{"id":1221,"date":"2019-09-05T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-au\/2019\/09\/05\/adobe-acrobat-ios-android-microsoft-365-app-protection\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:43:04","slug":"adobe-acrobat-ios-android-microsoft-365-app-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-au\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2019\/09\/05\/adobe-acrobat-ios-android-microsoft-365-app-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Acrobat chooses Microsoft 365 for built-in app protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

My team has worked very closely with our counterparts at Adobe for years, and this collaboration has created a long list of functionalities that have positively impacted users, as well as the people managing this software in the IT department.<\/p>\n

Today marks another big milestone in this relationship: On behalf of the Microsoft 365 engineering team, I\u2019m excited to announce Adobe has integrated Microsoft Intune<\/a> application protection directly into the Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app for iOS and Android.<\/p>\n

The Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app is the trusted global leader for reliably working with PDFs from anywhere. Hundreds of millions of users rely on the Acrobat Reader mobile app to edit, fill, sign, create, or convert PDFs on the go\u2014and now this functionality is natively supported in Microsoft 365 management and security policies. Anyone using the latest version of the standard Acrobat Reader app will now have the industry-leading protection of Intune when handling their corporate documents and forms on mobile devices. Now, the \u201cAcrobat Reader for Intune\u201d app is no longer required and will reach end-of-service on both Android and iOS by December 1, 2019.<\/p>\n

How does this help users?<\/h3>\n

This change aligns Adobe mobile app management with the same management built into the Office 365 mobile apps. This brings unprecedented simplification and security to millions of users and organizations. Adobe is one of the most common third-party mobile device apps used by Microsoft 365 customers, and these new Intune app protection policies will protect your company data at the app level. This type of protection is critically important because it allows you to protect company data on both managed and unmanaged devices. Because mobile app management (MAM) is based on user identity, the requirement for mobile device management (MDM) is removed. Both users and IT love this because it allows them to use the same app for both work and personal use, while maintaining the most productive experience possible.<\/p>\n

Intune can determine whether you are working on a personal or work document and only applies the company security policies when it senses you are in a work-related document. This gives you the ability to respect personal privacy and secure company data without touching personal data\u2014on a BYOD personal phone for example. The Adobe app on iOS now supports this multi-identity functionality.<\/p>\n

Making it easy for IT admins to deploy<\/h3>\n

If you happen to already use the Adobe Acrobat Reader for Intune app with the Intune policies applied, you can make this change with minimum disruption. Our engineering team has made sure that any existing app protection policies targeted to Adobe Acrobat Reader for Intune will automatically target the Adobe Acrobat Reader app in the backend. All your users need to do is be on the latest versions of their app:<\/p>\n