Month: November 2014

How to configure multi-factor authentication in Microsoft Intune – Part 1: The easiest method

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By now I think it’s save to assume that everybody knows about the new capabilities of Microsoft Intune that where added last week. Also, next to those adjustments there were the “long” hoped for improvements to the Windows Phone 8.1 enrollment process. These new capabilities and improvements triggered me to do a new small blog series and this time about multi-factor authentication. In this blog series I will describe a few different multi-factor authentication configurations for, initially, Microsoft Intune standalone. This first part will be the easiest configuration, without anything fancy like single sign-on. Scenario Before I’ll start with this configuration for multi-factor authentication it’s important to mention a couple of lines about the scenario. This specific multi-factor authentication configuration is only possible when the …

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Extend the Hardware Inventory for PolicyManager settings on Windows Phone 8.1

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This blog post will be a follow-up on last weeks blog post about THE Windows Phone 8.1 configuration baseline, as I will show this week how those settings can be added to the hardware inventory. Especially with using multiple configuration baselines and Company Resource Access policies, it’s easy to loose track of the current configuration of, in this case, Windows Phone 8.1. That’s why I  took the information about the PolicyManager configuration service provider (CSP),  again, as provided in the Windows Phone 8.1 MDM Protocol document, but this time to create a MOF file. Hardware Inventory settings By default ConfigMgr (and Microsoft Intune) will inventory a lot of great information, but not about the settings managed via the PolicyManager. That is why I created a …

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THE Windows Phone 8.1 Configuration Baseline

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This blog post will be about THE Windows Phone 8.1 configuration baseline, for usage with ConfigMgr 2012 (integrated with Microsoft Intune). This configuration baseline is created based on the information provided in the Windows Phone 8.1 MDM Protocol document. That document describes the PolicyManager configuration service provider (CSP), which is the centralized component to handle all Windows Phone supported enterprise policies. It describes in detail every currently configurable policy, by any mobile device management solution. Configuration Items I took all the settings, as described in the Windows Phone 8.1 MDM Protocol document, and created separate configuration items for each one of them. In these configuration items I included all the available information about the specific settings, including their descriptions. Based on the possible values of …

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Blog series about how to integrate Microsoft Intune and ConfigMgr with Single Sign-On

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A few weeks ago I did a blog post about How to configure a relying party trust between on-premises AD FS and Microsoft Azure AD for single sign-on in Microsoft Intune. Based on that blog post I’ve got a lot of feedback of people mentioning that it was a great post, but that they would like to see the complete picture. That made me decide to create a step-by-step guide for a basic lab setup of Microsoft Intune and ConfigMgr with single sign-on. Starting today the complete series is online on windows-noob. I’ve sliced this guide in to the following four pieces: How to integrate Microsoft Intune and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager with Single Sign-On – Part 1: Introduction and prerequisites; This first …

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