Our organisation has recently started implementing Mobile Device Management using InTune on new devices as they are rolled out. This has cause us to hit a bit of a snag. Up to now, we have recommended that users take a Vector Tile Package that is generated by our GIS Team covering the state and sideload it to their device to streamline offline area downloads. This file is then referenced in the webmap settings to be used for offline areas.
We don't use Mobile Map Packages or specify offline areas in Field Maps Designer, as our staff are too irregularly dispersed to manage it that way. Staff instead determine what areas they need offline when they need them.
This has worked fine until now, where the MDM devices prohibit the user from sideloading our .vtpk onto their device (via USB connection to their PC). No file explorer option is available to them.
Does anyone else have experience with this and possible solutions we can look at?
Lindsay Raabe
GIS Officer
Forest Products Commission WA