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Setting 
Android
 password requirements

There are four groups of IT policy rules for 
Android
 passwords. The group of rules that you use depends on the device activation type and whether you are setting requirements for the device password or the work space password.
After you set password rules in the IT policy, use a compliance profile to enforce the password requirements.
Activation type
Supported password rules
Work and personal - user privacy
 (
Android Enterprise
) and 
Work and personal - full control
 (
Android Enterprise
) 
Use the global password rules to set device password requirements.
Use the work profile password rules to set the password requirements for the work profile.
Knox
 password rules are ignored by the device.
Work space only
 (
Android Enterprise
)
Use the global password rules to set password requirements for the device. Because the device only has a work space, the password is also the work space password.
All other password rules are ignored by the device.
MDM controls
Use the global password rules to set device password requirements.
All other password rules are ignored by the device.
The 
MDM controls
 activation type is deprecated for devices with 
Android
 10. For more information, visit https://support.blackberry.com/community to read article 48386.
MDM controls
 (
Samsung Knox
)
Use the 
Knox
 MDM password rules to set device password requirements.
All other password rules are ignored by the device.
Work and personal - user privacy
 (
Samsung Knox
)
You have no control over the device password.
Use the 
Knox
 Premium - Workspace password rules to set password requirements for the work space.
All other password rules are ignored by the device.
The 
Samsung Knox
 activation types will be deprecated in a future release. Devices that support 
Knox Platform for Enterprise
 can be activated using the 
Android Enterprise
 activation types. For more information, visit https://support.blackberry.com/community to read article 54614.
Work and personal - full control
 (
Samsung Knox
)
Use the 
Knox
 MDM password rules to set device password requirements.
Use the 
Knox
 Premium - Workspace password rules to set password requirements for the work space.
All other password rules are ignored by the device.
Work space only
 (
Samsung Knox
) 
Use the 
Knox
 Premium - Workspace password rules to set password requirements for the work space.
All other password rules are ignored by the device.