You have set up an enrollment profile that uses Location Services in Intune for your Android devices. Great. It can be very useful when you need to locate a lost or stolen device in Microsoft Intune Admin.
Here’s the thing though, if you do not allow the Intune app permission to access the devices’ location all the time, it won’t work.
Follow these steps.
Steps to Configure Location Services in Intune
- Swipe down from the top of the phone screen and tap settings in the top right of the screen.
- Search for location:
3. Once in Location, tap “App Permissions”:
4. Once in App permissions, scroll down until you see the Intune app. Since it is among the apps not allowed to access location data, it will be further down the screen. When you find it, tap it.:
5. In the Intune App permissions screen, make sure “Allow all the time” is chosen. Then tap the back arrow.
Locations services are now configured for your phone. It would be foolish to choose “allow only while using this app” or “Ask Every time”. Nobody knows when or how they are going to have their phone lost or stolen LOL.
One Consideration when Configuring Location Services
When I configured a usage policy for a group of mobiles, I had another group of mobiles excluded from this policy. They had to be configured slightly differently. The problem was location services were not enabled in their policy. Never assume it will always work. I had to go into the second policy and enabled it.
Follow these steps to Location Services on Intune and you will be good to go!
Dan
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