This explains step by step how to link a Google account to FocusMDM and this is used to enroll your devices in DO mode.
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You can ONLY use a Google account where the email is *********@gmail.com (NOTE that the suffix is “gmail.com” ) You CANNOT use a company Google account email address. For example xxxxx@yourcompanyname.com will NOT work |
The login email ID for this setup should be stored somewhere safe so future users are able to locate it if needed. You can see your account details here: https://play.google.com/work/adminsettings
Screens you will see when Linking FocusMDM to your Google account
- Enter your Business Name
- Confirm that the EMM Provider is "Dimagi Mobile Management Gateway"
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- For security reasons, you will need to enter in contact details for your organization
- Then you will be complete and can return to the FocusMDM dashboard
Why do you need a AFW setup?
It's like creating a workspace for your organization with Google to use the special Google Android APIs. Part of the provisioning process (of the DO mode) is creating a Managed Google Play Account on the device itself.
In order to do so, our server is making a call to a Google API endpoint, to obtain a token, and then this security token (the user authentication token generated by the Google Play EMM API) is being forwarded to the device (to finish the provisioning process by installing a Managed Play Store account).