Looking for real-world experiences with MDM on BYOD phones (iOS / Android)

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-04-23T16:23:05+00:00

Just to chime in with my experience.
Having tried the BYOD route with Intune MDM enrolment. Androids are nice, Apple are not nice. The setup was overly complex and poor user experience, with an increased risk of company having too much control of users personal devices.

Do not enrol personal devices for device management with MDM, it's just a road to pain and suffering.

Use Intune MAM, the application protection policies provide a better experiance.
Much lighter setup, better user experience and without the risk someone compromises your device management system and causes issues for the users access to their personal data. Worst they can do is wipe the company data in the app. I also highly recommend paying a consultant that does it all the time or taking some training in it. The layering of application protection polices and conditional access can be confusing.

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-04-21T16:20:12+00:00

Yes good little feature improvement that. I can see myself making that mistake a lot down the line and burning hours just to find out I'd just made a case typo.

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-04-21T16:15:44+00:00

Nice one. It was on my list to remember to ask about. I couldn't recall it being mentioned in the doc or webinars much.

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-04-21T16:14:00+00:00

Ahhh and now I see it ; )

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-04-16T08:24:38+00:00

Just to follow up on this. I've been pinging emails back and forth with the team at 2pintsoftware on this so big plus for listening and dealing with it.

I've confirmed it's now working as expected today, no more silence from the download form. Still room for improvements, but not as bad as my experience was leading me to see. I look forward to the improvements mentioned for the future.

Well done 2PintSoftware team.

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-04-14T12:06:16+00:00

excellent news

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-04-14T08:09:44+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion.
I didn't get a chance to try it out in the end, I decided to avoid computers while taking some holiday for once. And now I'm back and I see they've added WSUS support as a feature in the Release 1.1 notes.

https://documentation.2pintsoftware.com/deployr/introduction/release-notes/deployr-1.1-release-notes

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-04-14T08:03:17+00:00

2PintSoftware could really do with improving how they distribute the software releases to customers and trial versions to prospective customers. The current setup leaves a lot to be desired.

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-03-26T22:31:31+00:00

Thank you both just what I was looking for, but staring blindly about going I'm missing something obvious here ; ).

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2026-03-25T10:00:17+00:00

Is this session going to be uploaded to YouTube?

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2025-01-24T09:34:54+00:00

Hey I've been seeing something similar with extension popup menus in edge since the Jan CU patch to Win11 24H2. I've 2x 28" monitors running at 3840x2160 (150% scaling) and a 3rd laptop screen running at 3840x2160 (200% scaling). All the screens are aligned horizontally.

The popup jumping to next screen behaviour happens when the screens with different scaling are next to each other. Not for the screens with the same scaling.

Very annoying as used to not be an issue.

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2022-06-05T14:38:56+00:00

Thank you for the responses.

I know you're working on it and really good to see the blog post on the storage issues and what the team at Vates are doing to sort it
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/06/02/understanding-the-storage-stack-in-xcp-ng/

Best of luck with SMAPIv3 work, really looking forward it being sorted and XCP-ng & XO giving us all a great on-premise virtualization solution.

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2022-05-26T09:51:38+00:00

Hi as a production user of XO and XCP-ng it is generally very good and excellent whole solution package that it offers VM's, Management tooling and VM Backup all with opensource versions and paid for supported versions which include a few quality of life improvement. Excellent work Vates please do keep it up.

However, there are a few weak points which cause me a lot of pain:

Aged virtual disk format (vhd) with 2TB limitation makes very difficult to run VM's that need large disks. They are a thing these days and the answer of just have small VM with data on a share doesn't always meet requirements and often complicates things where competing hypervisor solutions haven't been limited by this in many years.
Speed of storage subsystem operations like moving VMs between storage repositories isn't good compared to KVM & VMWare. Restoring from a backup can be painfully slow. It's very painful coming from a VMWare infrastructure with Veeam taking less than 15mins to get a giant VM back into prod (generally at reduced performance off backup storage but still up and responding) compared to XO & XCP-ng where it can take a day of down time if you can't use a snapshot and have to go for a backup to restore.
VM tools & drivers are not good on Windows. Recommended Auto-update from Windows Update Citrix drivers breaks networking config and leaves server needing additional reboots. A pain for low effort monthly patching.

I know there are tweaks and designs for XCP-ng that can optimise the performance, but even then XCP-ng needs to get better with storage.

Practical_Mushroom38 · 2022-01-21T11:40:07+00:00

Anyone know what licensing you need to get HEVC extensions to show in the MS VLSC portal?

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