Automagically convert Intune managed devices to AutoPilot

This week a short blog post about my tweet of a bit more than a week ago. In that tweet I mentioned a new easy method to automagically convert Intune managed devices to AutoPilot. That method makes some scenarios a whole lot easier. Like for example what I did in this post to get the AutoPilot device information of Intune managed devices. That type of custom scripting is not needed anymore! As I got many reactions to that tweet, mainly related to the location of that configuration, I thought it would be good to make a short post describing the configuration option and the expected behavior. In this post I’ll provide the steps to make this configuration and I’ll describe the expected behavior. There is …

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Join us at Experts Live Europe in Prague

A bit less than two weeks from now, October 25-26, Experts Live Europe will be in Prague. Together with my finest colleague, Arjan Vroege, I will deliver two sessions! And we hope to see you there! Experts Live Europe is a Microsoft community conference with a focus on Microsoft cloud, datacenter and workplace management. During this conference, top experts from around the world present discussion panels, ask-the-experts sessions and breakout sessions and cover the latest products, technologies and solutions. About our sessions The maybe-not-that-sexy version of modern management – A true story – In this session, we will take you into the real world of modern management. Modern management is a great buzzword and by now we all know the lovely story of modern management. …

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Quick tip: Location services required for enhanced jailbreak detection

This week a short blog post about an end-user experience that might be slightly unexpected when using an iOS device. That experience is the “Turn on location services” compliance message in the Company Portal app. That message is caused by the Enhanced jailbreak detection compliance policy setting, as  that setting uses the location services of the iOS device for the enhanced detection, In this post I’ll first show the mentioned end-user experience, as that’s the trigger for this post, followed by the configuration that triggers the experience. End-user experience Let’s start this time by looking at the end-user experience. The user will notice that the iOS device is non-complaint and after opening the Company Portal app, the user will get the message “Turn on location …

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Deploy customized Win32 apps via Microsoft Intune

Last week Microsoft announced the ability to deploy Win32 apps via Microsoft Intune during Microsoft Ignite. That takes away one of the biggest challenges when looking at modern management and Microsoft Intune. I know that I’m not the first to blog about this subject, but I do think that this subject demands a spot on my blog. Besides that, I’ll show in this post that the configuration looks a lot like deploying apps via ConfigMgr. Not just from the perspective of the configuration options, but also from the perspective of the configuration challenges when the installation contains multiple files. In this post I’ll show the configuration steps, followed by the end-user experience, when deploying a customized Adobe Reader DC app (including the latest patch). Pre-process …

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