Getting started with Advanced Endpoint Analytics

This week is another post about one of the new Intune Suite add-on capabilities. This time it’s all about Advanced Endpoint Analytics. Advanced Endpoint Analytics adds-on to Endpoint Analytics by providing organizations access to more intelligence to gain even deeper insights into the user experience. It provides IT administrators with the tools to proactively detect and remediate issues that impact user productivity. All of that can be achieved with the new capabilities that are part of Advanced Endpoint Analytics. Those capabilities are anomaly detection, enhanced device timeline, and device scopes. Three powerful capabilities that enable IT administrators to use machine learning to identity anomalies, to have a detailed device timeline, and to have the ability to look at a specific set of devices. When an organization has …

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Getting started with Endpoint Privilege Management

This week is another post about one of the new Intune Suite add-on capabilities. This time it’s all about Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM). At this moment EPM is still in preview, but once it becomes general available it will be licensed as part of the Microsoft Intune Suite. EPM enables organizations to provide standard user permissions to their users and still enable those users to complete tasks that require elevated permissions. Those tasks can include the installation of applications, updating device drivers, running diagnostics, and more. With that, EPM fits perfectly in the Zero Trust architecture of any organization. It enables the principle of using the least privilege, while still allowing users to run specifically approved tasks with elevated permissions. So, users remain productive and elevations are …

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Working with Windows Autopilot deployment events

This week is a short post about the Windows Autopilot deployment events that are registered in Microsoft Intune. In a way, a follow up post on this post of about a year ago. While that post was mainly focused on informing IT administrators about the status of Windows Autopilot deployments, this post will be more focused on awareness. Awareness for the deviceManagementAutopilotEvent resource type in Microsoft Graph that contains all the information about Windows Autopilot deployment events. It’s still an often forgotten resource type that does provide a lot of useful information about Windows Autopilot deployments and is also the basis for Windows Autopilot deployment report. This post will provide some more details of the properties that are available within that resource type, the content …

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