Microsoft Edge

Adding company branding to Microsoft Edge for Business

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This week is all about Microsoft Edge for Business and the new ability to add company branding. Microsoft Edge for Business is the new dedicated Microsoft Edge experience that is created for work accounts. It provides IT administrators with the capabilities to provide users with a productive and secure browsing experience across managed and unmanaged devices. That includes the ability to add company branding to the work account in Microsoft Edge for Business. Adding company branding can be especially useful for differentiating between multiple profiles in the browser. The company branding includes organization details like the company name in the profile pill, and the company color and logo in the profile flyout. Besides that, it’s even possible to add a logo to overlay the Microsoft …

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Getting started with Mobile Application Management for Windows

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This week is all about Mobile Application Management (MAM) for Windows. A long awaited feature that will be a big help with addressing unmanaged Windows devices. MAM for Windows enables organizations to manage the app in a similar way as already possible on mobile platforms. So, making sure that there is a separation between personal and work data, and making sure that the chances of accidental data leakages getting slimmer. In some areas, especially when looking at browser access, it might feel similar to what could already be achieved by using app enforced restrictions in Conditional Access, or by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in combination with Conditional Access. Big difference, however, is that MAM for Windows also includes the ability to use app …

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Getting started with Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile Application Management for iOS/iPadOS

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This week is all about one of the new Intune Suite add-on capabilities. The capability of focus is Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile Application Management (Tunnel for MAM) for iOS/iPadOS devices. The Intune Suite add-ons were released at the beginning of March, including a new licensing model, and including Tunnel for MAM. That capability on itself, is available as part of the new Microsoft Intune Plan 2 license. Tunnel for MAM makes it possible to provide access to on-premises resources, on unmanaged devices. Often unmanaged devices are equal to personal-owned devices. So, that provides IT with the flexibility to make that app, with on-premises interaction, available on personal-owned devices. Without requiring the user to enroll that specific device, but still enforcing secure access and guaranteeing full …

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Getting started with compliance for Linux devices

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This week is about a totally different platform as the last few months. This week is all about Linux devices. A few years ago, I wrote this post about supporting the unsupported platforms. This post will describe a solution that will address the biggest part of that challenge, as it will enable the compliance of Linux devices. All powered by the enrollment in Microsoft Intune. That enables organizations to require Linux devices to be compliant and enable users to be productive. Even on Linux devices. Besides that, it’s good to keep in mind that, at this point in time, it’s really only about device compliance. Configuring Linux devices is not part of the currently available functionalities. This post will describe the minor details about the …

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Easily installing Progressive Web Apps

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This week is not something completely new, but more something nice to be aware of. This week is all around Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and easily and automatically installing them on Windows devices. The great thing about a PWAs is that they’re basically websites that are enhanced to function like installed, native apps on supporting platforms, while functioning like regular websites on other browsers. That provides a great cross-platform experience. On Windows devices, PWAs can actually be installed like a native app and in some ways even behave like native apps. That provides a really powerful experience. With Microsoft Edge basically any website can be installed as an app. The behavior depends on the capabilities of the website. A nice add-on to that is that the …

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Getting started with Microsoft Defender Application Guard

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This week is back to Windows. This week is all about Microsoft Defender Application Guard (Application Guard). Recently Application Guard functionality was added to Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise and those configuration options recently became available in Microsoft Intune. A good trigger for a new post. Application Guard uses hardware isolation to isolate untrusted sites and untrusted Office files, by running the application in an isolated Hyper-V container. That isolation makes sure that anything that happens within the isolated Hyper-V container is isolated from the host operating system. That provides an additional security layer. This post will start with a quick introduction about Application Guard, followed with the steps to configure Application Guard by using Microsoft Intune. Introduction to Microsoft Defender Application Guard Application Guard …

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