Yes, it’s possible to set up an offline MobiControl instance On-premise without any issues.

Please follow the below mentioned link regarding the detailed process of offline activation of MobiControl on a closed environment:

http://www.soti.net/mc/help/v13/en/default.htm#Registration-WebConsole.htm%3FTocPath%3DInstallation%2520and%2520Setup%7C_____3

Please look for “Manually Registering MobiControl” section in the above guide.

Yes, you can sideload the Remote Skins bypassing the SOTI services.

Please find the below steps to sideload the Remote Control Skins bypassing the SOTI services:

1.      Firstly, modify the Soti.MobiControl.ManagementService.Host.Exe.config file to use Management Service will be the skin provider instead of Soti Service. This typically located in C:\Program Files\SOTI\MobiControl\ where MS server running. 

Find <soti.host> and add useManagementServicesAsSkinProvider="true"

e.g.

<soti.host> <service webAppRelativePath="MobiControl" publicApiRelativePath="mobicontrol/publicApi/" enableWebApiDocumentation="true" applicationName="MobiControl" useManagementServicesAsSkinProvider="true"/> </soti.host>

Note: Restart the service which is requires after any modification on configuration files.

    2.  Enroll the device to MobiControl which is installed on an environment having public internet access

    3.  Then navigate to C:\Users\skhilar\AppData\Local\SOTI and copy the “Skins” folder

    4.  Then paste the “Skins” folder in the system which don’t have Public internet access

    5.  Enroll the device to MobiControl which is installed on an environment not having public internet access

    6   Then on MobiControl console, navigate to All platform tab->Servers tab->Global Settings->Site Name

    7.    Import the required Skin file from the Skin folder that you have pasted from a publicly available environment

    8   Click “OK”

     9   After that, you can use the Remote Control Skin feature

Please follow the below-mentioned steps after creating the “Add Device Rule” for Android+ devices to avoid any certificate and enrollment issues:

1.       Right-click on the device rule you have created

2.       Click on “Download device agent”

3.       Select the device manufacturer on the “Device Agent Installation Files” dialog box

4     Click on “Download INI file” and “Download APK file” button to download the INI file and the MobiControl agent apk file.

5.       Then upload the agent apk and INI file to the device and enroll the device bypassing the SOTI services

6.       The device will get enrolled successfully and check-in to the server

For offline skins you have to edit the Management Service config file to set the service as the skins provider (in stead of the online Skins services). The Skin files (images and skins.ini) will have to be uploaded to the database via the web console. Please call the support team to ask them how to accomplish this.

Check C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\SOTI\Skins for an example of these files if you are using the legacy remote control plugin application. If you have Pocket Controller (Android or Windows) these skin files should be there.

As for enrolling devices, you can skip the online Enrollment service by downloading the mcsetup.ini from the Add Device rule in your web console. Place the ini file into the root of your internal storage and the agent will grab your server connection info, the MC Root Cert and the Add Device rule's rule tag from the file. The device will then enroll without MobiControl needing to be online.