Customizing the default app associations on Windows 11 devices

This week is another follow-up on the posts of the last weeks about customizing Windows 11 devices. This week, however, is focused on customizing the default app accosiations on Windows 11 devices. Customizing the default app associations enables organizations to associate specific apps with file and link types, for their users. Besides that, this post is also an updated version of this post of over four years ago. Even though not a lot has changed, the configuration did become easier. This post goes through the creation of the required app assocations file, folowed with applying that file on Windows 11 devices. This post ends with showing the user experience with the customized app assoications. Important: My personal opinion is that – as with every other …

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Getting started with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Android

Microsoft recently declared Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) for Android – previously known as Microsoft Defender ATP for Android – general available. That’s really good news and also a really good trigger for a new blog post. MDE for Android provides protection against phishing, unsafe network connections, and malicious apps. All events and alerts around those subjects will be available in the Microsoft Defender Security Center and will be used to determine the risk level of the device. To add-on to that, through the connection with Microsoft Intune that risk information can be used to determine the compliance of the device with the company policies and to determine the eventual access of the device to company data. In this post I want to start with …

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