Android

Android Enterprise fully managed devices and conditional access

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This week is all about Android Enterprise fully managed devices. More specifically, the recently introduced functionality to use Android Enterprise fully managed devices in combination with conditional access. To support this functionality Microsoft introduced a new app, named Microsoft Intune app, and a new profile type for device compliancy policies for the Android Enterprise platform. Together these 2 features enable Android Enterprise fully managed devices to be registered as compliant device and to successfully work with conditional access. In this post I’ll provide some information about the Microsoft Intune app and I’ll show how to configure that app, followed by some information about the compliance policy for device owner scenarios and how to configure that policy. I’ll end this post by showing the end-user experience. …

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Conditional access and requiring app protection policy

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This week is focused on conditional access and the recently introduced grant control of Require app protection policy (preview). I already tweeted about it a couple of weeks a go, but I thought that it would be good to also write a little bit about this grant control. The Require app protection policy (preview) grant control could be seen as the successor of the Require approved client app grant control. The main difference is that the new Require app protection policy (preview) grant control will be more flexible. In this post I’ll start with a short introduction about this new grant control, followed by a configuration example. That example will be about a scenario for accessing Exchange Online. I’ll end this post by showing the …

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The conditional access policy flow

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This week is still all about conditional access. However, this week it’s not about a specific configuration. This week it’s about the conditional access policy flow. The flow that will help with determining if a conditional access policy is applicable to the user’s attempt to access a cloud app and if access will be allowed or blocked. The idea is similar to the What if tool. The big difference is that the What if tool does a technical check to see which conditional access policy is applicable and this flow can help with determining why a conditional access policy is applicable, or not. Also, almost as important, this flow will clearly show how many options are available to exclude specific users and devices. This is …

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Conditional access and blocking downloads

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This week is all about using conditional access for blocking downloads. I already did something similar before by using app enforced restrictions for Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. This time I’m going to take it one step further by looking at recently adjusted functionality for Conditional Access App Control. Conditional Access App Control enables administrators to control user sessions by redirecting the user through a reverse proxy instead of directly to the app. From then on, user requests and responses go through Cloud App Security rather than directly to the app. This creates an additional layer that can be used to filter actions. In this blog post I’ll start with a short introduction about Conditional Access App Control, followed by the configuration steps and the …

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Easily managing Managed Google Play apps directly in Microsoft Intune

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This week is all about the simplified experience for managing Managed Google Play apps directly in Microsoft Intune. The Managed Google Play store is used to deploy apps to devices managed via Android Enterprise. Before it was required to separately navigate to the Manage Google Play store to approve apps and after approval it was required to synchronize the approved apps with Microsoft Intune. Now the approval (and deletion) of Managed Google Play apps can be achieved by using Microsoft Intune only. Besides the better user experience, the fact that Google announced the deprecation of the device admin management API, means that it’s really time to look at the Managed Google Play store and apps and Android Enterprise in general. In this post I will …

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Block access to all cloud apps for unsupported platforms

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This week something different compared to the last couple of weeks. This week is all about conditional access, but not about particular new functionality. This week I want to show a relatively simple method to make conditional access policies as secure and complete as possible. By using device platforms as an example, I want to show how to make sure that only device platforms supported by the IT organization can access company data. And really only those device platforms. In this post I’ll provide a short introduction of this method, followed by the related configurations. I’ll end this post by showing the end-user experience. Introduction Let’s start with a short introduction about this method to make sure that only specific device platforms, supported by the …

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Configure email profile for the Outlook app

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This week is all about configuring an email profile for the Outlook app. Actually preconfiguring an email profile for the users, making sure that the users only need to provide their password. Depending on the exact infrastructure, this can save a lot of (adaption) work in providing guidelines to the users. Some even want to look at this for preconfiguring an email profile for Exchange Online. I’m not that sure about that specific use case. Having said that, I do use that configuration as an example configuration. Simply because I’ve got that available in my lab. In this post I’ll show the available keys for configuring an email profile and I’ll show the configuration steps. I’ll end this post by showing the end-user experience, which …

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Block app access for unapproved device manufacturers or device models

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This week is all about app protection. More specifically, this week is all about the just introduced capability to block app access for Android devices with unapproved device manufactures , or for iOS devices with unapproved device models. That capability actually has two separate actions to choose from, 1) block app access and 2) selective wipe of corporate data within the app. This capability will help with preventing access from untrusted devices to corporate data. Really useful, as we all can think of some low-end devices (loaded with malware, almost for free) that should not be used for accessing corporate data. In this post I’ll show the available configuration options, followed by the end-user experience. Configuration Now let’s start by having a look at the …

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App protection policies and device management state

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This week is all about creating some additional awareness for the capability of assigning app protection policies and differentiating between the management state of the devices of the user. Since recently it’s possible to assign app protection policies to either Intune managed devices or unmanaged devices. This can help with differentiating between Intune managed devices and unmanaged (MAM only) devices. For example, have more strict data loss prevention configurations for MAM only devices compared to MDM managed devices. In this post I’ll show the available configuration followed by results from an administrator perspective. Configuration Let’s start by having a look at the available configuration options. I’ll do that by walking through the steps for creating and configuring an app protection policy. These steps are shown …

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Default device compliance status

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This week I’m going to look at the recent introduction of the feature to configure the default compliance state for devices when no compliance policies are targeted. This enables additional security for all devices, as it enables administrators to mark devices as non compliant when no compliance policies are targeted to the device. In this post I’ll start with a short introduction about this security feature, followed by a walk through the configuration. I’ll end this post by looking at the end-user experience. Introduction As should be known by now, compliance policies are basically rules, such as requiring a device PIN, or requiring encryption. These device compliance policies define rules and settings that a device must follow to be considered compliant. The recently introduced security …

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