Android Enterprise and Microsoft Intune: And the previously missing use case

This week is all about an addition to my previous post about the device management jungle of Android Enterprise. In that post I already did a brief look at the future and what Android 11 would bring to the table. At that time Microsoft Intune did not yet support a deployment scenario to address the Corporate-Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE) use case. The good news is: that has changed! Microsoft Intune now contains the deployment scenario Corporate-Owned Work Profile, which is currently still in preview, and that deployment scenario can address the COPE use case. With this blog I want to provide a refreshed overview of the different deployment scenarios and the use cases that are addressed. However, the main focus of this post is the …

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Windows 10 MDM Bridge WMI Provider: Settings template

This week my post is a few days later, as my post is an extension of my session at the Workplace Ninja Virtual Summit 2020. At the virtual summit I did a session about Getting to know the Windows 10 MDM WMI Bridge provider and during my session I shared how to easily work with the Windows 10 MDM Bridge WMI provider. Similar to using Microsoft Intune to address the different CSPs, we can also use PowerShell via the WMI bridge. The main thing that I’ve showed at the end of that session was a setting template, basically a PowerShell-function, that can be used to set, adjust and remove nearly all settings via the MDM WMI Bridge provider. That PowerShell-script is available below and I’ve …

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Getting started with Endpoint Data Loss Prevention

Completely fresh after my vacation I thought it would be awesome to have a look at Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP), which was announced during Microsoft Inspire. Endpoint DLP extends the activity monitoring and protection capabilities of DLP to sensitive content on Windows 10 devices. The best part of it is that the actual functionality is built-in to Windows 10 (and the Edge Chromium browser). No additional agent is required, just the onboarding of the device. In this post I want to start with a short introduction about Endpoint DLP, followed by the actions to onboard devices and to configure DLP policies and settings. I want to end this post by having a quick look at the end-user experience. Introduction to Endpoint DLP Let’s start …

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