Setting up an Enterprise and Approving Google Play content

The Google Play content page allows you to approve and manage Google Play store apps. These apps will be available to download when they are added to projects. A Google Enterprise is required to manage Google Play store apps.

A Google Enterprise account can be setup with either a G Suite or a Gmail Account.

What is a G Suite Account:

G Suite allows employees to have Gmail accounts that use a business domain.

What is the Primary Domain:

The business domain of the G Suite account.

Create an Organizational Unit (If one does not already exist)

1. Go to the Manage Organizational units page of the Google Admin console.
2. Create a new Organizational unit. The name here will be the name of the Google enterprise created for Ensemble.

Where to get a registration token:

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.
2. Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges.
3. From the Admin console Home page, go to Devices.
4. From the side navigation, expand the Settings option, then click Third-party integrations and then Android EMM.
5. Choose which organizational unit to associate the Android EMM.
6. Click the edit icon to open the Android EMM settings.
7. Enable third-party Android mobile management and click Add EMM provider.
8. If a token is present in the token generator, copy the token. Otherwise, click Generate Token to create a new token and copy it.
9. Go to the Google Play Content page and enter the primary domain and registration token.

A Google Enterprise Account is associated with your organization and allows you to select, purchase, and manage enterprise apps for your organization through the Google Play Store.

1. Navigate to the 'Google Play Content' page.
2. Under 'Enroll with Gmail', click 'Enroll Enterprise' to generate a sign-up url. 
3. Clicking that URL will start a set-up flow for creating an enterprise account.
1. Company Name: enter the name you'd like to give the enterprise.
2. (Optional) Data protection officer and EU representative: fill these out if applicable.
3. Click "Complete Registration" to finish setting up your Enterprise Account.
4. You will be redirected back to the management portal.
   

Note: The current Google account you are logged into on the browser will be used to setup the enterprise account. Ensure that you are logged in as the desired account before setting this up. This does not have to be the same email used to log into Ensemble.

Un-enrolling an Enterprise account

Un-enrolling a Google Enterprise account will remove the ability for you to use Google Play with your Management account. Continue on with the following steps to un-enroll your enterprise account:

• Expand the 'Enterprise enrolled!' drop-down.
• Select 'Un-enroll Enterprise' under the Action(s) heading.

• You can now re-enroll or sign-in to a different Google account to enroll a new enterprise.

With-in 30 days of un-enrolling from an Enterprise. The enterprise can be re-enrolled with Ensemble.

Here you can add applications from the Google Play store to the company content library.

• Navigate to the "Google Play Content" tab. Then click on 'Add Application' in the top-right section of the 'Enterprise applications' table..
• Search for the application you want to add and click "Approve".
• Read the app permissions and click "Approve" again if you accept.
• Set the Approval Settings for the app. The two Approval settings are:

1. Keep approved when app requests new permissions: if updated version of the app requires new permissions, then automatically accept them.
2. Revoke app approval when this app requests new permissions - if updated version of the app requires new permissions, then you will need to re-add the new version

• The app now appears in the 'Enterprise applications' table and is ready to be added to a project. See "Managing Google Play content" for more details.

Here you can manage the apps you have approved for use with your Google Enterprise account.

1. Navigate to the "Google Play Content" tab. Find the app in "Enterprise applications" table and select "Options" in the far-right column.
2. The options you can select are as follows:

• Get app details: launches the Google Play store page for the selected app.
• Manage configurations: allows you to create a custom configuration for the app if applicable.
• Manage application permissions: allows you to set custom permissions for the app if applicable.
• Remove application: Removes app from your Google Enterprise account. This will also remove it from any projects it is assigned to.