Managing Policies

This section describes the terminology used in EMM when defining policies, so you will be familiar with the terms to better understand the steps defined under each sub section under managing policies.

• Features
  The functionalities supported by each device type.
   

• Profile
  A profile in the context of EMM refers to a collection features that is supported by each device type. These features can be configured using the different configuration options.
   

• Publish policies
  When a policy is published it will be in the active state. The active policies will be applied to the devices that registers with EMM based on the Policy enforcement criteria.
   
• Unpublish policies
  When a policy is unpublsihed it will be in the non-active state. Such policies will not be considered when applying policies to the device that registers with EMM.
   
• Save
  If you SAVE the configured profile, it will be in the inactive state and will not be applied to any devices.
   
• Save and publish
  If you SAVE & PUBLISH the configured profile of policies it will be in the active state. The active policies will be enforced on new devices that enroll with EMM based on the Policy enforcement criteria.
   

• Apply changes
  Policies in the active state will be applied to new device that register with EMM based on the policy enforcement criteria . In a situation where you need to make changes to existing policies (removing, activating, deactivating and updating) or add new policies, the existing devices will not receive these changes immediately. Once all the required changes are made you can click Apply changes to push the changes made to the policies to the existing devices.

  The EMM does not notify the end user of the devices each time a change is made to a policy because the notification servers will be flooded unnecessarily with the policy changing messages. Therefore after all the required changes are made to the policies you can click apply changes to notify the user in one go.