I've been having issues getting these ipads working to our liking in our environment. First of all, we are using an app that syncs calendar with exchange and each ipad has an email address setup that 've configured as a room. It works great but I have a single issue that is bugging us and I cannot figure it out.
We want the screens on 24x7 without any pin or password. Basically disable the pin code or password completely for these devices so we can set the screen sleep to it's 'never' setting.
Where and how do I do this in Exchange? I know Exchange is where this needs to be done but I'm not 100% sure what to do or where to change it. Any help would be appreciated.
I think you are really asking an iPad question, more than an Exchange ActiveSync question.
In iPad Settings > General > Guided Access, you can enable a "kiosk mode". Apple just calls it Guided Access, but what you're effectively doing is locking the tablet to a single application. With the feature turned on, triple click the Home button to lock the application. You can configure a PIN to release Guided Access, or rely on the obscurity of the triple click to unlock the device.
As for ActiveSync, you should create a new ActiveSync policy and assign it to the room mailboxes. Normally a room mailbox account is disabled, but I would imagine your solution gets around that issue.
Creating a new policy can be accomplished in the Office 365 Exchange Admin Center, under Mobile > Mobile Device Mailbox Policies. Click the Plus [+] to create a new policy, give it a name, and configure options. I would advise against not requiring a password. You can leave the "Require sign-in after the device has been inactive for X minutes" option, and I think that will allow you to set the auto-lock to Never.
Finally, I suggest you audit usage of this ActiveSync policy, since it is less restrictive than normal.
You can also create and modify ActiveSync policies using Powershell, using New/Get/Set-MobileDeviceMailboxPolicy. Get and Set-MobileDeviceMailboxPolicy is going to be useful for enumerating some of the more obscure settings and requirements, you might find something useful.
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I've setup google parental control on my children phone, they ask for approval to install a game and i approved it, later i changed my mind and uninstall it from there phone, but they went to play store a re-install it, but this time family link didn't ask for my approval, it's just installed it and showed me a notification that it's been installed. What i want is that whenever they install anything, no matter it was once approved or millions times, google play must ask them for my approval each time it's reinstall.
Most probably you approved the app as Always allowed app. To edit app activity:
Open the Family Link app Family Link and then Select your child.
On the "App activity" card, tap Set limits or More.
Next to your desired app, tap Always always allow.
From here you can select an option to:
Always allow always allow.
Set a time limit Set limit.
Set unlimited time Empty hourglass.
Block an app Block.
The Google Family Link app lacks the 'whitelist' feature to allow only a strict set of application to install. Unfortunately, the answer is you cannot prevent the installation of a previously installed application (as a previous answer suggested, you could block said apps).
I experimented and unfortunately disabling and re-enabling Family supervision will still allow previously installed apps to install. Also, the previously installed apps will be available if you get a new device for the child's account. Or at least, this is the functionality circa Fall 2022.
An extreme solution would be to create a new account, but obviously this is a frustrating answer if you are trying to do something like protect an older family member who has established accounts for billing.
This solution outlined below will not work, but I did read it as a proposed solution elsewhere online. I thought I would include it and mention it with this warning.
Open the Play Store app
Select the account icon in the upper right corner
Choose the Manage app & device from the popup menu
Select Manage
Click Installed
Select Not Installed
Select all applications you wish to remove in checkable list
Click the Trash Can icon in the upper right corner
This would disassociate the application from the account in an ideal world; however, it does not and the child account can still reinstall the offending applications. The parent is notified of this installation, but they cannot prevent it.
Had the same issue but rather than doing the "google play delete not installed apps list"-thing which doesnt solve the problem anyway, use this list to search and install the apps you dont want your child to have installed. After that you can manually block these unwanted apps from normal family link app and deinstall them after you've done that. (You can also leave them on the phone, i mean they are blocked anyways, but it should still take memory space so no reason to not deinstall them after)
Now you will see the following if your child tries to reinstall the app from the play store:
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it says "your parents blocked this app" (just in german :) )
This "feature" (if you even want to call it that way) is really stupid and this way might be the only one to solve this problem even if a bit time-intensive. Hope Google will work on Family Link. Big potential but soooo many problems.
I was added to a Slack workspace by a coworker. I must've accepted something on the mobile app because I have access to the workspace there. Somehow, the desktop app never reflected this change and shows no sign of knowing about the workspace. I attempted to solve this problem by inviting myself to the workspace from the mobile app and accepting the invite link on the desktop app. I now have access to the workspace on the desktop app, but no direct messages have been carried over. (My desktop is Debian and mobile is iOS, if that makes any difference.)
I can't find any discussion about this on the Slack website or through a DuckDuckGo search... Does anyone know how to sync Slack from mobile to desktop? I will greatly appreciate any suggestions or direction. Thank you in advance!
This is not possible and despite the fact that this question was raised as soon people had two devices, Slack never agreed to address it.
On desktop I have no less than 15 workspaces.
A workaround that just worked for me was signing out of the desktop app and signing again. That allowed me see all the workspaces I was already in.
Here's a workaround (it is not ideal so I'm still searching for a better solution):
From the channel(s) I wanted to sync, on the mobile app, I added myself and now I have access to those channels on the desktop app. Unfortunately, I show up as two members with the same name...
I know this is an old thread, but I was struggling just now with the opposite problem: there was a Slack workspace that I could see in my computer but not in my mobile app. I write here how I solved it in case someone faces the same problem in the future.
In my case, it turned out that the problem was that I was using different email addresses for the different workspaces (either my professional or personal email), and I had pending to verify one of the addresses.
To solve it I:
Opened the Home menu by either sweeping right of tapping on the icon of the workspace I was in at that time
Went to Add a workspace
Saw that there was one email pending to confirm, so I confirmed it and immediately saw the missing workspace in my home menu together with the rest
The Knock app lets you knock on your iPhone to unlock your Mac.
I come from the iOS side and was naturally surprised to see it was able to modify the lock screen. How does it do that? Can any Mac OS X just do anything it wants to the lock screen?
(source: heavy.com)
Also, while installing, the password prompt seemed... unusual. It wasn't like the default password prompt, but more like the one on the lock screen:
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Any idea about what's going on?
OSX has a security system that allows third party developers to develop authorisation plugins, in order to provide alternative or additional security, such as finger print scanners, iris readers or anything else you want to provide.
There's a database of rules which states for each type of security access, what security mechanisms are used. You can see this in action when you see the padlock icon in Security Preferences. Clicking on a locked icon brings up a security dialog asking for credentials.
The lock screen and login uses the same mechanism, so with this in mind, it's not too difficult to write a plugin which listens out for a network message (in this case, via bluetooth) from the iPhone, which is sent when the internal gyroscope picks up the knock.
Modifying the security rules database allows the developer to switch the standard login dialog for their security plugin and that's all there is to it.
As for being more secure, I'm not too sure about that; they are, after all, replacing the standard OSX security, which requires a password that is verified through Apple's cryptography.
If someone in your home picked up your iPhone, they can easily knock on it and unlock your Mac, but with a password, only you should know that!
Is there any way switch on/off flight mode programmatically in Windows Phone 7.5. What I want to do is create background task which will be check time and switch on/off flight mode.
Thanks in advance.
No, this functionality is not available.
It was a design principle behind the platform that applications should not be able to do things without the user knowing it.
If such functionality was available then it would be possible for an app (either deliberately or accidentally-though a bug) to get the devices state in a setting other than what they user may expect. In such a scenario users will typically blaim the phone/platform for what has happened, not a misbehaving application.
Though you cannot programatically do it (as others have mentioned), you can send the user directly to the proper page in the settings panel and allow them to do it. Here's an example of using the ConnectionsSettingsTask:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh394011(v=VS.92).aspx
You would want to set the ConnectionSettingsType property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.phone.tasks.connectionsettingstask.connectionsettingstype(v=VS.92).aspx
To 'AirplaneMode'.
I'm trying to upload an application to the Windows Phone Marketplace but it keeps failing due to the location privacy policy. In the application there is only one part that checks your location, and the user has to manually call it. Basically we show a map, and a button to locate the user, when this button is pressed for the first time, we show a small privacy policy, and we ask the user to allow the use of his location. And even with this, the application's certification failed.
I'm wondering if anyone has a good example of how the privacy policy should be, and if it should be displayed when the app is first launched, rather than when the locations services are activated by the user (like we are currently doing it). And any other tips or advice you may have.
This is the only part of the certification the app failed, so once I get some good answers, it'll be ready to go.
Thanks!
Make sure to read the Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements.
Section 2.10 specifically applies to your problem.
Microsoft really wants you to have a permanent link to your privacy policy somewhere in the app. Your privacy policy should explicitly explain that you collect this data, how you use it, how you store it, who you share it with, and what the user can do about it. You also need a setting somewhere for the user to turn use of GeoLocation data off.
In my app I have an About screen with a link to the PrivPol, TOS and Tech Support. I also have a settings page with an ON / OFF switch for GeoLocation data. I made sure our privacy policy explicitly addresses location data. And we got through approval with no issues.
YMMV.
Do you have the specific certification requirement (the reference number) ? Here are a couple of links about it in the Windows Phone 7 developers forum:
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/72366/441401.aspx#441401
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/63656/390088.aspx#390088