Trying Our Hardest to Automate This Process The other part of the issue is that even if we were OK with our customers seeing this prompt, and having them be responsible for enabling Location Services, it requires administrative privileges to grant an app Location Services abilities, which the majority of our users do not have. We don’t want to interfere with their work nor do we want to show them random popups that from a user perspective, could look like phishing or being “hacked,” thus generating an IT ticket. One is that we try to be as quiet as possible with regards to alerts to our customers. This poses an issue for us, for a few reasons. If you click “OK” in this window, System Preferences will automatically open and specifically will open to the Privacy tab of the Security & Privacy preference pane. Once you’ve enabled Location Tracking in AirWatch, and the Agent on the Mac syncs, you will see a very persistent popup appear (persistent assuming you don’t just enable Location Services for the app). In that section, you will see an option for Location with a checkbox to “Collect Location Data”.Įnabling Location Tracking Manually on macOS It is under Groups & Settings –> All Settings –> Devices & Users –> Apple –> Apple macOS –> Agent Settings. In order to turn on Location Tracking in AirWatch, you have to dig into the Settings a bit. It provided us the ability to track location of devices, lock them via MDM, and wipe them, all things our current product is used to do. Therefore, we were looking for alternatives, and hoping AirWatch would fit the bill. We’re talking brand new machines that should be getting 7-10 hours, consistently dying after 2. We currently use another tool that shall remain nameless, but have been dealing with insane battery drains for the past few months that we’re all but certain it has introduced. As all of our equipment is Government Furnished, we try to keep a big brother close eye on it. In moving over to AirWatch, we were poking around with the location tracking features.
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