The goal of this blogpost is to explain more about what happens between the moment that a configurations setting in Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) are created or modified and applied from that point forward to the endpoint. I will cover the options available to validate and monitor if the settings make it to the endpoint,…
Category: Microsoft Endpoint Manager
A first look at filtering when assigning apps, compliance policies and configuration profiles in Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Microsoft is currently in the process of rolling out a preview of filtering for apps, policies and profiles in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. With this new functionality you will be able to define extra applicability conditions for Apps, compliance policies and configuration profiles. Not every workload is supported (yet) though, for example you cannot use the…
A first look at expediting Windows 10 Quality Updates when using Windows Update for Business and Microsoft Endpoint Manager
During Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced the option to bypass pre-configured Windows Update for Business policies to immediately deploy a security update across your organization when emergencies arise as part of their Windows Update for Business deployment service. Today, Microsoft has made available a preview of possibility to expedite the installation security patches as part of…
Customizing the Microsoft Endpoint Manager company portal and my experiences doing so.
The Microsoft Company Portal app is a cross platform app available in the app stores of Apple, Android and Microsoft. The app, depending on the installed platform provides several options depending on the scenario it’s used in. In my implementations of Windows 10 Modern Workplaces the Company Portal is one of the apps which always…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL “Live – Ask us Anything” #4, on Tuesday April 20 about Expediting Windows 10 Quality Updates
On Tuesday, April 20 we are proud to announce our fourth “Live – Ask us Anything” session, hosted by Ronny de Jong and Frans Oudendorp. The topic for this session will be about: Expediting Windows 10 Quality Updates During this session Ronny and Frans and special guest David Guyer from the Windows Servicing product team…
Using Conditional Access to provide more granularity when registering or joining devices
This month Microsoft released a new “User Action” for Conditional Access in public preview. The new user action called “Register or join devices” can now be used to provide more granularity related to joining or registering a device in Azure Active Directory. Up until now, there was a global setting which you could define related…
Designing and configuring compliance policies for your Windows Modern Workplace using Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Measuring your managed systems against a baseline has been around for a while, in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager(MECM)/ConfigMgr we can already use one or more Configuration Items combined in a Configuration Baseline to measure and remediate clients against an imported or self created baseline. You can measure for example if the Windows Firewall is enabled…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #23, Tuesday April 13, featuring Greg Ramsey
For next week, Tuesday, April 13 we are proud to announce that Greg Ramsey, Enterprise Mobility MVP and Enterprise Tools Strategist at Dell, Inc. will be hosting a session about: Intune + ServiceNow = A Happy Admin. Session abstract: What can make an admin happier than automation?!?! Join Greg as he explores integration points between…
Configuring Windows Update for Business settings for your Microsoft Endpoint Manager managed Modern Workplace
Keeping Microsoft windows devices up-to-date has been a challenge I have been dealing with for a long time now. Within Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager/ConfigMgr getting grips on your updates was and is not an easy experience which you configure once and never have to touch again. If you in todays world are using Microsoft Endpoint…
My presentations at the Workplace Ninja User Group Switzerland 2103 virtual meetup
On Friday, the 19th of March, I spoke at the 2103 virtual meetup of the Workplace Ninja User Group Switzerland. During this event which lasts a whole day I presented two sessions. One, together with Erik Loef was about: “What is this Modern Authentication everyone is talking about?” and the other one was about: “Designing…
Create Powershell Session is failed using OAuth when using the Exchange Online V2 PowerShell module
Update: Since September 2022, the v3.0 PowerShell module of Exchange Online is available, which when used solves this issue as well. You can update your existing PowerShell module by running the following command. Update-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement Today, while wanting to check some settings in our Exchange Online environment, I ran into an issue where the…
Speaking at the Workplace Ninja User Group Switzerland 2103 virtual meetup on March 19, about Modern Authentication and Designing & Building MEM for Operations
On Friday, the 19th of March, I will speak at the 2103 virtual meetup of the Workplace Ninja User Group Switzerland. During this event which lasts a whole day I’m going to present two sessions. One, together with Erik Loef will be about: “What is this Modern Authentication everyone is talking about?” and the other…
A first look at the settings catalog in Microsoft Endpoint Manager
With the 2101 Service Release of Microsoft Intune, released this week (February 1, 2021) Microsoft released a lot of new features. One of those features is the introduction of the settings catalog, which is now in preview. Microsoft describes the settings catalog as: “Settings catalog lists the settings you can configure, and all in one…
Demystifying Windows 10 in cloud configuration
On February 2, 2021 Microsoft announced “Windows 10 in cloud configuration”, when reading the title I was immediately interested to find out what that meant. Hence, even Mary Jo Foley wrote an article on the subject: Microsoft makes available Windows 10 ‘in cloud’ configuration settings for IT admins Let’s dive in deeper and see. Microsoft…
Updating your Security baselines in Microsoft Endpoint Manager to a newer version
With the 2101 Service Release of Microsoft Intune, released this week (February 1, 2021) Microsoft released a lot of new features (more on that in other blogposts). One of the important changes in this service release is the fact that the security baselines for Windows 10 and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP)…