SyncML Viewer Update with Autopilot hash decoding

I spent some time to further enhance the SyncML Viewer utility (see here to learn more about the tool). This release (Version 1.4.0) fixes some minor bugs, and added some new features. Three of them are worth mentioning here. So, I’m showing them quickly in this update post. First of all, I have to thank…

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SyncML Viewer via Winget

To make your life easier, I’ve submitted SyncML Viewer to the official Windows Package Manager Community Repository (winget). From now on you can get it by a simple command: winget install SyncMLViewer After a quick install you can use it: You have to open a new shell as the path variable is updated, then type…

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Enhancing usability of SyncML Viewer

As promised in my last post about WiFi and certificate-based authentication, I spent some time creating a new SyncML Viewer version v1.3.0. This time I would say I focused on the usability of the tool. I added a lot of features since version 1.2.0. I’m going to demonstrate a few of them and release the…

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New SyncML Viewer version

Quite some time ago now, I published the SyncML Viewer to monitor the MDM protocol between a Windows client device and the Microsoft MDM backend (Intune). In the meantime, Microsoft brought to life the Microsoft Managed Platform Cloud (MMP-C) and uses the so-called Declared Configuration protocol which is still using the underlying OMA-DM SyncML protocol.…

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Deep dive of SCEP certificate request/renewal on Intune-managed Windows clients

Today we are going to look under the hood of certificate requests or renewals on an MDM (Intune) managed Windows client. The environment is simple and uses a Windows client and SCEPman as the Cloud CA, which is easily set up and nothing more than an Azure App Service. It is especially interesting, as this…

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IME debugging and Intune Win32 App decoding – Part 2

Three years ago, I coded a small utility to decode Intune Win32 Apps and wrote a blog post about it – How to decode Intune Win32 App Packages. In addition to the small Decoder utility, I wrote a short PowerShell script to parse the Intune Management Extension (IME) log file to extract the necessary decryption…

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Ignite 2021 – Modern Management recap

Ignite 2021 is almost over and most of the content I was hunting after is also available as on-demand sessions. So, a good time to start a blog about my impressions. In this post I will go over my highlights I captured for the Windows and Modern Management with Microsoft Endpoint Manager area. As I…

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Enhance Intune Management Extension (IME) Logging

Everyone working with Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) and using the Intune Management Extension (IME) has seen these log files: Here we find all relevant information about the processing of the Intune Windows Agent. We get deeper understanding what the agent is actually doing and it is the location to start troubleshooting Intune related error regarding…

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Changed Intune Policy Processing Behavior on Windows 10

A year ago I explained the policy processing in Windows 10 with Intune with the following article: Intune Policy Processing on Windows 10 explained At the time of writing the behavior of most Configuration Service Providers (CSPs) followed a tattooing model. Meaning once a setting got applied it wouldn’t change until you explicitly set a new…

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Windows 10 MDM client activity monitoring with SyncML Viewer

Do you ever wanted to know what is going on behind the curtain when clicking MDM Sync on Windows 10? Gaining insights into how the SyncML representation protocol is used during device management of Windows 10 clients? With SyncML Viewer you have the chance to easily get deep insights now. I’ve written a small tool…

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On-demand Windows Diagnostic Logs via Intune

How-to gather on-demand diagnostic data from Windows 10 1903+ by utilizing the DiagnosticLog CSP via a MDM service like Intune.

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