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My company just started requiring Microsoft Intune Company Portal app to use Teams and Outlook. From a friend in IT infosec at another company said the app can push apps, require certain settings, password requirements, or OSs, and can see a lot of stuff on your phone. I don't think this level of intrusion into my personal phone is warranted or ethical. Be warned. I'm just going to uninstall and suffer the internal political consequences.

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[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't believe it does, but @apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world, if you go on f-droid and grab an app called shelter, you can very easily move any of this work stuff to a work profile. I did and I recommend you do too.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

One thing to note (for what it's worth I use Island rather than Shelter, but the end result is the same), Microsoft can't get their shit together. While most things work normally with "Work Profile" apps, a couple of things don't.

The biggest annoyance by far for me is I cannot answer Teams calls on Android Auto. Perversely, I can reply to messages (DMs or group chats, but not channels) hands-free by talking to the car, but if a call comes in the UI only appears on the phone and not the car's display.

I'm sure Microsoft could fix this, but it's been broken for the ~2 years since they started supporting Android Auto in any capacity, so I'm guessing they aren't going to.

Overall though, my favourite feature has to be the one-click toggle that disables all of the work apps. No notifications, no syncing in the background, no nothing. As soon as my phone connects to my home WiFi, an automation turns it off for me. Glorious, glorious silence.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Interesting. I'd almost rather buy a shit second phone for work before putting this crap on my phone. Especially when I run e/os, which it may not like.

[–] techt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Same situation for me, this is what I did. No data plan, just a cheap android I only need to use on wifi and personal hotspot from my other device as-needed

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

100% right decision to get a secondary phone if you have to do this, IMO. It may not break at the same time, you can leave it somewhere and still use your main phone, your phone decisions are separate from your work considerations. Some new secondary phones look really cool also, like the one with the BlackBerry keyboard.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Wild. My work specifically requires the work profile. I guess I assumed these sorts of things all leveraged that ability.