Windows 10 device enrollment

Updated May 21, 2015: Yesterday Microsoft released a new technical preview build of Windows 10 (build 10122). Within this build the look-and-feel of the enrollment process changed. I’ve updated the enrollment process to reflect these changes. After the release of Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 (build 9926) I knew my next blog post would include Windows 10. So far I’m really liking the new start menu, the search, the notifications, the settings and I could go on like that for a while. Blogging about these subjects wouldn’t add something new as it’s already be done by many over the last week. Even the deployments of Windows 10 via MDT and/ or ConfigMgr are already done and covered in blogs. That’s why I looked further, to …

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Custom terms and conditions for using the Company Portal of Microsoft Intune

Updated September 8, 2015: Since the August 2015 update of Microsoft Intune the creation and deployment of custom Terms and Conditions has changed. An update blog post can be found here: https://www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/multiple-custom-terms-and-conditions-for-device-enrollment-and-company-access/ And we’re back in the cloud, back in Microsoft Intune. One of the things customers like to do is customize, as the standards are often to generic. The nice thing with the Company Portal is that it’s already possible to customize things like the text, logo and colors via both Microsoft Intune standalone and Microsoft Intune hybrid (integrated with ConfigMgr). To add-on to that, it’s now also possible to create custom Terms and Conditions, via Microsoft Intune standalone, and in this blog post I’ll show how easy this can be done. The nice …

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Verify the role-based administration model via PowerShell

Let’s switch back to pure ConfigMgr and PowerShell this week. It will be a relatively short blog post, but in this post I’ll go through WMI and show how to get the right information about the role-based administration model. I know that this information is also available through the console, but what if I want to verify the configured role-based administration model. In that case I don’t want to go through the console, in that case I want to automate it. That way I can schedule it every now and then. SMS_Admin To get the information that I’m looking for I have to look at the SMS_Admin class in WMI. This class represents all the different administrative users. The first step is quite easy and …

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Windows Phone 8.1 Kiosk mode: Inside AssignedAccessXml

Let’s start my first blog post of this new year with a nice story about a XML that can be used to configure a Windows Phone 8.1 device in a kiosk mode. This XML can be applied on a Windows Phone 8.1 device via OMA-URI settings. As it’s now possible to configure OMA-URI via Microsoft Intune and via Microsoft Intune integrated with ConfigMgr 2012, the information in the post is applicable to both scenario’s. I have to admit that it’s not as simple to configure as kiosk mode for an iOS device, or an Andriod device (via Microsoft Intune), but it does provide a lot more options to configure. In this blog post I will go through the different required elements of the XML and …

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