Microsoft Intune

Using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in app protection policies for Android and iOS

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This week is all about some new and exiting functionality related to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) that was announced around Microsoft Ignite. That new and exiting functionality is that MDE risk signals can now be used in app protection policies for Android and iOS. Those signals are based on the protection against phishing, unsafe network connections (on Android and iOS), and malicious apps (on Android only). That enables the usage of MDE on unmanaged devices for even better protection of work data. This behavior can be achieved by configuring an integration between MDE and Microsoft Intune, to send the required signals to Microsoft Intune, and by configuring an app protection policy, to create a conditional launch for the app, based on the signals provided …

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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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Integrating Samsung Knox E-FOTA One with Microsoft Intune

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This week is all about Samsung Knox Enterprise Firmware-Over-The-Air (E-FOTA). Samsung Knox E-FOTA is available in three editions, of which Samsung Knox E-FOTA One is the most advanced edition. That edition is also the subject of this post. Knox E-FOTA enables organizations to manage OS versions and security updates on corporate Samsung Knox devices. That enables organizations to extensively test updates on their devices in combination with their apps to make sure that new OS versions and security updates won’t cause any issues. Together with Microsoft Intune that experience can be even better. Microsoft Intune can be used to configure already managed Samsung Knox devices to use Knox E-FOTA and Microsoft Intune can also be used to synchronize groups with Samsung Knox devices to Knox …

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Using Samsung Knox Mobile Enrollment with Microsoft Intune

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This week is all about using Samsung Knox Mobile Enrollment (KME) for automatically enrolling Samsung Knox devices into Microsoft Intune. The idea of Samsung KME is similar to Windows Autopilot and Apple ADE. It’s all about streamlining the enrollment experience for corporate-owned devices. By using Samsung KME in combination with Microsoft Intune, a smooth out-of-the-box experience enables users to be up-and-running in no time. That can be achieved by uploading Samsung Knox devices in Samsung KME and assigning MDM profiles to those devices. This post will start with the important prerequisites, followed with the steps for creating a MDM profile in Samsung KME. This post ends with assigning the MDM profile to devices in Samsung KME and a quick look at the user experience. Note: …

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Further integrating Apple Business Manager with Microsoft Intune

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A few weeks ago I’ve discussed the integration of Apple Business Manager (ABM) with Azure AD, to provision the Managed Apple IDs and to provide a federation. That provides a very nice user experience, when used in combination with Microsoft Intune. This week I want to extend on ABM by further integrating it with Microsoft Intune. As a bare minimum for managing Apple devices it’s always required to use the Apple MDM Push certificate. I hope that every IT administrator can dream the required steps for such a certificate by now. On top of that, ABM can be used to facilitate company-owned devices and to facilitate volume purchased apps. That provides an even better experience on company-owned Apple devices. A great out-of-the-box experience together with …

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Getting started with User Enrollment for iOS/iPadOS devices

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This week is all around the User Enrollment option that was introduced with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13.1 and that is currently available as preview functionality in Microsoft Intune. User Enrollment feels similar to what already can be achieved on Android devices with Work Profiles. A separation between personal data and company data. In this post I’ll start with a short introduction about User Enrollment, followed with the steps to created an enrollment profile that will facilitate the User Enrollment. I’ll end this post by show the end-user experience during the enrollment and after the enrollment. Introduction to User Enrollment User Enrollment is created and designed by Apple to facilitate an enrollment and management scenario for Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD). That enrollment and management …

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Quick tip: Manually adding devices to Apple Business Manager

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This week a quick extra post. I noticed that there was not a lot of information available regarding manually adding devices to Apple Business Manager (ABM) for usage with Automated Device Enrollment (ADE). That makes sense, because the idea is that devices are automatically added to ABM after purchase. However, sometimes it’s useful to be able to manually add devices. Manually adding devices, can be achieved the easiest by following the two steps described below. Before starting with those steps make sure that: an enrollment program token is available and that the synchronization between ABM and Microsoft Intune is active, Find My {AppleDevice} is disabled, and that a mobile configuration is available that contains the WiFi configuration to simplify the enrollment Step 1: Create an …

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Federated authentication for Managed Apple IDs

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This week is all about federated authentication for Managed Apple IDs. When using Microsoft Intune for managing Apple devices, the use of Managed Apple IDs is adding more and more value to the solution. That value gets even more when those Managed Apple IDs are federated with Azure AD. That would provide the user with a single account to remember and to use. Together that brings a very nice experience to Apple devices that are using federated Managed Apple IDs and are managed with Microsoft Intune. In this post I’ll discuss and describe the following information regarding Managed Apple IDs: What are Managed Apple IDs and why using them? Federated authentication for Managed Apple IDs Automatically provisioned users from Azure AD Provisioned user with federated …

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Easily enforcing specific Windows Sandbox configurations

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This week is all about Windows Sandbox. About two years ago I wrote a post about simply enabling Windows Sandbox, by using a simple PowerShell script and distributing that script by using Microsoft Intune. Windows Sandbox is a really nice feature for running applications in an isolated environment. That isolated environment supports simple configuration files, which provide a minimal set of customization parameters. With the latest version of Windows 10, the administrator receives some controls for enforcing specific customization parameters. That won’t prevent the user from creating a configuration file, but that does prevent specific customization parameters from applying to the Windows Sandbox. In this post I’ll briefly go through the currently available policies, followed with the steps of configuring those policies. I’ll end this …

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Quick tip: Enable browser access on Android Enterprise corporate-owned devices

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This week a quick tip about enabling browser access on Android Enterprise Corporate-Owned Fully Managed devices and Android Enterprise Corporate-Owned devices with Work Profile, to work with device-based Conditional Access. That will enable the user to eventually use different apps for accessing company data. That includes for example using the Chrome browser app for accessing SharePoint Online or Exchange Online. On the Android Enterprise devices, this requires a configuration in the Microsoft Authenticator app. In this post I’ll simply provide the steps that are required within the Microsoft Authenticator app. Note: Before providing the mentioned steps, a big thank you to Pat Freeman for pointing me in the right direction. Enable browser access in the Microsoft Authenticator app When knowing the availability of the setting, …

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