Software Center is getting close to awesome!

It’s almost been too long ago since I’ve done my latest post about Software Center. Luckily there are enough reasons introduced with Configuration Manager, version 1806,  to devote another blog post to Software Center, as Software Center is getting close to awesome. Yes, I deliberately say close to awesome, as we always need to leave options open for improvement. In this post I’ll focus on three great new additions to Software Center: 1) infrastructure improvements, 2) a custom tab and 3) maintenance windows. No more application catalog website point and web service point required Let’s start with the first and, in my opinion, best improvement related to Software Center. Starting with Configuration Manager, version 1806, available user-targeted apps can be made available in Software Center …

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Single full-screen Kiosk Browser app in kiosk mode

This week is all about configuring a single full-screen app in kiosk mode and more specifically, configuring the Kiosk Browser app as a single full-screen app in kiosk mode. A couple of years ago, I also did a post about setting up kiosk mode on Windows 10. This time it’s not about using OMA-URI’s, this time is all about using the available options within the portal. Spoiler alert, it became a whole lot easier! Deployment scenarios that this adds on to are, for example, AutoPilot self-deploying mode and enrollment via a device enrollment manager. In this post I’ll go through a few prerequisites for the configuration, followed by the actual configuration of the Kiosk Browser app in kiosk mode. I’ll end this post by looking …

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