Azure AD

Hybrid Azure AD join with Windows Autopilot

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This week is all about a very often requested feature, which is the ability to hybrid Azure AD join a device when using Windows Autopilot. The combination of the latest updates to Microsoft Intune with Windows 10, version 1809, provides just that! The ability to hybrid Azure AD join a device when using Windows Autopilot! In other words, the device will join the on-premises Active Directory and register in Azure Active Directory. In this blog post I’ll start with a short introduction about the hybrid Azure AD join with Windows Autopilot, followed by the most important configurations. I’ll end this post by looking at the experience. Introduction Let’s start with a little introduction about the hybrid Azure AD join through Windows Autopilot. A short summary …

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Require an Internet connection during device setup

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This week I’m going to look at a well hidden configuration option that is recently introduced and can be really useful in specific scenarios. That configuration option is to require an Internet connection during the device setup. Requiring an Internet connection during device setup can be useful when trying to prevent users from resetting the device (either accidently or on purpose) and configuring it without an Internet connection, as configuring a device without Internet connectivity would enable a user to configure the device with a local user and without enrollment. In this blog post, I’ll start with a short introduction about why this configuration option would be useful and what the options are with this configuration option. Followed by the configuration steps and the end-user …

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Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode

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This week a new blog post about Windows Autopilot. More specifically, Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode. Autopilot self-deploying mode is really useful for devices that are function specific, like for example kiosk devices. The biggest benefit is that a device with a wired network connection (with Internet) can be completely configured without any user interaction. Simply connect the device to the wired network and power it on! Real zero touch provisioning! In this post I’ll provide the configuration steps to create that experience, followed by some known errors and the end-user experience. Configuration Let’s start with a few important requirements and limitations: The device must run Windows 10, version 1809 or later; The device can only be Azure AD joined (Active Directory join is not supported); …

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Join us at Experts Live Europe in Prague

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A bit less than two weeks from now, October 25-26, Experts Live Europe will be in Prague. Together with my finest colleague, Arjan Vroege, I will deliver two sessions! And we hope to see you there! Experts Live Europe is a Microsoft community conference with a focus on Microsoft cloud, datacenter and workplace management. During this conference, top experts from around the world present discussion panels, ask-the-experts sessions and breakout sessions and cover the latest products, technologies and solutions. About our sessions The maybe-not-that-sexy version of modern management – A true story – In this session, we will take you into the real world of modern management. Modern management is a great buzzword and by now we all know the lovely story of modern management. …

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Assign a user to a Windows AutoPilot device

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This blog post uses capabilities that are added in Windows 10, version 1809, which is currently still in preview. This week a short blog about another relatively new Windows AutoPilot feature. This week is all about assigning a specific user to a specific Windows AutoPilot device. That enables an administrator to directly assign a user to a Windows AutoPilot device. Assigning a user to a Windows AutoPilot device will make sure that the username will be pre-filled during Windows setup. It also lets the administrator set a custom greeting name, which will also be added during the Windows setup. In this post I’ll show the actual configuration steps, followed by the end-user experience. Configuration Before starting with the actual configuration steps, it’s important to name …

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Block access to company resources if certain apps are installed

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This week is all about device compliance. More specifically, this week is all about the just introduced capability to block access to company resources if certain apps are installed. This enables organizations to truly blacklist specific apps that are not allowed when using devices to access company resources. In this case it’s not about the apps used for accessing the company resources, but it’s really about the apps installed on the device. In this post I’ll provide the configuration steps, by using OWA for iPad as an example, followed by the end-user experience. Configuration Before starting with the actual configuration, it’s important to get the bundle ID of the iOS app that cannot be installed. These steps are very clearly documented here. I will use …

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Remote Windows AutoPilot Reset

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This blog post uses remote Windows AutoPilot Reset, to remotely trigger a device reset on Windows 10 devices. This capability is added in Windows 10, Insider Preview Build 17672 and later. This week it’s all about (remote) Windows AutoPilot Reset. That might sounds like something really cool and really new, but it’s actually not that new. Remember my post about Windows Automatic Redeployment? Well, that functionality still exists, but with the addition to trigger the redeployment (read: reset) remotely via Microsoft Intune, this feature is rebranded to (remote) Windows AutoPilot Reset. That means that Windows Autopilot Reset removes personal files, apps, and settings, by resetting Windows 10 while still maintaining the Azure AD Join and the Microsoft Intune enrollment. In this post I’ll show the …

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Automatically assign Windows AutoPilot deployment profile to Windows AutoPilot devices

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This week another (short) blog post about Windows AutoPilot. More specifically, about automatically assigning a Windows AutoPilot deployment profile to Windows AutoPilot devices. That makes it a lot easier for administrators, as this prevents the administrators from potentially forgetting to assign the deployment profile to newly imported devices. Great improvement. Also, I have to say that this subject is documented pretty good, but it could be easier to find. This post is mainly for creating awareness regarding this subject. I’ll provide the options regarding to grouping Windows AutoPilot devices and I’ll show how those options can be used to create a dynamic group. Options Let’s start by having a look at the configuration options regarding the grouping of Windows AutoPilot devices. The imported Windows AutoPilot …

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Conditional access and legacy authentication

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This week is still all about conditional access. More specifically, the recently introduced feature to create conditions based on the use of legacy authentication (including older Office versions), which is currently still in preview. By now, I’ve done my fair share of posts regarding blocking legacy authentication (see for example here and here), but now it’s literally getting super easy. And no need for AD FS anymore. This helps with easily closing another backdoor, as previously legacy authentication simply bypassed any conditional access policy. In this post I’ll walk through the required configurations followed by the end-user experience. Configuration Before going through the configuration let’s start with a quick reminder about legacy authentication. Very simplistically said, legacy authentication is basic authentication that uses a single …

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Join us at Experts Live Netherlands in Ede

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A bit more than a week from now, June 19, Experts Live Netherlands will be in Ede. Experts Live Netherlands is the biggest Microsoft community event of the BeNeLux, with over a 1000 visitors. Together with my finest colleague, Arjan Vroege, I will deliver a session about your ultimate hybrid workplace. And we hope to see you there! About our session During this session we will take you into the world of the hybrid workplace. The modern workplace is a great story, for cloud only organizations, but the reality is often that there are a lot of components still on-premises. During this session we will touch the different delegate subjects from identity until apps and from management until connectivity. That means, a lot of ground …

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