Connect your Intune account to your Managed Google Play account

To manage Intune-enrolled devices with any of the supported Android Enterprise management options, you must connect your Microsoft Intune tenant to your managed Google Play account. Available management options include:

• Android Enterprise personally owned work profile
• Android Enterprise corporate-owned work profile
• Android Enterprise fully managed
• Android Enterprise dedicated devices

This article describes how to link your accounts in the Microsoft Intune admin center. After you connect to Google Play, these common apps for Android Enterprise are added to the admin center:

• Microsoft Intune - Used for Android Enterprise fully managed, dedicated, and corporate-owned work profile scenarios.
• Microsoft Authenticator - Helps you sign in to your accounts if you use two-factor verification, and is also used for Android Enterprise dedicated devices that enroll with Microsoft Entra shared device mode.
• Intune Company Portal - Used with Android Enterprise work profile scenarios on personal devices and Intune App Protection Policies (APP).
• Managed Home Screen - Used for multi-app kiosk mode on Android Enterprise dedicated devices. Learn more about Managed Home Screen.

Before you begin

Important

Beginning July 2024, we recommend using your Microsoft Entra account to connect to Google Play. As a result of recent changes made by Google, you can now link your Microsoft Entra identity account to a Google account, instead of using a personal Gmail account. For more information about these changes, see Google blog: How we’re making Android Enterprise signup and access to Google services better. Current Microsoft Intune tenants who have already associated a personal Gmail account with Intune will continue to be supported.

• Confirm Android Enterprise availability in your country or region. For more information, see Is Android Enterprise available in my country?
• Confirm the Microsoft Entra account you want to use. This account is used to manage the Google Admin account and associated subscriptions, and will be associated with all Android Enterprise management tasks under your Microsoft Intune tenant.
• Confirm that the Microsoft Entra account has a mailbox set up so that you can complete the validation process required by Google.

Connect accounts

Tip

Due to interaction between Google and Microsoft domains, this process may require you to adjust your browser settings. Make sure that portal.azure.com, play.google.com, and enterprise.google.com are in the same security zone in your browser.

Complete these steps to enable Android Enterprise management options in Microsoft Intune.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center.

2. Go to Devices > Enrollment.

3. Select the Android tab.

4. Under Prerequisites, choose Managed Google Play. If you're using a custom Intune admin role, access to this option requires organization read and update permissions.

5. Select I agree to grant Microsoft permission to send user and device information to Google.

6. Select Launch Google to connect now to open the Managed Google Play website. The website opens on a new tab in your browser.

7. On the Google sign-in page, confirm that the prefilled Microsoft Entra account is the account you want to associate with all Android Enterprise management tasks for this tenant.

Important

• This account is used to manage the Google Admin account and associated subscriptions, as appropriate. The Microsoft Entra account must have a mailbox set up to complete the validation process required by Google.
• We recommend using the Microsoft Entra account you're signed into to create the Google account. After you establish the connection, you can add and remove more administrators, if needed, in the Google admin console.

8. Follow the onscreen prompts to finish creating a Google Admin account.

9. When prompted, select Allow and create account to allow Microsoft Intune to manage your Android Enterprise devices.

Tip

To choose a scope tag for your managed Google Play apps, go to Tenant administration > Connectors and tokens > Managed Google Play in the Microsoft Intune admin center. Then select a scope tag to apply to all newly-approved Managed Google Play apps. You must have the following permissions to interact with this area in the admin center and to remove the selected scope tag. Tenant admins, or admins who are in charge of giving admin permissions to others, can go to Tenant Administration > Roles to edit permissions.

• Android Sync - Read
• Android Sync – UpdateOnBoarding

Disconnect your Android Enterprise administrative account

You can turn off Android Enterprise enrollment and management by following these steps:

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center with your Intune administrator account.
2. Retire all of the following devices:
   • Android Enterprise personally owned work profile devices
   • Android Enterprise corporate-owned work profile devices
   • Android Enterprise fully managed
   • Android Enterprise dedicated devices
3. Go to Devices > Enrollment.
4. Select the Android tab.
5. Under Prerequisites, choose Managed Google Play.
6. Select Disconnect.
7. Choose Yes to disconnect and unenroll all Android enterprise devices from Intune.

Next steps

After you connect to the Managed Google Play account, you can set up Microsoft Intune for these Android Enterprise scenarios:

• Personally owned work profile devices.
• Corporate-owned work profile devices.
• Dedicated devices.
• Fully managed devices.