ConfigMgr 1511

Reset passcode via the Company Portal website

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This week a blog post about the new ability in the Company Portal website to reset the passcode of a mobile device. Before only the administrator could reset the end-users’ passcode, but this has changed. Starting with the November update, of Microsoft Intune, a new option Reset Passcode is added to the Company Portal website. This option is available when the end-user is looking at the information of a specific mobile device. In this blog post I will go through the complete end-user experience. Starting with the end-user experience in the Company Portal website, followed by the end-user experience on the mobile device. I will end this post with a summarization per platform that will show the behavior of the (new) passcode. Also, a bit …

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Many reasons to look at ConfigMgr 1511

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At this moment Microsoft has just released System Center Configuration Manager (version 1511). This build was released to MSDN subscribers last week and is now general available and publically announced by Microsoft. During this blog post I will refer to this release as ConfigMgr 1511. In this blog post I will post my five main reasons to start looking at ConfigMgr 1511 as soon as possible. This will be followed by a list with great improvements that could also be good reasons to start looking. Before I start with all those reasons it might be worth mentioning that it’s possible to do an in-place upgrade of ConfigMgr 2012 to ConfigMgr 1511. This process will feel similar to a service pack upgrade. Main reasons Lets start …

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