Windows 10: Windows 10 Cisco Meraki MDM will not allow me to enrol

Hi


In order to enrol a device onto the Cisco Meraki MDM you must follow the below -

1. Navigate to Settings > Accounts > Access work or school on the desktop Windows device.
2. Click Connect
3. Enter an email address on a domain that does not exist and click - Connect or Continue
4. Then it will prompt for you to enter an MDM server
5. In the Server box, enter n236.meraki.com
6. Enter this Network ID:
7. Click Register
8. The device will automatically synchronize with the Meraki Cloud and appear in the client list

The above usually works fine but today on a w laptop when entering the not existent email address it does not prompt for an MDM URL but infact does the below -




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Cisco Meraki hotspots cause Wi-Fi hang

When in an area where one of the suggested hotspots is Cisco Meraki, Windows 10 hangs because it cannot download Meraki drivers to set up Meraki. I had to disable automatic connection to Wi-Fi hotspots to avoid this problem. Is there another way to avoid
this issue in the future or establish priority on hotspots? (i.e. if I have a service account with someone like Xfinity or T-mobile, give those priority over other available hotspots?)

Why this is an issue: I didn't want to connect to Meraki but lost 30 minutes connecting to the open Wi-Fi at Starbucks because there was a Meraki device in the store next door. Windows decided to load and connect to the Meraki device rather than load available
connections into the Wi-Fi options or Network Settings. This basically rendered my PC unusable until it finally gave up on attempting the setup.

 

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Meraki

Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Meraki Inc., a leader in cloud networking. Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., with offices in New York, London and Mexico, Meraki offers midmarket customers easy-to-deploy on-premise networking solutions that can be centrally managed from the cloud.

As the IT industry transforms in the mobile-cloud era, Cisco is solving customers' networking and business enablement challenges by delivering cloud networking and device and security services. The acquisition of Meraki complements and expands Cisco's strategy to offer more software-centric solutions to simplify network management, help customers empower mobile workforces, and generate new revenue opportunities for partners.

Meraki's cloud networking solutions will expand Cisco's network offerings by providing scalable solutions for midmarket businesses. The Meraki acquisition will also strengthen Cisco's Unified Access platform, which makes IT more responsive to business innovation by simplifying IT operations and uniting wired and wireless networks, policy and management into one integrated network infrastructure, unlike other competitive offerings.

"The acquisition of Meraki enables Cisco to make simple, secure, cloud managed networks available to our global customer base of mid-sized businesses and enterprises. These companies have the same IT needs as larger organizations, but without the resources to integrate complex IT solutions," said Rob Soderbery, senior vice president, Cisco Enterprise Networking Group. "Meraki's solution was built from the ground up optimized for cloud, with tremendous scale, and is already in use by thousands of customers to manage hundreds of thousands of devices."

Meraki technology offers customers Wi-Fi, switching, security and mobile device management centrally managed from the cloud. Meraki solutions support BYOD, guest networking, application control, WAN optimization, application firewall and other advanced networking services.

Meraki was founded by members of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. Meraki combines a high-velocity software development methodology with a tightly linked inside sales and channel model that will form the new Cloud Networking Group.
Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives to acquire the entire business and operations of Meraki. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2013, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review.

Investor and Media Events:
Rob Soderbery, senior vice president of Cisco's Enterprise Networking Group; Hilton Romanski, vice president of business development for Cisco; and Sanjit Biswas, chief executive officer and co-founder of Meraki will host a joint investor call on November 19 from 6:00-6:45 a.m. PST to discuss the proposed transaction.

 

Unable to enroll Microsoft Windows 10 Phone Anniversary to non-Microsoft MDM Solutions

Since upgrading all our Microsoft Windows 10 Phones to Anniversary we can no longer enroll the device to non-Microsoft MDM Solutions

Prior to the upgrade, most of the devices can enroll without issue (WP 8.1 & 10)

We utilize autodiscovery for the enrollment

Now however autodiscovery is defaulting to only Micrsosoft or O365 Accounts

Is it possible to utilize Autodiscovery when enrolling a Microsoft Windows 10 Phone Anniversary as we do in previous versions to a non-Microsoft MDM Solution

NOTE: We can bypass this by manually specifying a fake email and manually entering the Server Address of the MDM Solution but the device does not seem to be fully enrolled