Enterprise Mobility and the Microsoft Cloud
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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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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Maybe you have read the previous article How to configure certificate-based WiFi with Intune already and asked how to do the same with the freshly released Microsoft Cloud PKI. Then you don’t have to wait any longer, I promised to write about it and here is the setup with Microsoft Cloud PKI. I’ll dive into…
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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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I think everyone agrees about the fact that most users are working with a laptop nowadays. This means a majority of their time they are using WiFi connections to do their work. So, in a cloud era where we don’t have many on-premises services anymore, the connectivity to get internet access is absolutely crucial. This…
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A month ago, I published a new version of the SyncML Viewer to support MMP-C. With this release I came to the idea of integrating some SyncML requests functionality. Sending local SyncML requests to the Windows OS and letting it process the OMA DM commands and get results back. After quite some research how to…
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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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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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Microsoft Intune is great when it comes to managing Windows devices and for sure it doesn’t need to hide when it comes to mobile phones like Android phones or Apple phones. Most companies I engage with do have the majority of devices running Windows, but there is always a certain amount of percentage running macOS.…
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A lot of people waited for this enhancement a long time, it is a rather small enhancement, but with a fairly big impact in user experience. So, I thought that it is worth a small blog post :-). In the past if you installed the new Edge on Chromium basis and started it for the…
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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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In this article we dive into a way to completely switch the language of Windows 10 in a scripted way with the help of Intune and without the need for explicit language cab files. The new language setting will include the Welcome screen and New user defaults as well. This approach is beneficial for further…
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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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In this post I will dive into the Intune policy processing on a MDM managed Windows 10 client. Intune is an MDM system and has the ability to deploy so called device configuration profiles to managed Windows 10 endpoints. We will have a look at the architecture, the settings, and the actual processing including the…
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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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