Data flow: Activating an Android Enterprise Work and personal - full control device in a Google domain


Diagram showing the steps and components mentioned in the following data flow.

This data flow applies when BlackBerry UEM is connected to a Google Cloud or Google Workspace domain.

  1. You perform the following actions:
    1. Verify that the user has a Google account that is associated with the user’s work email address. Optionally, you can configure BlackBerry UEM to create the Google account for the user during the activation process. When BlackBerry UEM creates the account for the user in Google, the user receives an email from the Google domain with their Google account password.
    2. Verify that the "Enforce EMM Policy" setting is enabled for the Google domain. This setting specifies that activated devices are managed by an EMM provider, such as BlackBerry UEM.
    3. Add a user to BlackBerry UEM as a local user account or using the account information retrieved from your company directory. When you specify the email address, use the email address that is associated with the user's Google account.
    4. Make sure that the "Work and personal - full control" activation type is assigned to the user.
    5. Set the user's activation password.
  2. The user resets their device to the factory default settings.
  3. The device restarts and prompts the user to select a Wi-Fi network and to add an account.
  4. The user enters their work email address and password.
  5. The device communicates with the Google domain to verify that the user is a work user and to check if the Enforce EMM Policy setting is enabled. After the device performs the appropriate validations, the device performs the following actions:
    1. If the device is not encrypted, prompts the user to encrypt the device and restarts
    2. Downloads the BlackBerry UEM Client from Google Play and installs it
  6. The BlackBerry UEM Client on the device prompts the user to type their email address and activation password.
  7. The user types their email address and activation password or scans the QR Code.
  8. The BlackBerry UEM Client on the device performs the following actions:
    1. Establishes a connection to the BlackBerry Infrastructure
    2. Sends a request for activation information to the BlackBerry Infrastructure
  9. The BlackBerry Infrastructure performs the following actions:
    1. Verifies that the user is a valid, registered user
    2. Retrieves the BlackBerry UEM server address for the user
    3. Sends the server address to the BlackBerry UEM Client
  10. The BlackBerry UEM Client establishes a connection with BlackBerry UEM using an HTTP CONNECT call over port 443 and sends an activation request to BlackBerry UEM. The activation request includes the username, password, device operating system, and unique device identifier.
  11. BlackBerry UEM performs the following actions:
    1. Determines the activation type assigned to the user account
    2. Connects to the Google domain to verify the user information. If the user does not exist, depending on your configuration, BlackBerry UEM may create the user in the Google domain
    3. Creates a device instance
    4. Associates the device instance with the specified user account
    5. Adds the enrollment session ID to an HTTP session
    6. Sends a successful authentication message to the device
  12. The BlackBerry UEM Client performs the following actions:
    1. Creates the work profile on the device
    2. Prompts the user for the user's Google account information
    3. Connects to the Google domain to authenticate the user
    4. Creates a CSR using the information received from BlackBerry UEM and sends a client certificate request to BlackBerry UEM over HTTPS
  13. BlackBerry UEM performs the following actions:
    1. Validates the client certificate request against the enrollment session ID in the HTTP session
    2. Signs the client certificate request with the root certificate
    3. Sends the signed client certificate and root certificate back to the BlackBerry UEM Client

    A mutually authenticated TLS session is established between the BlackBerry UEM Client and BlackBerry UEM.

  14. The BlackBerry UEM Client requests all configuration information and sends the device and software information to BlackBerry UEM.
  15. BlackBerry UEM stores the device information and sends the requested configuration information to the device.
  16. The device sends an acknowledgment to BlackBerry UEM that it received and applied the configuration information. The activation process is complete.