What is device enrollment?

Mobile device enrollment is the first phase of enterprise mobile management (EMM). Device enrollment is the method for connecting your FocusMDM web dashboard with your mobile devices.

During the enrollment, the mobile device is setup to communicate with FocusMDM.

FocusMDM supports many ways to enroll your devices

  • Factory reset the device and use QR code

  • Factory reset the device and use DPC identifier

  • Send a SMS or email with a URL link to the device to click for enrollment

  • Bulk enroll a number of devices by sending an email or SMS URL to all the devices

  • Install FocusMDM from the Play Store and then perform manual enrollment steps

Which of these enrollment methods you choose will impact what the management mode of your devices.

Devices are enrolled into one of 2 modes

  1. Basic Mode for partially managed devices

  2. Device Owner (DO) Mode for fully managed devices

How to choose an Enrollment option?

There are a number of constraints and factors that will influence which device enrollment method will choose.

  1. Go through your constraints to decide on what is the best way to enroll your devices on FocusMDM

  2. Carefully consider what are the differences between the enrollment options using this table

  3. And consider the device requirements for each option as the device hardware and Android version will impact your choice