User interface for controlling use of a business environment on a mobile device

A server configured to providing a graphical user interface to provision business environments on mobile devices, the server comprising a processor configured to perform the steps of:

• presenting a navigation panel that displays a virtual phone template menu item and a policy setting menu item;
• upon selection of the virtual phone template menu item, presenting a template user interface in a display panel that enables an administrator to customize virtual phone image templates for users in an enterprise to be delivered to mobile devices that are configured to run the virtual phone image templates as virtual machines in order to provide a business environment, wherein each of the virtual phone image templates includes a mobile operating system, configuration information for the mobile operating system and a plurality of mobile applications installed in the mobile operating system;
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• upon selection of the policy setting menu item, presenting at least one lease option for the virtual phone image, wherein the at least one lease option indicates a lease interval for at least a respective one of the virtual phone image templates.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that cause a processor of a server to provide a graphical user interface to provision business environments on mobile devices by performing the steps of:

• presenting a navigation panel that displays a virtual phone template menu item and a policy setting menu item and a policy setting menu item;
• upon selection of the virtual phone template menu item, presenting a template user interface in a display panel that enables an administrator to customize virtual phone image templates for users in an enterprise to be delivered to mobile devices that are configured to run the virtual phone image templates as virtual machines in order to provide a business environment, wherein each of the virtual phone image templates includes a mobile operating system, configuration information for the mobile operating system and a plurality of mobile applications installed in the mobile operating system;
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• upon selection of the policy setting menu item, presenting at least one lease option for the virtual phone image, wherein the at least one lease option indicates a lease interval for at least a respective one of the virtual phone image templates.