Lessons learned on the digital workspace journey with Workspace ONE

Usage and adoption of REST API's continues to increase, as the need to integrate services over the web is greater than it has ever been. One of the most frequently used API endpoints in Workspace ONE UEM is  /API/mdm/devices. This API endpoint accepts a variety of parameters that help filter your result set to only include what is necessary, and reduce the payload size returned in the HTTP response. We will take a look at a quick example of how to perform this HTTP Request with Powershell and invoke-restmethod. Below is a simple Powershell script I was able to create for this example. Make sure to include base64 encoded credentials in a folder (c:\creds\b64.txt in the example), and to update the $apiKey object with an API key. When reviewing the results from the object with $getDevices.Devices, the following is stored in the variable: This API really gives you quite a bit to work with, and VMware is really good about offering developers an assortment of APIs to report