Month: January 2022

Retiring non-compliant devices with Azure Logic Apps and Adaptive Cards for Teams

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This week is another follow-up on the first few weeks of this year. Those weeks the focus was on monitoring the status of the different connectors, certificates, tokens and deployments, while this week the focus is on more than just monitoring. This week will be about non-compliant devices marked to retire. That means querying information and actually performing an action. When looking at device compliance policies, the IT administrator can configure the actions for non-compliance. One of those actions is to configure Retire the noncompliant device. That action, however, won’t actually retire the device and will only add the device to the Retire Noncompliant Devices view. Once added to that view, there is still a manual action required by the IT administrator to actually retire …

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Getting started with filtering and selecting Microsoft Intune data via Microsoft Graph

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This week is another week focussed on retrieving data of Microsoft Intune via Microsoft Graph. This week, however, is not focussed on creating a solution, but on providing some guidance on getting started with filtering and selecting specific data. It’s relativly simple to retrieve a bulk of data, but in many cases it might be more efficient and better performing to immediately filter the data and only select specific objects and properties. This post will provide a closer look at the basics of the main query parameters and show how to use them to filter data immediately in the request. The examples provided in this post are using the managedDevice objects as example and are all tested by using Microsoft Graph Explorer. Important: The Microsoft …

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Windows Insider MVP 2022!

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Not at the beginning of the year anymore, but that doesn’t make it any less special and that still makes an awesome start of the year! I just received that great email stating that I’m re-awarded as a Windows Insider MVP! Still a great feeling! I feel really proud, honored and privileged to be awarded with my fourth Windows Insider MVP award and to already been holding the Microsoft MVP (Enterprise Mobility) award for seven years! Just awesome! No other words. Of course none of this would be possible without the support of my great family! I love them and couldn’t do this without their support! With their support, I’m ready for another awesome year! 

Monitoring Windows Autopilot deployments with Azure Logic Apps and Adaptive Cards for Teams

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This week is another follow-up on the last couple of weeks. The last couple of weeks the focus was on monitoring the status of the different connectors, certificates and tokens, while this week the focus is on monitoring deployments. More specifically, on monitoring Windows Autopilot deployments. Especially when dealing with many (remote) Windows Autopilot deployments, it can be useful to retrieve some deployment triggers without constantly having to check the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center. That can help with getting a good feeling about the stability and with getting triggered when users deal with failed Windows Autopilot deployments (as not all users call IT about failures). This post walks through the main components that are required to query Windows Autopilot deployment status information in Microsoft …

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Collection of information for monitoring the status of connectors, certificates and tokens

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This week is a follow-up on last week. Last week the focus was on providing an example for monitoring the Apple MDM push certificate with Azure Logic Apps and Adaptive Cards for Teams and this week the focus is on providing more endpoints in Microsoft Graph that can be used for monitoring all different connectors, certificates and tokens. This blog post will provide a collection of the different endpoints, the properties to verify and example queries to use. All summarized in tables, including links to the documentation. The following connectors, certificates and tokens are addressed within this post. Note: This list of connectors, certificates and tokens is made based on the information available within Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center (Tenant administration > Connectors and tokens). …

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Monitoring Apple MDM push certificate with Azure Logic Apps and Adaptive Cards for Teams

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This new year starts again with something completely new. That means, some of the technology hasn’t be part of any of the posts on this blog before. This post will provide a look at using Azure Logic Apps for querying Microsoft Intune (via Microsoft Graph) and posting the results in Microsoft Teams. That’s an awesome combination for automating administrative tasks and triggering IT administrators to perform actions. The idea of this post is to show the power of that combination and to show the simplicity to automate administrative tasks. This post provides a simple example that will query status information about the Apple MDM push certificate in Microsoft Intune and posts that information in an adaptive card in a Microsoft Teams chat, when action is …

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