Month: May 2024

Working with personal Windows devices

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This week is kind of a follow up on my post of a couple of weeks ago about why enrolling personal Windows devices might be a really bad idea. That post was focussed on advising against allowing enrolling personal Windows devices into Microsoft Intune (or any other MDM provider). The logic follow up question would be: what are the alternatives? And that’s of course a fair question. This post will be about answering that specific question. And to be quite honest, the answer might come very close to a blog post of about four years around supporting unsupported platforms. The main difference will be what Microsoft has provided over the years. And that’s a lot, especially for the Windows platform. This post will focus on …

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Remotely collecting diagnostic logs for managed Microsoft 365 apps

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This week is sort of a follow-up on a post of more then 5 years ago, about checking diagnostic logs for managed apps on iOS and Android devices. That post was focussed on how to achieve that locally on the device. Since recently, a lot has changed. The local option is still available, but it’s now also possible to remotely collect those diagnostic logs for managed Microsoft 365 apps. That make the troubleshooting of app protection and app configuration policies a lot easier. Without really difficult, or challenging, activities from an user perspective. The main thing that is left for the user, is accepting the remote collections of the diagnostics logs. There are, however, some other details to keep in mind. This post will focus …

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