Control Android version, security updates with SMC

Question is still active, at the moment we run SMC 7.1.5

Hi Systeembeheer Fokus 

Sorry for the delayed response. Please do brief little more about what you are trying to achieve so that I could assist with it.

Haridoss Sreenivasan said:

Hi Systeembeheer Fokus 

Sorry for the delayed response. Please do brief little more about what you are trying to achieve so that I could assist with it.

 

Hi Haridoss,

What I try to achieve is when Google desides to have an security update or even a full firmware update to 8.0 for android. That we as organisation deside to push the updates to the devices.
We wanna test and moderate these updates before we push it trough our end-users.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Systeembeheer Fokus 

Firmware Updates /Android updates can only be blocked on Samsung and LG devices which are compatible with KnoxStandard /LG Gate v.2.1. The feature is called "Allow over-the-air firmware updates". This needs to be unticked. The setting can be found in Android Policies under Security.

For non-Samsung/LG devices there is no setting like this.

Unfortunately, Sophos Mobile has no App Update Mangement feature. 

Thank you for the reply, I hope I can add this feature in Sophos-wishlist for upcoming Christmas :)

Greets, Cees

hi is this still no possible after 3 years? we have the ability to force updates on apple devices but can do nothing other than block droid updates. other mdm providers has this option, isnt it a fundamental option considering droid versions have been dropped from support and only way to update is to contact the users directly.

hi is this still no possible after 3 years? we have the ability to force updates on apple devices but can do nothing other than block droid updates. other mdm providers has this option, isnt it a fundamental option considering droid versions have been dropped from support and only way to update is to contact the users directly.