Month: December 2020

Easier managing local administrators via Windows 10 MDM on Windows 10 20H2 and later

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This week back to the Windows platform. This week is again about managing local administrators on Windows 10 devices. Even in a modern world, there can still be a need for managing the local administrators on a Windows 10 devices and often that still requires more flexibility than provided with the default Azure AD functionality. I’ve also discussed managing local administrators already multiple times – either by using a Windows 10 MDM policy setting or by using proactive remediations – and this time it’s about a new method that became available in Windows 10, version 20H2 and later. That method is a new Windows 10 MDM policy setting. In this post, I’ll provide an introduction to that new policy setting and I’ll show how to …

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Getting started with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for iOS

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Microsoft recently declared Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) for iOS – previously known as Microsoft Defender ATP for iOS – general available. That’s really good news and also a really good trigger for a new blog post. This post will be similar to my post earlier about MDE for Android. MDE for iOS provides protection against phishing and unsafe network connections. All events and alerts around those subjects will be available in the Microsoft Defender Security Center and will be used to determine the risk level of the device. To add-on to that, through the connection with Microsoft Intune that risk information can be used to determine the compliance of the device with the company policies and to determine the eventual access of the device …

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Android Enterprise and Microsoft Intune: And Android Device Policy

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I’ve mentioned Android Device Policy before, earlier this year, in my post about Android Enterprise and Microsoft Intune. In that post, however, I’ve only briefly mentioned that app, while that app is an important piece of the Microsoft management solution for corporate-owned devices. That’s why I thought it would be good to devote a blog post to that app. To simply show it’s importance. Android Device Policy is really important for configuring managed devices and also provides some nice capabilities. The importance should be familiar with any IT administrator, responsible for managing Android devices, and those capabilities are sometimes slightly hidden, but provide a good starting point for troubleshooting. Especially when verifying whether settings are already applied or not. In this post I’ll start with …

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