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Howdy,

We are looking into a BYOD system for people to use their cell phones with sync up with our corporate exchange so they can sync down the email, calendar, contacts, etc to their phones. We use Office 365 and phones could be Android or iOS.

The main issue we need for security reasons is that we need the ability to wipe the phone if/when the person leaves the company. However, we don’t want to have to wipe the entire phone. We’d like to just wipe the corporate account and the data associated with it.

I know Microsoft Intune can do MDM but don’t know how it handles Wiping. Can anyone recommend this or any other program we can use that can do a Selective Wipe to only remove the company data remotely?

Thanks

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Take a look at Cisco Meraki MDM - I’ve used it for around 2 years and it’s served me well.

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InTune supports selective wiping of company data from personally owned devices. The interface for InTune is a bit clunky compared to some others I’ve seen, but it has the same functionality, and can easily be added on to your O365 licensing.

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o365 offers this natively.

Navigate to your admin portal. Users>active users click on the user whose device you need to wipe. Mail settings> edit exchange properties

once the page loads go to mailbox features on the left

Under mobile devices click view details.

select the device you wish to wipe and click the wipe data icon.

For this to work I believe OWA has to be enabled (I think its enabled by default)

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We are just in the process of migrating to O365 right now. We don’t have any policies setup or anything. I’ve been looking online for a walk-through but haven’t found much except things from 3+ years ago when it was first announced and most of the instructions don’t match the current admin portal since it’s changed quite a bit since back then.

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The link below might be helpful.

How to wipe only corporate data from Intune-managed apps

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We’d prefer to try the embedded O365 MDM solution since it’s included but when I tried to use it, it said we already have Intune. I went into the Intune section and it says it’s active but has 0 for all the sections in there as we’ve never actually used it. I opened a ticket with MS to see about cancelling Intune so we can try the embedded MDM solution and see how it goes.