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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Comprehensive guide to managing macOS with Intune

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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New Edge sync policy in action

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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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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How to completely change Windows 10 language with Intune

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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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 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 to…

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Intune Policy Processing on Windows 10 explained

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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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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