Step 6 - Create a password compliance policy for Android Enterprise devices

In this article, you use Microsoft Intune to create a password compliance policy for Android Enterprise devices. This policy requires your Android users to enter a password of a specific length to be compliant with your organization's security requirements. You can create a password compliance policy for any device platform that Intune supports. This example uses Android Enterprise.

This article is part of an Evaluate and Try series that helps you evaluate Microsoft Intune's capabilities.

An Intune device compliance policy specifies the rules and settings that devices must meet to be considered compliant. You can enforce these compliance policies by using Microsoft Entra Conditional Access, which you can use to allow or block access to company resources. You can also get device reports and take actions for non-compliance.

Prerequisites

Create a device compliance policy

Create a device compliance policy that requires your Android users to enter a password of a specific length.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center and go to Devices > Compliance.

2. On the Policies tab, select Create policy.

3. For Platform, select Android Enterprise.

4. For Profile type, select either Fully managed, dedicated, and corporate-owned work profile or Personally-owned work profile, and then select Create.

5. On Basics, enter Android compliance as the Name. Adding a Description is optional. Select Next.

6. On Compliance settings, expand System Security and configure the following settings:

   • For Require a password to unlock mobile devices, select Require.
   • For Required password type, select At least numeric.
   • For Minimum password length, enter 6.

   

7. On the Assignments, you can optionally assign the policy to the user or group you created in Step 2 - Create a user and assign a license and Step 3 - Create a group evaluation steps.

8. When done, select Next until you reach the Review + create step. Then, select Create to create the policy.

When you successfully create the policy, it appears in your list of device compliance policies.

Conditional Access policy assignment

With the free trial, you can create a Conditional Access policy that enforces this password requirement. This tutorial doesn't include these steps but you can do it.

For more information, see:

• Learn about Conditional Access and Intune
• Common ways to use Conditional Access with Intune

Clean up resources

When you no longer need the policy, delete it. To delete the policy, select the compliance policy and select Delete.

Next steps

In this article, you used Intune to create a compliance policy for your Android Enterprise devices that requires a password with at least six characters. For more information about creating compliance policies, see Get started with device compliance policies in Intune.

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