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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Delivery Optimization with Intune and Microsoft Connected Cache (MCC)

Intune managed devices must be configured to leverage Delivery Optimization (DO) to reduce the overall internet bandwidth usage. It is a distributed cache solution using peer to peer transfers for content downloads. It is a very well designed solution especially for the cloud era. The latest addition to that concept is the so called Microsoft…

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How to disable SMBv1 with Intune [deep dive analysis]

I recently got motivated to research a bit about new MDM settings available in the latest Windows 10 Insider Build (17074) and how to configure them. Settings available in preview Windows 10 versions normally do not have a lot of technical documentation for it or there is even no documentation for a particular feature and…

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Deep dive ADMX ingestion to configure SilentAccountConfig with OneDrive

Since Windows 10 1703 you can use a feature called ADMX ingestion to extend policy settings in Intune. What it basically does is to parse an ADMX file and build a MDM policy of it. In the end you can configure the ADMX settings via OMA-URIs in Intune. More details about ADMX ingestion can be…

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