Conditional access and ipadOS

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Update: Azure AD has taken a change in how they recognize the browsers so conditional access will now work as expected when creating an iPad conditional access policy and browsing to the modern desktop-class browsing experience on iPadOS. For more information see this article. Maybe a little overdue, but this week is all about ipadOS in combination with conditional access. At the end of September, Apple released ipadOS. A new platform for iPad. One of the ideas behind ipadOS is to provide “desktop-class browsing with Safari”. That desktop-class browsing is achieved by making sure that the Safari browser on ipadOS will present itself as a Safari browser on macOS. That change introduces a few challenges in combination with conditional access. I know that a lot …

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Windows 10 MDM (PowerShell) scripting

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A long, long time ago, I wrote about the MDM WMI Bridge provider. Nowadays I notice that the MDM WMI Bridge provider is still an unknown configuration layer for many IT admins. That’s why I’ve decided to do another post about the MDM WMI Bridge provider. A quick reminder: the MDM WMI Bridge provider is used to map the CSPs to WMI. This time my post is more focused on providing some examples and guidance. Besides that it’s also a nice addition on my latest posts about Windows 10 MDM configurations, policy refresh and troubleshooting. I’ll start this post by showing how to configure device settings and I’ll end this post by showing how to trigger device actions. Keep in mind that this post is …

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Scheduling a reboot via Windows 10 MDM

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This week is also about configuring Windows 10 devices. This week is all about scheduling a reboot on a Windows 10 device by using Microsoft Intune and Windows 10 MDM. That can be useful for scheduling reboots on for example shared devices. Simply making sure that even those type of devices get a reboot every now and then, or making sure that specific configurations or installations are getting fully applied. This can be achieved by using the Reboot CSP. In this post I’ll have a look at the available policy settings and the configuration of those policy settings. I’ll end this post by having a look at the results of the configuration. Available policy settings The Reboot CSP can be used to configure reboot settings. …

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Windows 10 MDM troubleshooting

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This week another new blog post related to Windows 10 MDM. In the recent weeks I’ve discussed policy refresh, some configurations and now some troubleshooting. This post is also triggered by my previous as I used the MDM Diagnostics Tool (MdmDiagnosticsTool.exe) as an example. Based on that example I’ve received some requests for more information. There are more useful tools like dsregcmd, but this post will focus on the MDM Diagnostics Tool, as there’s not that much information available. In this post I’ll provide information about the usage and results of the MDM Diagnostics Tool as having the right information is really useful for troubleshooting Windows 10 MDM managed devices. Introduction of the MDM Diagnostics Tool The MDM Diagnostics Tool is a command line tool …

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Triggering devices to upload (diagnostic) files to cloud storage

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This week is all about triggering Windows 10 devices to upload (diagnostic) files to cloud storage. That can be very useful for gathering information and diagnosing potential issues. Starting with Windows 10, version 1903, Microsoft added additional functionality to the DiagnosticLog CSP. The DiagnosticLog CSP is used for generating and collecting diagnostic information from the device and the additional functionality enables triggering devices to upload existing event logs, log files, and registry values to cloud storage. That actually opens the route to some really nice scenarios regarding the collection of information on MDM managed Windows 10 devices. I’ll start this post by providing some information about the required setting, followed by going through the steps of configuring that setting. I’ll end this post by showing …

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Enable password-less sign-in with security keys

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This week is all about enabling password-less sign-in with security keys on Windows 10. I know that a lot has been written about that subject already, but it’s that big that it still deserves a spot on my blog. Especially the Microsoft Intune configuration belongs on my blog. In this post I’ll show the required configurations that should be performed, by an administrator and the the user, to enable the user to use a security key as a sign-in method. My user will use a Yubikey 5 NFC security key. I’ll start this post with the authentication method policy that should be configured in Azure AD, followed by the steps for a user to register a security key. I’ll end this post by showing the …

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Windows 10 MDM policy refresh

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This week is all about the Windows 10 MDM policy refresh. More specifically, the policy refresh behavior starting with Windows 10, version 1903. Starting with Windows 10, version 1903, the policy refresh got a lot more interesting. Before Windows 10, version 1903, the policy refresh would simply tattoo the settings once during the device checking. Starting with Windows 10, version 1903, the settings that are implemented by the Policy CSP are actually refreshed during the device check-in. Not just tattooed once, but actually re-applied when for example adjusted by the user. Also, similar to that, those settings are also removed when no longer assigned. In this post I’ll have a look at the triggers for a device check-in, the different device check-in actions and the …

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Real-time application installation for devices

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This week a new blog post again! During my vacation, I’ve been looking at some statistics of my blog and I noticed that my posts about app deployment related subjects are getting a lot of traction lately. That was a trigger for to make this post about a really nice application deployment feature that’s introduced in Configuration Manager, version 1906. That feature is to install applications for a device. The really nice part of this is that it uses the client notification channel to create a real-time application installation experience. In this post I’ll quickly go through the prerequisites, followed by the application deployment configuration. I’ll end this post by looking at the application installation trigger and the corresponding application requests. Optional feature Let’s start …

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Another new discovery method: Meet the Azure Active Directory Group Discovery!

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This week is back to the world of Configuration Manager. With the release of Configuration Manager, version 1906, a lot of new features are introduced. Even a few very nice pre-release features. One of these pre-release features is the subject of this post, the Azure Active Directory Group Discovery. The Azure Active Directory Group Discovery can be used to discover user groups and members of those groups from Azure AD. In case there are users found in Azure AD user groups that haven’t been previously discovered, those users will be added as user resources in Configuration Manager. A user group resource record is created when the group is a security group. In this post I’ll briefly show the prerequisites, followed by the configuration steps. I’ll …

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Android Enterprise fully managed devices and the Google Play store

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This week another post about an Android Enterprise configuration. Last week was related to company owned single-use (COSU) devices (also known as dedicated devices), while this week is related to company owned business only (COBO) devices (also known as fully managed devices). More specifically, about adding a personal touch to fully managed devices. Microsoft Intune doesn’t know the company owned personally enabled (COPE) devices, yet, but there is a feature within the fully managed devices configuration that can at least enable some more personal options to the user. That can be achieved with a simple configuration to allow access to all apps in the Google Play store. I’ll start this post with the configuration steps (and a little introduction) and I’ll end this post by …

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