Managed G-Suite Users and Android Apps

[_techie_]

Hi.

 

I can manage the user experience for students signing into their personally purchased chromebooks including, open tabs, setting homepage, and adding managed favourites, as well as other great settings.

I can also push Android/Play Store apps (such as Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook) to personal devices, when they are signed in with their organisational accounts, to these personal devices. Great!

 

 

Am I missing a trick when trying to use an enterprise enrolled Chromebook device, and a student school account. All the other settings come across, including the bookmarks, and homepage, yet the Play Store Apps don't appear.

 

I have allowed Android/Play Store Apps to be deployed, and they are assigned to the same user(s), but when logging in as a managed student account to an enterprise device, those apps never appear, even with a few reboots. I can see the device checking into g-Suite admin, so its definitely picking up policies.

 

Is this some kind of Google "thing"? I seem to remember an email from Google about stopping enterprise apps, but it was a while back, and we weren't using chromebooks in force then.

This is just something I am trying, as a possible way of providing managed chromebooks to students.

 

I know the obvious answer to this, is to use Google Docs/Slides/Sheets and managed assignments in Google Classroom, but we need a stop-gap until that happens!

Oh, moving away from a completely managed Windows network with Microsoft Office, and using Google as a VLE is fun to home learning. I was just tasked with making this work when in school, oh well.

 

Anything you can tell me would help, so I can write this off as limitation of how enterprised managed chromebooks are supposed to work, or we need to update our procedures.

Personally, I think this is way we should be working, but its a massive shift in how the school will operate.

 

Cheers

Mark

[mavhc]

You're following https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7131624?hl=en ?

[_techie_]

Yes followed that to the letter. Did a bit more testing last night from home, seems the device I am testing on, never got the planned support for Android Apps (Asus C201PA).

Its one of our oldest devices, and support stops this summer (June 2020). I guess we will continue using them for basic Citrix access on site, using the HTML5 receiver.

 

Thanks for the link though, the steps are clear enough.