Knox Suite FAQ

Knox Suite is a bundled offering designed to help enterprise IT admins better manage your fleet of devices. It includes individual services such as Knox Platform for Enterprise, Knox Mobile Enrollment, Knox Manage, Knox E-FOTA, and Knox Asset Intelligence. Key features of Knox Suite include:

• Secure — Ensure your business data is protected with managed security features at your control.
• Deploy — Enroll corporate devices to EMM automatically and securely, right out of the box.
• Manage — Enable comprehensive management over corporate devices and OS versions.
• Analyze — Strengthen in-depth device analytics for mobile productivity and asset management.

You can contact the Knox Resellers in your country to purchase a Knox Suite license. To find the official Knox Suite resellers in your location, see the Knox Reseller Directory.

Yes, a free, fully-featured, 3-month trial of Knox Suite is available. The trial license will support up to 30 devices on a per-seat basis.

To start the trial, enter your email address under Get Started on the Knox solutions page and click GET A FREE TRIAL. Complete the signup process, and after you sign in to the Knox dashboard, click each Knox Suite product card that you would like to try.

Yes. Settings and data are bound to the account (also known as a tenant), and will carry over from your trial account when you upgrade.

First, start by registering target devices to the Knox servers to enable Knox products on the devices. Usually, your device reseller will register the purchased devices to the Knox servers on your behalf. When the devices are registered, you should sign in to the Knox dashboard and launch the Knox Admin Portal by clicking the card of a Knox cloud service that is included in Knox Suite. Then, you should define the desired policies or settings as for the registered devices. The devices receive and apply these configurations during their first boot.

For more information, see the Getting started with Knox Suite video and the Knox Suite admin guide.

Different Knox Suite products support different platforms and OS versions. At a minimum, each Knox cloud service guarantees compatibility with the five most recent major OS versions:

Yes. You can upgrade or switch to Knox Suite while using an individual Knox cloud service. After you purchase a Knox Suite license from a Samsung Knox reseller, for Knox Manage and Knox E-FOTA you must update the license keys.

• Knox Manage users — Replace your existing Knox Manage license key with the new Knox Suite license that you purchased. Select Knox Suite from the Organization or User settings pages. For more information, see Convert a license in the Knox Manage documentation.
• Knox E-FOTA users — Replace your existing Knox E-FOTA license with the new Knox Suite license that you purchased. To replace the license, go to the unified License Management page on the Knox Admin Portal, enter the new Knox Suite license key you've purchased, select your existing Knox E-FOTA license key and then select Replace with a new Knox Suite license key. For more information, see Manage Knox licenses in the Knox Admin Portal documentation.

Yes. The location of managed devices can be tracked by services in the Knox Suite. Knox Manage and Knox Asset Intelligence help you locate devices and analyze their movement during the course of business.

Samsung is committed to safely handling customer information acquired from its business practices, and meets all data storage and handling requirements stipulated by the GDPR. Samsung ensures that data collection is restricted to only that which is necessary. Samsung cloud solutions are SOC2-certified, so you can rest assured of the smooth operation, security, and reliability of solutions in the Knox Suite. If you want to learn more, see GDPR and Samsung Knox solutions.

Knox Suite has no limitations on the number of devices that can be managed by its solutions.

Explore the KBAs in this admin guide for up-to-date resolutions to known issues. For issues that can't be solved using our online resources, you can sign up on SamsungKnox.com to send us inquiries or create support tickets. See Use the Samsung Knox Portal to learn how to create a support ticket.

Enterprise customers can enjoy our professional and instant support whenever needed with our paid technical support programs. To learn more, visit our Samsung Enterprise Technical Support page.