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Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: Five Days to Beijing: Destroying a China Office's Drives Without Shipping Them Out

September 11, 2026 | 18 min

Five Days to Beijing: Destroying a China Office's Drives Without Shipping Them Out

A composite scenario: a foreign-invested group's China engineering centre retires ninety workstations and eleven servers, and its group process says ship the drives to Hong Kong. Why that one routing decision creates three separate problems, and why the destruction capability can travel instead.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: The Number That Made Them Look Temporary: A 400 Hotline for a China Office

September 11, 2026 | 18 min

The Number That Made Them Look Temporary: A 400 Hotline for a China Office

A composite scenario: a European instruments maker's sixty-person China office runs on twelve personal mobile numbers with no switchboard, and starts losing tenders on the after-sales line of the scorecard. Why a 400 hotline is an entity question rather than a technical one, and why the real gap was governance, not telephony.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: Android Without Google: Managing Devices for a Foreign Company's China Staff

September 11, 2026 | 17 min

Android Without Google: Managing Devices for a Foreign Company's China Staff

A composite scenario: a European group extends its three-year-old global MDM standard to a 70-person China office, and Android enrolment simply never completes. Why China-market Android breaks the Android Enterprise model, what a China-specific enrolment path actually requires, and why the licence was never the missing piece.