If you aren’t familiar with Android launchers, they are app-like programs that offer completely different layouts, styles, configurable options, themes and a ton of other features for your Android devices. Apart from that, the launcher is also exceptionally easy to use, customize and of course fast!

It also has a lot more Windows compatibility than all the others, which you will probably find very enticing if you have any other Windows-based devices. We start by deploying the Microsoft Launcher app as required to our Android Enterprise Fully Managed devices.Microsoft’s new Android launcher is nothing like Windows previous attempts in the phone market and has far more similarities with the other launchers on the market, than the failed Windows phone. Optional we can use an App Configuration policy to deploy additional settings for the Launcher and grant permissions to the app. To set the Microsoft Launcher as the default launcher, we need to deploy the Microsoft Launcher app and use a Device restrictions profile to set the launcher as default.

Using the same launcher on every device, makes it much easier to support this. As every Android vendor changes the stock Android experience, it might be hard to provide support on all those devices with all those different launchers.

With the latest Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) service release (2006), we are now able to set the Microsoft Launcher as the default launcher for fully managed Android Enterprise devices.Ī reason for setting the Microsoft Launcher as default is to make your different Android devices in the company have the same look and feel.

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