{"id":9553,"date":"2026-04-09T23:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=9553"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:00:34","slug":"enabling-vpn-profile-for-defender-always-on-on-personally-owned-work-profile-if-forces-user-to-setup-8-digit-pincode-for-anroid-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/enabling-vpn-profile-for-defender-always-on-on-personally-owned-work-profile-if-forces-user-to-setup-8-digit-pincode-for-anroid-device","title":{"rendered":"Enabling VPN Profile for Defender ( Always on ) on Personally-Owned Work Profile if forces user to setup 8 digit pincode for Anroid Device"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you enable Always-on VPN on a Personally-Owned Work Profile policy, Android enforces a device-level security requirement as a prerequisite. Specifically: Android requires a screen lock\/password to be set on the device before Always-on VPN can be activated. This is an Android OS-level enforcement, not Intune imposing it directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The default Password Complexity is <strong>None<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Setting this to Low allows the user to continue with 6 Digit Passcode for device<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9554 img-responsive\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4.png 906w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4-768x459.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you enable Always-on VPN on a Personally-Owned Work Profile policy, Android enforces a device-level security requirement as a prerequisite. Specifically: Android requires a screen lock\/password to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9555,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions\/9555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}