SkieWhat happens when a Skie licence expires?
Devices that are already managed keep their last rules, new enrolments pause, and notices appear on devices and in the dashboard before and after the date. A daily licence sweep checks expiry. Renew before the date to avoid interruption, and read your agreement for how expiry is handled.
Expiry is not a switch-off. The rules already on a device stay in place, because they are cached on the device and enforced by Android itself. A tablet does not suddenly open up because a date has passed.
What changes is the service around it. New provisioning stops, because the licence check at enrolment fails. Changes you want to make may be limited until the licence is renewed. A daily licence sweep looks at the dates, and the expiry notices appear on devices and in the dashboards so that administrators and users see it coming.
There is also a grace period that can be set for each licence. The next entry explains how it works. Together, the notices and the grace period are meant to give you time to renew without a gap in protection.
Do not treat the sweep as a reason to wait. The cleaner course is to ask for renewal terms several weeks before the date and have the paperwork done. If your organisation needs approvals or purchase orders, start early.
A practical tip: put the licence end date in your calendar and in your asset register, with a reminder for the person who signs. Check the dashboard banner once a month. If you do plan to stop using Skie, do not simply let it lapse. Use Remove Skie first, as described in the cancelling entry.