Is there any way of getting the "Windows Live Anonymous ID" from a PC based on the users e-mail-adress, logged in Windows-account, registry, Zune, currently usb-connected phone or else?
I'm not sure what you mean by "Windows Live Anonymous ID", but if you mean the Windows Live ID that is associated with the device, then no there is no way to retrieve this from the device, or the other places you suggest. If you require a Windows Live ID from a user, you should ask them for it because a) it's polite, and b) they might want to use a different account for your application.
There is no way to query information on a phone from a connected PC.
Any such ability could be considered a security hole.
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I am trying to enroll about a 100 systems in Intune. I want the user to be signed in as a standard user. I searched and found the only way to do this will be using AutoPilot. Thats is just not possible, It requires a factory reset device and a hardware hash for each device.
The other way they say is to run a Powershell script. That option won't work because I want only the one microsoft account on the system. Windows needs at least one Admin account.
I simply want the normal user to be a standard account and in case he needs admin privileges I can connect and type in cloud device administrator's credentials to give him access. However, I cannot find anyway to get this done, kind of hard to believe this is so difficult to do. Any suggestions?
We are trying out the EMM MDM app using Android Enterprise.
So we enroll using Android Enterprise in Fully managed mode.
We'll be having a per device policy mechanism, so every device will have a separate policy.
Now at the start, we don't have any info about who's the user, so we apply the default policy and then during setup (using setupActions), we open our custom app and ask the user to log in using username and password, that way we know who's the user.
The issue is, we know the user, but we don't know on which device the user has logged into since we can't query IMEI/SerialNumber (https://developer.android.com/training/articles/user-data-ids#best-practices-android-identifiers)
The issue is we make users log in from our app but in AndroidEnterprise, the device name is different.
We want to create a mapping of username <---> device info from AE.
Can we query the Android Device Policy app someway to get any identifier so that we can map deviceId <---> username?
or any other suggested way?
We can not send deviceName or anything in Managed configuration since, at that time, the user is not enrolled in AnroidEnterprise thus, we don't have that info. see ref
Also, anyone knows how can we interact with Android Device Policy somehow? to know which policy is applied? etc.
From Android 10 to read device Identifiers numbers, it required READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE permission. However, apps installed from the Google Play Store cannot declare privileged permissions.
If you work with Android Management API, you can set policy DelegatedScope: CERT_INSTALL for your application to have a special permission that access to certificate installation and management. So that we can use READ_PHONE_STATE permission on your app's manifest.
From your application, you can got IMEI/SerialNumber
From your default policy, you have to set delegate scopes for your application
"applications": [
{
"packageName": "your-app-package-name",
"delegatedScopes": [
"CERT_INSTALL"
]
}
]
device.list can be used to check the list of devices enrolled in a specific enterprise, while devices.get may be used to check the details of a specific device. You may want to check this link for the list information you may get using device.get.
I have an app that is already in the store, but I want to transfer ownership of that app to a different developer account. Is this possible?
There isn't an automated way to do this, but I believe it can be done if you contact Microsoft Support to request a transfer.
Go to http://aka.ms/storesupport and log in as the current owner account, click select your type of problem here, and set the Problem type to "Store Registration and your account". That should connect you with the right people.
I want to send info between a desktop/laptop/tablet app and Windows Phone. One possibility is to send data to the SkyDrive account and have the other end pick it up from there. Is this feasible? What I have in mind is the "Windows 8" app running on the desktop, laptop, or tablet allowing the Windows Phone app[s] to send data to its account. Is this possible, such as by providing the Windows Phone app with the Skydrive login info, or...???
From all the other questions you've posted around this query, it sounds like you want to put a mechanism in place to communicate between a Windows 8 app and a windows phone app. I would recommend you look at building a service to handle the communication instead of trying to leverage mechanisms that weren't designed for what you want to achieve.
In direct answer to the this question, though, you can probably achieve it in this manner, but what happens if the user deletes the file you create?
So, SkyDrive is unique to a user, not a device. This means if your application is running on more than one device you can use SkyDrive as a shared, unified storage option. Not just for files but also for application settings. There's an SDK for every platform, not just MS.
Here's what you need to consider.
The roaming API in Windows 8 puts information in a protected area of SkyDrive. As a result, the user cannot delete or screw up the files stored there. To that end, using SkyDrive as a shared location (like you are asking) doesn't have this benefit. The user can screw with your files or delete them - and wreck your app. There is no such thing as protecting your app files in SkyDrive (at this time).
Specifically, to your question:
The authorization model for SkyDrive requires a token that cannot be practically cached for any app. Also, you cannot cache credentials because you never get the credentials in the first place - you only get the resulting token. Listen, you would violate every possible best practice if you //asked// the user for their username and password and stored them. Please do not do this.
The final answer is this: an app on multiple devices can use SkyDrive as a shared storage solution for files and settings (like XML files) - but the developer needs to understand the risk and mitigate that (mitigation might be easy for your app). The user, on every device, would need to sign in and grant each application access to it folders. And, that's it.
Is there a way on the Windows Phone to access the users mobile number? Is it possible to gain this information by asking permission or possible having the user sign in via a Windows Live Account to gain the information? I wanted to see if there is a solution other than using Twilio in order to verify a phone number via text message. I'm working specifically on Mango now but would be interested if this would be possible in Apollo as well.
Unfortunately this is not supported.
To gain this information you will need to ask the user to manually for their phone number. This is to stop their phone number being retrieved by any app which requests it, which could then lead to spam/selling of the phone number (to name a few scenarios)
Considering that this is a security limitation (not a hardware/software limitation), I doubt very much that this security conscious decision will be revoked for Apollo (Windows Phone 8) and access to the phone number will be granted to any app that wants it.
You can retrieve contacts with mango.
See : MSDN
Regards.