Month: July 2015

Whitelist the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app for Windows Phone

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This time a short blog post about the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app for Windows Phone. More specifically, about whitelisting the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app for Windows Phone. When whitelists, also known as Allowed Apps lists, are used, for allowing access to applications on a Windows Phone, even the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app has to be added to that list. In that case the Windows Phone Store variant can simply be added, based on the link in the Windows Phone Store, but the Download Center variant is a bit more challenging. In this post I’ll provide the required information to find the app product ID for the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app for Windows Phone. As the app might be updated in the …

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Email profile behavior after retiring a mobile device

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This blog post will be a follow-up on my blog post of last week about the three layers of protection with conditional access for Exchange email. During that post I tried to stress the importance of protecting, and being in control of, company email. In this blog post I will go through different scenarios to show the behavior of company email after retiring a mobile device from Microsoft Intune. I will show the results of these scenarios for both the native email app and the Outlook app. Scenarios Before I start with the different scenarios it’s important to mention that, after a mobile device is successfully retired from Microsoft Intune, the user will be able to configure company email on its mobile device. This is …

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The three layers of protection with conditional access for Exchange email

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In this blog post I would like to write a little about, what I like to call, the three layers of protection with conditional access for Exchange email. No, I don’t mean that a device has to be 1) enrolled in Microsoft Intune, 2) workplace joined and 3) compliant with any Microsoft Intune compliance policies. What I do mean is related to company data, in this case company email, and the protection of it on mobile devices. That means three different layers of protection for Exchange email on mobile devices. From basic protection to almost complete protection. The first layer of protection The first, basic, layer of protection is simply using an Exchange Online Policy, or an Exchange On-premises Policy. These policies make it possible …

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Microsoft MVP 2015!

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Yeah! Today I received that great email that I’m awarded the 2015 Microsoft MVP Award in Enterprise Client Management. Probably many already read this on Twitter or on Facebook, but I just had to write a small post on my blog. Not just because I’m very honored, very proud and very exited of it, but also because I just need to thank a few people in particular that really helped me out in different ways. First of all, a really big thank you to my wife and kids for letting me spent so much time with, what my wife likes to call my “second wife”, my laptop. A very close second is Niall Brady. Thanks Niall for constantly pushing me! I’m ready for another community …

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