Microsoft Intune

Windows 10 enrollment methods

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This week is all about Windows 10 enrollment methods. The different methods to enroll Windows 10 devices into Microsoft Intune. There are many different methods to enroll Windows 10 devices, which makes it easy to get lost. In this post I’ll provide an overview of these different enrollment methods, including the use case of the enrollment method and how to perform the enrollment. This post is definitely not a complete guide through the different enrollment methods. Its main purpose is to create awareness for the different enrollment methods and to describe the main characteristics of the enrollment methods. The different enrollment methods Now let’s discuss the different enrollment methods and their use cases. Before starting, it’s good to mention that I’m aware of the existence …

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Controlling Windows 10 feature updates

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This week is all about controlling Windows 10 feature updates. A couple of months ago a new policy type was introduced to control Windows 10 feature updates. And even more recent, support for Windows Autopilot devices was added to that policy type. That latest addition was the trigger for this blog post. In this post I’ll start with a short introduction about the different options for controlling Windows 10 feature updates, followed by more details about the Windows 10 feature updates policy. I’ll end this post by looking at the configuration options. Introducing the control options for Windows 10 feature updates Now let’s with an introduction about the options to control Windows 10 feature updates by using Microsoft Intune. I’m deliberately naming it controlling – …

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Block Android device enrollment for specific device manufacturer

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This week is all about restricting the enrollment of Android devices. More specifically, about a very recently introduced feature which is the ability to block Android device enrollment based on the manufacturer of the device. That enables the organization to prevent Android devices of specific manufacturers from enrolling in Microsoft Intune. That can be useful when the organization has a specific policy for allowed device manufacturers. In this post I’ll walk through the configuration steps, followed with the end-user experience. Starting with this post, I’ll provide both the configuration steps via the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center portal and the configuration location in the Graph API (including the related JSON-snippet) as part of the configuration steps. Configuration steps Now let’s start by having a look at the …

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Exclude specific groups of users or devices from an app assignment

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This week another post about apps. This week it’s all about the ability to exclude a specific group of users or devices from an app assignment. That ability is not completely new, but it’s new enough to be still a little bit unfamiliar for many. It can be useful for assigning an app to a big group and still being able to exclude a small group. That can be users that should be treated a little different than the standard, like for example a test group, a demo group, or an executive group. In this post I want to have a look at those configuration options. Often I’ll also have a look at the end-user or administrative experience, but in this case there is nothing …

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Working with (custom) detection rules for Win32 apps

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After my post of last week about Working with (custom) requirements for Win32 apps only one configuration subject of Win32 apps is left that I’ve discussed in detail, the detection rules for Win32. The format of this week is similar to that post and to previous posts about the different configuration subjects of Win32 apps. Detection rules must be used to determine the presence of a Win32 app. A Win32 app can have multiple detection rules. In that case every detection rule must be met to detect the app. That will help with making sure that the app installation will only be started when the app is not yet installed. In this post I’ll start with going through the different detection rule formats and I’ll …

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Working with (custom) requirements for Win32 apps

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A few months ago I did a post about Working with the restart behavior of Win32 apps and a few months before that I did a post about Working with Win32 app dependencies. This week is similar to those post. This week is also about Win32 apps, but this week it’s about working with requirements for Win32 apps. Requirements can be used to make sure that the Win32 app will only install on a device that meets specific requirements. That means that requirements for Win32 apps, bring a lot of options and capabilities, which enable a lot of scenarios. Think about deploying a Win32 app to a user group and only installing on a specific device brand, type, or model. That can be achieved by …

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Device compliance based on custom configuration baselines

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This week is all about the new feature to include a custom configuration baselines as part of a compliance policy assessment. That’s a new feature that is introduced in Configuration Manager, version 1910. That will also make this a followup on the post I did earlier this year about using the power of ConfigMgr together with Microsoft Intune to determine device compliance. This will be added functionality, as it’s now possible to make custom configuration baselines part of the device compliancy check. For both, Configuration Manager managed devices and co-managed devices. Even when the workload is switched to Microsoft Intune. Introduction This option that makes it possible to use a custom device configuration baseline part of a compliancy policy, opens up a whole new world …

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The different ways of (re)naming Windows 10 devices

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This week is all about Windows 10 devices. More specifically about (re)naming Windows 10 devices. And all that by using standard available functionality without custom scripting. This post will bring different posts together that I did over the last couple of years and will introduce one new configuration option that was recently introduced within Windows Autopilot. In this post I’ll go through the different (configuration) options for (re)naming Windows 10 devices. Configuration options Now let’s dive into the different configuration options. All of these configuration options are from a MDM-Intune-Autopilot perspective. Scripting a device rename action could also be scripted by using PowerShell, but for this post I want to rely on built-in functionality. Custom device configuration profile The first configuration option that I want …

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Report-only mode for conditional access

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This week is, like last week, about a awareness for new feature that is introduced with conditional access. Last week was all about the recently introduced Conditional Access Insights workbook. In that post I already mentioned the Report-only mode for conditional access policies. In this post I want to focus on that Report-only mode. Report-only mode is a new state of a conditional access policy state that allows IT administrators to evaluate the impact of conditional access policies before enabling them in their environment. That enables the IT administrators to anticipate on the number and names of users impacted by common deployment initiatives such as blocking legacy authentication, requiring multi-factor authentication, or implementing sign-in risk policies. A great step forward. In this post I’ll walk through …

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Conditional Access Insights

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This week is all about creating awareness for the Conditional Access Insights workbook. This workbook is currently still in preview and is using Azure Monitor workbook functionality. The Conditional Access Insights workbook contains sign-in log queries that can help IT administrators with getting insights on the impact of conditional access policies. That is useful for troubleshooting, for following trends and for testing the latest introduction to conditional access of Report-only policies. Especially the latest category can be easily verified by using the Conditional Access Insights workbook. In this post I’ll walk trough the steps of creating a Log Analytics workspace (to store Azure Monitor log data), followed by the steps to send Azure AD sign-in information to Azure Monitor logs.I’ll end this post by actually …

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