Android Prevent users from disabling Location Services on Work Managed Devices

[nwleaphart]

Short version: Is there a way to prevent users from disabling Location Services (Settings > Location) on Samsung Work Managed Devices? 

Long version: There is an Android Work Managed restriction setting to force the location services to use one of five options: None, Allow No Location Access, Send Battery Saving Updates, Set GPS Location Only, Set High Accuracy Location

However, configuring any of these options doesn't appear to prevent the user from going in and turning off Location Settings altogether. It seems like other MDM's have this capability. I even see a screenshot of what appears to be WS1 UEM having this capability (where the option is labelled "Allow user to modify location settings"). Our MDM does not seem to have this capability.

I would settle for deploying a setting via XML to prevent this setting from being toggled, but I cannot seem to find the correct syntax for configuring this. Has anyone else run into this issue?

[Sascha Warno]

What version of UEM are you on? Already using DDUI profiles? I can see it in DDUI. Old profiles would require custom XML.

<characteristic type="com.airwatch.android.restrictions.config_location" uuid="f8fd25d4-0cd9-4917-8525-7354b52f6123">
<parm name="allowConfigLocation" value="False" />
</characteristic>

[nwleaphart]

Thanks for the reply! I've marked this as a solution. I have yet to test it, but hopefully will be able to do so soon.