Android

Block personally-owned devices

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My last blog post just before a short vacation, is about using the differentiation between corporate-owned devices and personally-owned devices. The best scenario for this differentiation is preventing the MDM enrollment of personally-owned devices. In that scenario it’s still possible to use MAM-WE with personally-owned devices, as only the MDM enrollment will be blocked. In other words, it’s still possible to enable the end-users to securely access their corporate data on their personally-owned device. The ability to block personally-owned devices is introduced with Configuration Manager 1706 and was already available for a while in Microsoft Intune standalone. In this post I’ll walk through the configuration steps for Microsoft Intune hybrid and standalone. I’ll end this post with the end-user experience. Configuration Before starting with the …

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Easily predeclaring corporate-owned devices

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This week another post about (easily) predeclaring corporate-owned devices. Starting next week, I’ll introduce some new feature of Configuration Manager 1706. This post is basically a part 2 of my post about predeclaring corporate-owned devices. The big difference, this time it’s about Microsoft Intune standalone were this feature is just recently introduced. Predeclaring corporate-owned devices is an easy method to differentiate between corporate and personal devices and immediately tag those devices. I’ll start this post with a little bit information, followed by the configuration. I’ll end this post with the administrator experience. Information Let’s start with some information about predeclaring corporate-owned devices. An Intune administrator can now create and import a comma-separated values (.csv) file that lists International Mobile Equipment Identifier (IMEI) numbers or serial …

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Require minimum platform version or app version when using MAM-WE

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This week a relatively short blog post about the recently introduced feature to require a minimum platform version, app version and Intune app protection policy SDK version, when using MAM-WE. This enables organizations to require end-users to update their personal devices when using apps to connect to company resources. That can be very useful when specific platform and/or app updates introduce important new features, or fix important bugs. In other words, a great feature! In this post I’ll go through the available settings, the configuration options and the end-user experience. Configuration Let’s start by having a look at the configuration. I’ll do that by first going through the available settings, followed by going through how to configure those settings in an app protection policy. Available …

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Combining MAM-WE and app configuration

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This blog post is about a potentially really great feature, which is a combination of MAM-WE and app configuration policies. This enables the administrator to provide a preconfigured app, once the end-users signs in to the app with company credentials. I named it a potentially really great feature, because the availability of apps that support this combination of features will make or break the use of this feature. In this post I’ll provide a quick introduction to this feature, followed by a configuration example with the Intune Managed Browser.I’ll end this post with the end-user experience. Introduction Let’s start with a quick introduction. MAM-WE with app configuration, also known as MAM targeted configuration, allows an app to receive configuration data through the Intune App SDK. …

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Conditional access and apps that cannot be installed on the device

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This week a relatively short blog post related to conditional access. More specifically, about the ability to create a compliance policy with an apps that cannot be installed list. Before starting, let’s start with the minor detail that this is a Microsoft Intune hybrid only configuration at this moment. Introduced in Configuration Manager 1702. I’ll start this post with a short introduction, followed by the required configurations. Including how to find the required information. I’ll end this post with the end-user experience on an iOS and Android device. Introduction Let’s start with a short introduction about the apps that cannot be installed list. The apps that cannot be installed list is an additional rule that can be configured as part of a compliance policy. When …

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Block and allow apps on Samsung KNOX devices

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This week a blog post about the capabilities to block apps from starting and to allow apps to install on Samsung KNOX devices. I thought it would be good to mention these capabilities, as many are only familiar with the capability to work with compliant or noncompliant apps on Android. That capability can only be used for reporting functionalities. These capabilities are specifically for Samsung KNOX devices and can truly, and literally, block apps from starting. During this post I’ll go through the high-level steps to configure a blocked app and the end-user experience for both capabilities. Information Let’s start with some information about what can be achieved by using the block apps from starting and the allow apps to install capabilities. When using the …

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Predeclaring corporate-owned devices

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This week something related to last week. This week will be about predeclaring corporate-owned devices. In other words, making sure that the Device Owner of the specified devices is set to Company after enrollment. It’s also a much easier solution, for a scripted solution that I created more than year ago, for automagically setting the mobile Device Owner to Company. In this blog post I’ll provide some information about this feature, I’ll show the configuration of this feature and I’ll show the administrator experience of this feature. Please note that this functionality is only available for Microsoft Intune hybrid. Information Predeclaring corporate-owned devices allows organizations to identify corporate-owned devices by importing the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers, or, for iOS devices, by importing the …

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Categorizing devices

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This week something completely different as the last couple of weeks. This week no conditional access and nothing specifically related to Windows 10 devices. This week it’s all about categorizing devices. Within Microsoft Intune hybrid this functionality is named Device Categories and within Microsoft Intune standalone this functionality is named Device Group Mapping. Both of these functionalities can be used to achieve the same goal. In this post I’ll provide some more information, I’ll describe the configuration in Microsoft Intune hybrid and Microsoft Intune standalone and I’ll show the end-user experience. Information Categorizing devices can be useful to differentiate between device categories. For example, to differentiate between devices used by users of the sales department and the users of the human resources department. When categorizing …

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Conditional access for Exchange Online to the max

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This week I want to show another look at conditional for Exchange Online. I want to do that by providing a scenario. That scenario will cover more than just conditional access. Mainly because conditional access simply blocks access to non-compliant devices, but what if I want to take it one step further? What if I also want to prevent potential data leakage? In that case I can’t just look at conditional access. In that case I also need to add mobile app management to the playing field. This post will address those subjects for Exchange Online. Scenario Now lets start with the scenario that I want to cover. Even though I know that I will use Microsoft Intune and related technologies to do the configuration, …

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Conditional access for browsers

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This week I’ll provide an overview about the latest addition to conditional access, which is conditional access for browsers. It’s a feature that many have been waiting for and a feature that is indeed a pretty welcome addition to conditional access. This post will provide the basics about conditional for browses, the configuration of conditional access for browsers and the end-user experience with conditional access for browsers. It will also be the introduction for something much better next week. Introduction Conditional access allows IT organizations to manage access to corporate email, files and other resources based on customizable conditions that ensure security and compliance. The addition of conditional access for browsers addresses the backdoor that still existed for end-users connecting to the Outlook Web App …

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