Month: June 2015

New tool: Remote Mobile Device Manager

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This blog post will be about a new tool, written in PowerShell, to remotely manage mobile devices. This tool is based on the ConfigMgr SDK and contains all the available options for remotely managing mobile devices. That means it can retire, wipe, lock and pin reset mobile devices. Basically, it’s a version 2.0 of the tool I made a couple of months ago. That tool is limited to the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 functionality, of wipe and retire, and this new tool also contains the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 functionality, of lock and pin reset. The use case for this tool is still the same. In most cases the service desk is responsible for helping end-users with their mobile devices. What if the company rather not …

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Invoke remote device actions via PowerShell

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This will be a short blog post about a the newly introduced WMI class, in the latest service pack, called SMS_DeviceAction. As I’m currently working on a new tool to remotely manage mobile devices, which will be released soon, I noticed that the SMS_DeviceAction class is used to invoke and query the Lock and PinReset actions. What’s even more important is the fact that the SMS_DeviceAction class isn’t documented, yet. In this blog post I’ll post the required information to successfully query the SMS_DeviceAction class and to successfully invoke the methods of the SMS_DeviceAction class. Methods The SMS_DeviceAction class contains the method InvokeAction. The InvokeAction method requires the following input parameters. Parameter Data Type Description Action String This parameter is required and should contain the …

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Pick your Company Portal app

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This weekend I posted a small tweet showing the tabs, in my browser, to the different Company Portal apps. In that same tweet I promised the overview that follows in this blog post. By now there are 8 different versions of the Company Portal app and specific to Microsoft Intune that number is 7. These Company Portal apps differ in things like product, platform and availability. This blog post will describe the different Company Portal apps, their platforms, their usage, their main requirements, their availability and, if needed, their important notes. All that information should help you with picking the right version of the Company Portal app and all that information can be found in the following table. Company Portal app More information Configuration Manager …

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Windows Phone 8.1 and the Windows Phone Store

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This blog post will be about the other magical store world of Windows Phone 8.1 and that’s the world of the Windows Phone Store. By now, I think many are already aware of the different possibilities for the Windows Phone Store, but I thought it would be time for a complete overview like I did for Windows Phone 8.1 and the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app. This post will contain the different scenarios for providing (limited) access to the Windows Phone Store. These scenarios will be explained for Microsoft Intune standalone and Microsoft Intune hybrid. Scenarios Now lets start with summarizing the different scenarios that are possible for providing (limiting) access to the Windows Phone Store. I found the following three scenarios and I’ll go …

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