Endpoint Analytics

Looking closer at enabling Endpoint analytics

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This week is all about Endpoint analytics and indirectly Advanced Analytics. More specifically, about enabling Endpoint Analytics and what happens after enabling Endpoint analytics. The process of enabling Endpoint analytics is not that special and can only be performed once per tenant. It is, however, good to be familiar with what happens after enabling Endpoint analytics. To understand the settings that become available and the impact of adjusting those settings. Especially the impact for the Windows devices within the environment. Besides that, it’s also important to be familiar with configurations that are not directly part of Endpoint analytics, but that do influence the results provided by Endpoint analytics. This post will focus on exactly those subjects! This post will provide an overview of what enabling …

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Remediating local administrators with proactive remediations

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Like last week, this week is all about proactive remediations, a feature of Endpoint Analytics. As mentioned last week, proactive remediations are script packages that can detect common issues and remediate those issues if needed. All of that before the user even realizes that there is an issue. Those remediations can help with reducing support calls. The strength is that the remediations can be anything to address potential issues, as long as it can be addressed by using PowerShell. Each script package contains a detection script and a remediation script and that script package is deployed through Microsoft Intune. For deploying script packages, Microsoft Intune relies on the Intune Management Extension (IME). To show the real power of proactive remediations, I’ll further develop the local …

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Detecting local administrators with proactive remediations

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This week is all about proactive remediations, which is a feature of Endpoint Analytics. Proactive remediations are script packages that can detect common issues and remediate those issues if needed. All of that before the user even realizes that there is an issue. Those remediations can help with reducing support calls. The strength is that the remediations can be anything to address potential issues, as long as it can be addressed by using PowerShell. Each script package contains a detection script and a remediation script and that script package is deployed through Microsoft Intune. For deploying script packages, Microsoft Intune relies on the Intune Management Extension (IME). To show the power of proactive remediations, I’ll use local administrators as an example. I’ve did something similar …

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