Device ownership

As we reviewed in Chapter 1, Getting Started, AirWatch has set up its deployment based on three different ownership types:

• Corporate-dedicated

• Corporate-shared

• Employee owned

Note

There is also the unassigned ownership type used as a failover assignment in the event a device doesn't get an ownership assigned.

For the most part, you will most likely fall into two of these categories based on whether you are deploying a BYOD or corporate-owned deployment. Most likely, you will have a combination of both deployments and for BYOD, you will assign everything with employee-owned as the privacy given that the devices are someone else's ownership. For corporate-owned, you will most likely use corporate-dedicated for the most part, but there is the option of using corporate-shared as an alternative if there are any use cases for this.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

BYOD, as the heading states, means users bringing their own devices to work and the organization provides access to corporate...