Month: October 2014

How to troubleshoot Windows Phone 8.1 enrollment via Microsoft Intune

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In this blog post I want to put a spotlight on the troubleshooting of Windows Phone 8.1 enrollment in Microsoft Intune (with or without ConfigMgr integration). The problem with Windows Phone enrollment was that there was little to no log information about the enrollment process, but that has changed with Windows Phone 8.1. Before Windows Phone 8.1 there were only some log files (like the dmpdownloader) when the integration with ConfigMgr was used, but in most occasions they wouldn’t show helpful information. Starting with Windows Phone 8.1 this has changed and there is the ability to get some logging of the mobile device. It’s not an easy process, and probably not an option in every situation,  but it will help to verify the health of …

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How to configure a relying party trust between on-premises AD FS and Microsoft Azure AD for single sign-on in Microsoft Intune

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One of the things that is often requested by customers is to configure single sign-on for Microsoft Intune (with or without ConfigMgr integration). The main reasons for that request are simple, it’s to make the user experience better and to prevent the user from having different accounts and passwords. In this blog post I will show how relatively easy it is to federate on-premises Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) with the Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Micorosoft Azure AD). The best thing about this is that after this configuration is done, all Microsoft Intune authentication requests will redirect to the on-premises AD FS. Also, in this post I will skip a few important steps (see prerequisites). I assume that those steps are more common knowledge. …

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How to configure a Software Update Point to use SSL for communicating with WSUS

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This blog post will be about configuring a Software Update Point (SUP) to use SSL for communicating with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). I know there are many guides out on the web detailing the standard installation of WSUS and a SUP, but not many of them are explaining (or even touching) the HTTPS/SSL configuration. Also, I’ve been getting some questions about this subject lately, so I thought it would be time to dedicate a blog post to this. Very high-level, this post will go through the configuration of WSUS to require SSL communication and the configuration of a SUP to use SSL communication. So, actually the title doesn’t cover the complete blog post. Prerequisites Before we go through the configuration steps of WSUS and …

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Weird but true: Permissions required to use Edit Primary Users / Devices in ConfigMgr 2012

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The idea of this blog post is identical to my blog post about the permissions required to use Resultant Client Settings that I did a couple of weeks ago. I’m also thinking about making this something recurring, as I noticed that the role based administration model sometimes reacts a bit different then, at least, I would expect. For those following me on Twitter, this blog post will be an extended version of a tweet I posted last week. This blog post will explain a bit more about the situation, as that was a  bit hard in a tweet of 140 characters. Also, this blog is a lot easier to find for future references. Introduction In this blog post I’ll explain what permissions are required to …

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