Month: August 2023

Getting started with Windows 365 Switch

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This week is a follow-up on a blog post of a couple of months ago about a new feature for Windows 365 Enterprise. That post was focused on Windows 365 Boot and that post mentioned that last year Microsoft announced many nice upcoming features with Windows 365 App, Windows 365 Boot, Windows 365 Offline and Windows 365 Switch and more recently even a great licensing enhancement with Windows 365 Frontline. This time it’s about Windows 365 Switch, which is another new feature that was announced and recently released in public preview. Windows 365 Switch provides users with the ability to easily switch between the local desktop and a Windows 365 Cloud PC. That provides a seamless experience via the Task View feature on Windows 11. …

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Quick tip: App inventory for corporate-owned Android Enterprise devices

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This week another short post. Not just because I missed blogging during my vacation, but mainly to create awareness for a very interesting and often requested feature. That feature is the app inventory for corporate-owned Android Enterprise devices. Until recently the app inventory was not available for corporate-owned Android Enterprise devices, but that has changed. With the recent Microsoft Intune service release (2307), Microsoft has now made some changes to app management and app inventory. Those changes are actually triggered by Google, as Google has started deprecating features and methods of the Google Play EMM API. And even though there are alternatives within that API available, the general advise is to move to the modern Android Management API. That’s exactly what Microsoft is doing and …

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Quick tip: Adding custom support information to corporate-owned Android Enterprise devices

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This first post after my vacation is a quick tip about adding custom support information to corporate-owned Android Enterprise devices. Custom support information enables IT administrators, to customize the short message that is shown when users try to change a setting that is managed by the organziation, to customize the long message that is shown when looking at more information about the short message, and to show information on the device lock screen. Especially the latter customization can be useful for showing some specific information to the user about the device. Think about easily providing the user access the (management) name of the device, or the serial number of the device. This post will walk through the configuration options, followed with the user experience. Configuring …

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