Month: May 2015

Manage Windows Defender, of Windows 10, via OMA-DM

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A couple of weeks ago I did a blog post about the different management options for Windows 8.1. In that specific post I already mentioned OMA-DM as a very valid method to manage Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 devices. To refresh the memories, OMA Device Management (OMA-DM) is an open management standard designed for mobile devices. The nice thing is that OMA-DM is also fully utilized in Windows 10, even the desktop version. That means that OMA-DM can be used to fully manage specific parts of a Windows 10 device. In this post I’ll show how OMA-DM can be used to fully manage Windows Defender in Windows 10. For Windows 10 it’s possible to manage all the settings available for Windows Defender. This includes everything, …

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How to use the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app for Windows Phone 8.1 from the Download Center

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A bit more than a month ago Microsoft released the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app specifically for Windows Phone 8.1 in the Download Center. This version of the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app is created specifically for Windows Phone 8.1 and later, as it’s created in the APPX format, which is not supported by Windows Phone 8. It can be used by administrators to deploy to end-users who do not have access to the Windows Phone Store. The main feature of this version of the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app is the ability to show the configured Terms and Conditions in Microsoft Intune standalone. In this blog post I’ll describe how this version of the Microsoft Intune Company Portal app can be signed and how …

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Windows 8.1 and the different management options

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In this blog post I would like to address a topic that’s often forgotten in the mobile devices management discussion. That topic is based on the question, “How are we going to manage the Windows 8.1 devices?”. Yes, I know, technically speaking a Windows 8.1 device is not a mobile device, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t treat it like one. In this blog post I’ll go through the different management options for Windows 8.1 from a Microsoft Intune standalone and a Microsoft Intune hybrid perspective. Also, I will provide an overview of the related management prerequisites, from both perspectives, and I’ll show the end-user enrollment possibilities. Management options The introduction of Microsoft Intune introduced a lot of management options for all the iOS, …

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Remote device actions in ConfigMgr

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Updated May 15, 2015: Yesterday the latest service pack, for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and ConfigMgr 2012 SP1, was released. With the new functionalities in this service pack it’s now also possible to perform the same remote device actions in ConfigMgr 2012. The look-and-feel is an exact match with everything described in this post about the first technical preview of ConfigMgr vNext. This morning I’ve started exploring the technical preview of ConfigMgr vNext. I’ve been quite busy tweeting about the stuff I could easily find, but I would also like to devote a small blog post to some new features, from a ConfigMgr perspective, for mobile devices. The reason for that is because it’s cool and because the speed of it scared the crap out of …

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