: 2 years on
- Deploying MobileIron 9.1+ on KVM
- Hands on with the Nextcloud Box
- How a promoted tweet landed me on Finnish national news
- Using RWG Mobile for simple, cross-device centralised voicemail
- Part 3 – Project Obsidian: A change, data migration day 1 and build day 2
- Hands on: fitlet-RM, a fanless industrial mini PC by Compulab
- Part 2 - Project Obsidian: Build day 1
- Part 1 - Project Obsidian: Objectives & parts list
- Part 0 - Project Obsidian: Low power NAS & container server
- 5 Android apps improving my Chromebook experience
- First look: Android apps on ChromeOS
- Competition: Win 3 months of free VPS/Container hosting - Closed!
- ElasticHosts review
- ElasticHosts: Cloud Storage vs Folders, what's the difference?
- Adding bash completion to LXD
- Android N: First look & hands-on
- Springs.io - Container hosting at container prices
- Apple vs the FBI: This is why we need MDM
- Miradore Online MDM: Expanding management with subscriptions
- Lenovo Yoga 300 (11IBY) hard drive upgrade
- I bought a Lenovo Yoga 300, this is why I'm sending it back
- Restricting access to Exchange ActiveSync
- Switching to HTTPS on WordPress
2015
2014
- Is CYOD the answer to the BYOD headache?
- BYOD Management: Yes, we can wipe your phone
- A fortnight with Android Wear: LG G Watch review
- First look: Miradore Online free MDM
- Hands on: A weekend with Google Glass
- A month with Wandera Mobile Gateway
- Final thoughts: Dell Venue Pro 11 (Atom)
- Thoughts on BYOD
- Will 2014 bring better battery life?
- My year in review: Bayton.org
- The best purchase I've ever made? A Moto G for my father
2013
2012
- My Top Android Apps 12/12
- The Nexus 7 saga: Resolved
- Recycling Caps Lock into something useful - Ubuntu (12.04)
- The Nexus 7 saga continues
- From Wows to Woes: Why I won't be recommending a Nexus7 any time soon.
- Nexus7: What you need to know
- Why I disabled dlvr.it links on Facebook
- HTC Sense: Changing the lockscreen icons from within ADW
2011
- Push your Google+ posts to Twitter and Facebook
- Using multiple accounts with Google.
- The "Wn-R48" (Windows on the Cr-48)
- Want a Google+ invite?
- Publishing to external sources from Google+
- Dell Streak review. The Phone/Tablet Hybrid
- BlueInput: The Bluetooth HID driver Google forgot to include
- Pushing Buzz to Twitter with dlvr.it
- Managing your social outreach with dlvr.it
- When Awe met Some. The Cr-48 and Gnome3.
- Living with Google's Cr-48 and the cloud.
- Downtime 23-25/04/2011
- Are you practising "safe surfing"?
- The Virtualbox bug: "Cannot access the kernel driver" in Windows
- Putting tech into perspective
2010
- Have a Google Buzz Christmas
- Root a G1 running Android 1.6 without recovery!
- Windows 7 display issues on old Dell desktops
- Google added the Apps flexibility we've been waiting for!
- Part I: My 3 step program for moving to Google Apps
- Downloading torrents
- Completing the Buzz experience for Google Maps Mobile
- Quicktip: Trial Google Apps
- Quicktip: Save internet images fast
- Turn your desktop 3D!
- Part III - Device not compatible - Skype on 3
- Swype not compatible? ShapeWriter!
- Don't wait, get Swype now!
- HideIP VPN. Finally!
- Google enables Wave for Apps domains
- Aspire One touch screen
- Streamline XP into Ubuntu
- Edit a PDF with Zamzar
- Google offering Gmail addresses in the UK
- Google Wave: Revolutionising blogs!
- Hexxeh's Google Chrome OS builds
- Update: Buzz on Windows Mobile
- Alternatives to Internet Explorer
- Wordress 3.0 is coming!
- Skype for WM alternatives
- Browsing on a (data) budget? Opera!
- Buzz on unsupported mobiles
- Buzz on your desktop
- What's all the Buzz?
- Part II: Device not compatible - Skype on 3
- Part I - Device not compatible - Skype on 3
- Dreamscene on Windows 7
- Free Skype with 3? There's a catch..