Windows 10 and MAM-WE – Part 1: Configuration

This week another blog post about Windows 10. This time in combination with mobile app management without enrollment (MAM-WE). Due to the size of the blog post, I’ve decided to divide this post in 2 parts. This weeks post will provide a short introduction, followed by the required configurations. Next weeks blog post will be about the end-user experience. Introduction MAM-WE, for Windows 10, relies on Windows Information Protection (WIP) in combination with a new enrollment flow in Windows 10, version 1703. That new enrollment flow enables users to enroll their personal device for receiving only MAM policies. Those MAM policies are only applicable to activities performed by the work account and do not apply to the personal account. The part that makes it a …

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Deep dive configuring Windows 10 ADMX-backed policies

A couple of weeks ago, I did a my blog post about configuring a Windows 10 ADMX-backed policy. That time I used a relatively easy setting to configure and I briefly mentioned how to configure a more advanced setting. That raised some questions, which triggered me to do a deep dive in configuring those more advanced settings. In this blog post I’ll show, in a step-by-step overview,  how to construct the OMA-URI setting and value for a more advanced setting. Setting I’ll use the ClientConnectionEncryptionLevel setting as an example again. A big difference with the previous time is that the docs are greatly improved. By default, the docs now already provide information about the corresponding Group Policy setting and the location of the Group Policy …

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Conditional access and named locations

This week another blog post about a recently introduced feature that can be used in commination with conditional access, named named locations. Within conditional access policies, named locations can be used like trusted IPs. The complication with trusted IPs was that it’s actually a feature configuration of multi-factor authentication. That did not really make a lot of sense. In this post I’ll look at the configuration of named locations and how those configurations can be used within a conditional access policy. A very good scenario for named locations in a conditional access policy is using Office 365 in a terminal services environment. It enables organizations to make an exclusions for a specific named location. In this post I’ll use an example that will blocks access …

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Allow users to connect remotely to this computer via Windows 10 MDM (ADMX-style)

This week another blog post about new MDM capabilities that are introduced in Windows 10, version 1703. This post is focused on enabling the setting to allow users to connect remotely to this computer via Remote Desktop. To enable that specific setting, Windows 10, version 1703, introduced ADMX-backed policy via the Policy CSP. In this post I’ll provide a short introduction about ADMX-backed policies, which is actually a short summary of the Microsoft docs, and I’ll show a configuration example. I’ll end this post by showing the end-user experience. Introduction Starting with Windows 10, version 1703, the Policy CSP can now also handle ADMX-backed policies. In an ADMX-backed policy, an administrative template contains the metadata of a GPO. Each administrative template specifies the registry keys, …

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Quick tip: View device in Azure Active Directory

This week a quick and short blog post about the feature, in Configuration Manager, to view a device in Azure AD. This is small new feature that was introduced in Configuration Manager 1702 and is mainly used for getting additional information about the compliance state of domain joined devices. Devices managed by a Configuration Manager client. In this post I’ll show the steps to use that feature and I’ll show the provided information. View device in Azure AD The feature to view a device in Azure AD, is only available when looking at non-compliant or compliant devices.  This can be achieved by going through the steps below. 1 Open the Configuration Manager administration console and navigate to Monitoring > Overview > Compliance Settings > Compliance …

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