Month: October 2019

Conditional access and ipadOS

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Update: Azure AD has taken a change in how they recognize the browsers so conditional access will now work as expected when creating an iPad conditional access policy and browsing to the modern desktop-class browsing experience on iPadOS. For more information see this article. Maybe a little overdue, but this week is all about ipadOS in combination with conditional access. At the end of September, Apple released ipadOS. A new platform for iPad. One of the ideas behind ipadOS is to provide “desktop-class browsing with Safari”. That desktop-class browsing is achieved by making sure that the Safari browser on ipadOS will present itself as a Safari browser on macOS. That change introduces a few challenges in combination with conditional access. I know that a lot …

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Windows 10 MDM (PowerShell) scripting

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A long, long time ago, I wrote about the MDM WMI Bridge provider. Nowadays I notice that the MDM WMI Bridge provider is still an unknown configuration layer for many IT admins. That’s why I’ve decided to do another post about the MDM WMI Bridge provider. A quick reminder: the MDM WMI Bridge provider is used to map the CSPs to WMI. This time my post is more focused on providing some examples and guidance. Besides that it’s also a nice addition on my latest posts about Windows 10 MDM configurations, policy refresh and troubleshooting. I’ll start this post by showing how to configure device settings and I’ll end this post by showing how to trigger device actions. Keep in mind that this post is …

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Scheduling a reboot via Windows 10 MDM

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This week is also about configuring Windows 10 devices. This week is all about scheduling a reboot on a Windows 10 device by using Microsoft Intune and Windows 10 MDM. That can be useful for scheduling reboots on for example shared devices. Simply making sure that even those type of devices get a reboot every now and then, or making sure that specific configurations or installations are getting fully applied. This can be achieved by using the Reboot CSP. In this post I’ll have a look at the available policy settings and the configuration of those policy settings. I’ll end this post by having a look at the results of the configuration. Available policy settings The Reboot CSP can be used to configure reboot settings. …

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