Day: June 22, 2020

Installing applications by using Windows Package Manager

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This week is all about installing applications via Microsoft Intune by using Windows Package Manager. A few years ago I wrote a post about something similar by using Chocolatey. That time the idea was to simply leverage the PowerShell script functionality that was just introduced. This time the idea is to leverage the Win32 app functionality together with the Windows Package Manager that is just introduced. Leveraging the Win32 app functionality provides me with a few advantages above simply leveraging the PowerShell script functionality. In my opinion the main advantages are the flexibility of the Win32 app model (think about requirements, detection rules, dependencies and notifications) and the ability to use Win32 apps during the Enrollment Status Page (ESP). Creating the Win32 app would cost …

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Quick tip: Allow access to unlicensed admins

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This week a quick extra blog post about a small nice new feature that became available in Microsoft Intune. That feature is the setting to allow access to Microsoft Intune for unlicensed admins. That setting enables an organization to toggle a tenant-wide setting that removes the Intune license requirement for administrators when accessing the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin console (and Microsoft Graph). Once toggled it can never be reinstated. The following two steps walk through the process of allowing access to unlicensed admins Open the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center portal and navigate to Tenant administration > Roles > Administrator Licensing to open the Intune roles | Administrator Licensing page On the Intune roles | Administrator Licensing page, click Allow access to unlicensed admins On the Allow access to unlicensed admins verification window, click Yes After following …

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