Month: November 2017

Combining the powers of the Intune Management Extension and Chocolatey

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A bit more than a week ago the Intune Management Extension was added to Microsoft Intune to facilitate the ability to run PowerShell scripts on Windows 10 devices that are managed via MDM. That addition opens a whole new world for managing Windows 10 devices via MDM. Looking at app deployment specifically, this enables the administrator to look at something like Chocolatey for deploying packages. That would make the app deployment via Microsoft Intune suddenly flexible. In this blog post I’ll start with a little introduction about the Intune Management Extension and Chocolatey, followed by the configuration of a PowerShell script to install Chocolatey packages. I’ll end this post by looking at the end result. Introduction Let’s start with a short introduction about the awesome …

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Notify end-user about non-compliant device

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This week is all about device compliance policies. Well, actually it’s all about what actions can be triggered for non-compliant devices. Since recently it’s possible to configure actions for non-compliance. Previously the action for non-compliant devices was that the device would be marked as non-compliant. That action is still configured by default, but it’s now also possible to configure additional end-user notifications. In this blog post I’ll provide a short introduction to the actions for non-compliant devices, followed by the required configurations. I’ll end this post with the end-user experience. Introduction Let’s start with a short introduction. Device compliance policies now contains configuration properties for the configuration of Actions for noncompliance. The Actions for noncompliance allows administrators to configure a time-ordered sequence of actions that …

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Auto-enroll Windows 10 devices using Group Policy

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This week is all about creating awareness for the automatic MDM enrollment feature, using ‘Group Policy, that is introduced in Windows 10, version 1709. In some scenarios that might not sounds very interesting. Especially when looking at cloud only scenarios. However, this feature is very interesting in scenarios when organizations want to move to the cloud. Think about co-management. Co-management helps organizations to slowly move their device management capabilities to the cloud, by allowing multiple device management agents on a single device. Microsoft just released co-management in Microsoft Intune and co-management is also available in the latest Technical Preview releases of Configuration Manager. So, imagine a scenario in which a currently Configuration Manager managed device can receive a Group Policy setting to also auto-enroll the …

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Super easy start with reporting and the Intune Data Warehouse

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This week is all about creating awareness for the reporting capabilities of Microsoft Intune. An often heard request. An introduction to the recently introduced Intune Data Warehouse and how easy it can be used to build reports that provide insight into the Intune environment. The Intune Data Warehouse provides access to more information about the Intune environment than the Azure portal. With the Intune Data Warehouse it’s possible to access historical Intune data, data refreshed on a daily cadence and a data model using the OData standard. In this blog post I’ll show how to easily connect to the Intune Data Warehouse, using two different methods, and I’ll end this post with the end result after connecting. Requirements Before starting with creating the connection to …

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