Android Enterprise Profile Owner enrollment failing with Google Workspace authenticationSolved

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2 days ago Dec 31, 2025

Hey everyone, I’m posting this on behalf of our admin team because we’ve hit a blocker while enrolling Samsung devices as Profile Owner using Android Enterprise.

Here’s what’s happening in our setup:

We’re enforcing authentication using Google Workspace during enrollment. The flow starts off fine — we install Hexnode for Work, scan the Profile Owner QR code, sign in with Google credentials, and even complete the work account creation and accept the terms.

But right after that, the device suddenly asks for Google authentication again. When we re-enter the same credentials, the enrollment fails with an error saying:

“This account already exists on your device.”

A couple of things we’ve already verified:

  • Android Enterprise is properly configured with our Google domain
  • Enrollment works without authentication
  • It also works if we enforce authentication using local users with Google credentials

The issue only shows up when Google Workspace authentication is enforced. At the moment, this is blocking us from rolling out Android Enterprise under our domain. Has anyone seen this before?

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1 day ago Jan 01, 2026
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Hey,

Yeah, I’ve actually run into something very similar in the past.

Can you check one thing in your Google Admin console? If the option “Enable third-party integration” is turned on, try disabling it and then retry the enrollment.

When that setting is enabled, Google treats the second authentication prompt as a duplicate account scenario, which leads to the “account already exists” error you’re seeing. In setups like yours, this behavior is expected and disabling that option usually resolves it.

Worth giving that a shot.

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2 hours ago Jan 02, 2026
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That actually sounds very plausible, with what we’re seeing. I’ll check this with our GW admin team and test it out.

Really appreciate you sharing this. Thanks!

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