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Contact SOTI's Professional Services and Support Team or visit the product documentation for information on proceeding with your upgrade.
SOTI MobiControl introduces Xtreme Technology in v15.0, which significantly improves the time to distribute Packages via Profiles and synchronize Files to the devices with up to a 10x performance improvement.
Administrators can now upload Android app installer files (.apk) directly to the SOTI MobiControl console and they will be automatically wrapped into a SOTI MobiControl Package, bypassing the need to use the Package Studio desktop application. The package will have default settings. Package Studio can continue to be used for custom package settings.
SOTI MobiControl v15.0 introduces new scripting functionality for Android Plus devices. Administrators can now use JavaScript and all its standard features to write scripts with conditional statements, loops, functions and variables. This new engine also includes support to perform asynchronous execution via callbacks and execute various actions using JavaScript custom APIs.
Administrators can now choose to deploy Android Plus device plugins to devices during device enrollment. This feature removes the need to manually install plugins later and ensures Android Plus devices are enrolled with the latest device plugins. During enrollment, SOTI MobiControl selects the relevant plugin for the device or, if no plugin is available for the device, gracefully skips the step.
You can now view the current location of all online devices in a device group at once. Offline devices will report their last known location until they reconnect to SOTI MobiControl, at which point the console will update with the device’s current location. Offline devices are color coded to quickly indicate how long devices have been offline.
SOTI MobiControl v15.0 continues the redesign of the administrative console, extending user interface improvements across more areas of the console. Building on previous work, profile management, from creation through to assignment, has made the move to our next generation user interface. Additionally, you can now perform some profile management actions directly from the Profiles list without opening a Profile Information panel, streamlining your workflow. Individual profile configurations for Android Plus, iOS and macOS have also been migrated with new capabilities and clearer feature descriptions. All advanced configurations have been converted, improving the configuration process and making it easy to switch between advanced configuration for different device types.
Previously, selecting all devices was limited to the number of devices displayed on a page, whether that was 50 or 250. There is now an option to either select all devices on the current page or all devices across all pages. Note: This change makes it easy to select all devices in your SOTI MobiControl deployment at once. Exercise caution when granting user permissions.
You can now dictate which divisions in your organizations have permissions (read, read/write) to users, custom data, and custom attributes with greater specificity. In large, global operations, it can be tricky to create user access systems that provide adequate permissions to certain administrators without simultaneously granting them broad permissions in areas irrelevant to their responsibilities. By adding more granular permissions, SOTI MobiControl v15.0 reduces the opportunity for disparate parties to make conflicting changes to SOTI MobiControl components. This feature mirrors the granular permissions already present in profile management.
Administrators can now select which device permissions are requested by the device agent during enrollment. Supported permissions are:
The above permissions are granted silently on devices where the option to deploy device plugins is also selected (and a plugin is available for that device). In this case, permissions will be granted after the plugin has finished installing on the device.
Improved options for Lockdown mode on Android devices running 9.0 or later
Administrators can use the new macro %CertificateTemplate_<Macro-Template-Name>% with Managed App Configurations to dynamically select and apply certificates to devices.
New feature controls:
New auto-update feature allows administrators to update App Store and custom apps as soon as new versions are released. You can completely automate the app update process by combining this new feature with the “Automatically update app on devices to at least this version” setting. With both settings enabled, SOTI MobiControl will automatically update managed apps on devices as soon as a newer version is released.
Improvements to select profile configurations provide administrators with greater management capabilities
Additional information on installed applications (iOS 13 or later only)
Package Studio now allows you configure WiFi on printers for certificate-based authentication.
New profile configuration setting
New profile configuration settings
The following REST APIs were introduced in MobiControl 15.0.0:
SOTI MobiControl Cloud customers must upgrade their SOTI Cloud Link Agent.
| MC‑75462 | MC-75462 “OS Edition and OS Base Edition” now display the relevant information for Windows 10 Pro Workstations under device details |
| MCMR‑16554 | Applications Restrictions for MacOS - Blacklisting a single application path under "Disallow Folders" will blacklist all other apps on MacOS "Except Siri" |
