Backup and restore Android Enterprise fully managed devices

This week is something completely different compared to the last couple of weeks. This week is back to the Android platform. More specifically, backing up and restoring data on Android Enterprise fully managed devices. An often heard challenge with Android Enterprise managed devices, is the lack of available functionalities for restoring data from an old device to a new device. So, the ability to backup the data on the old device and to restore the data on the new device. That’s challenging as there is simply a lack of available backup functionality when relying on Android Enterprise. The Samsung Smart Switch app could be a solution for that challenge. It enables users to seamlessly transfers contacts, photos, music, videos, messages, notes, calendars and more to …

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App protection policies and managed iOS devices

This week is all about app protection policies for managed iOS devices. More specifically, about some default behavior that might be a little bit confusing when not known. When creating app protection policies, those policies can be configured for managed devices or managed apps. That sounds simple. By default, however, when creating and assigning separate policies for managed devices and managed apps, every iOS device will apply app protection policies that are assigned to managed apps. That behavior is caused by the fact that the device will only be identified as a managed device when a specific configuration is in place. That configuration is the user UPN setting. Even better, the user UPN setting opens even more use cases for managed devices. This post will …

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Create a custom multi-app kiosk mode

This week is all about creating a custom multi-app kiosk mode for Android Enterprise dedicated devices. The Android Enterprise dedicated device settings also contains multi-app kiosk settings, but in some scenarios those settings can still be a little bit limiting. To create a multi-app kiosk mode, Microsoft Intune relies on the Managed Home Screen app. The fun part is that the Managed Home Screen app already contains a few more settings that are currently only available via app configuration policies. In this post I’ll start with a quick overview of the app configuration options that exist nowadays, followed by showing an app configuration example for the Managed Home Screen app to add a non-Managed Google Play Store app. Technically speaking I’ll add a single app, …

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Configure email profile for the Outlook app

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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Combining MAM-WE and app configuration

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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Quick tip: Available token types for app configuration policies

This is a quick and short blog post to create awareness about the existence of token types. Token types are basically just variables that can be used within a property list of an app configuration policy in Microsoft Intune hybrid and Microsoft Intune standalone. This blog post will provide a quick overview about the available token types with example values. Overview The following table contains the currently available token types for Microsoft Intune hybrid and Microsoft Intune standalone. Before going through this table, it’s good to know that the {{ and }} characters are used by token types only and should not be used for other purposes. Token type Example value {{userprincipalname}} pvanderwoude@petervanderwoude.nl {{mail}} pvanderwoude@petervanderwoude.nl {{partialupn}} pvanderwoude {{accountid}} fcc00012-123e-f479-aabe-abe2a1123b45 {{deviceid}} c7d01dd3-136f-40c5-b843-711e958c4eef {{userid}} 2dda638e-28b7-4bdc-a4fd-70faaa811010 {{username}} Peter …

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Microsoft Intune and the AppConfig Community

This week I would like to write about Microsoft Intune and the AppConfig Community. I want to create some awareness about what the AppConfig Community is and I want to show how even Microsoft Intune can, and will, benefit of that great alliance. What is the AppConfig Community? Let’s start with what the AppConfig Community actually is. I could do that by providing my own explanation about the AppConfig Community, but to prevent any possible misinterpretation from my side, I will provide the good and clear explanation as provided on the AppConfig Community website. The AppConfig Community is a collection of industry leading Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution providers and app developers that have come together to make it easier for developers and customers to …

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App Configuration Policies for iOS apps

This week another blog post that is triggered by a feature that is introduced in ConfigMgr 1602. And again, it’s about a feature that already did exist in Microsoft Intune standalone. This post will be about the App Configuration Policies for iOS apps. These policies can make the life of an end-user a lot easier and are a very welcome addition to Microsoft Intune standalone and Microsoft Intune hybrid. For now the biggest challenge might be finding the apps that support App Configuration Policies and, maybe even more important, apps that have the settings documented. During the deployment of an app via ConfigMgr, or Microsoft Intune, it’s already visible if  an app could support App Configuration Policies. However, a lot of apps have the potential, …

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