Informing users with organizational messages

This week is all about the latest addition to Microsoft Intune and that is organizational messages. Organizational messages enable organizations to send important messages to their users. That might sound similar to an already existing feature that would allow organizations to send custom notifications. There are, however, some major differences. One of the major challenges with custom notifications is that Microsoft Intune can’t guarantee the delivery of the message. Besides that, it’s only available for Android and iOS. That all changes with organizational messages. Minor detail, however, is that organizational messages rely on Windows 11. Besides that, it provides organizations with a new channel to communicate important messages to users. Important messages that can help users with a better understanding of their workplace, stay informed …

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Getting started with compliance for Linux devices

This week is about a totally different platform as the last few months. This week is all about Linux devices. A few years ago, I wrote this post about supporting the unsupported platforms. This post will describe a solution that will address the biggest part of that challenge, as it will enable the compliance of Linux devices. All powered by the enrollment in Microsoft Intune. That enables organizations to require Linux devices to be compliant and enable users to be productive. Even on Linux devices. Besides that, it’s good to keep in mind that, at this point in time, it’s really only about device compliance. Configuring Linux devices is not part of the currently available functionalities. This post will describe the minor details about the …

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Simplifying the management and configuration of your favorite browser

This week is all about simplifying the management and configuration of your favorite browsers, by using Microsoft Intune. That’s definitely not the sexiest subject, but it’s important to be familiar with the easy options that are available nowadays. With the latest additions to Microsoft Intune, the management and configuration of the different browsers became more of a native functionality. Native functionality was already available for Microsoft Edge, and recently became available for Google Chrome. And now, with the recent addition of importing third-party administrative templates, it became available for every browser that could be easily managed within an on-premises environment, by using Group Policies. Besides that, there are even alternatives when really needed. This post will provide an overview of the different options for managing …

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Excluding Azure file shares from Conditional Access policies requiring MFA

This week is another short follow-up on the last couple of weeks. While the last couple of weeks were all about configuring the authentication on Azure file shares and on mapping Azure file shares, this week is all about the exclusion for multi-factor authentication (MFA). During the initial post, about using Azure AD Kerberos authentication for Azure file shares, it was mentioned that Azure AD Kerberos doesn’t support using MFA for accessing Azure file shares. The steps to prevent that, just weren’t described. And based on comments and feedback, it’s good to still walk through the steps for configuring that exclusion. This post will briefly discus the challenge, followed with the steps to create the exclusion for Azure file shares. This post will end with the …

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