How to enable Pre-Boot BitLocker startup PIN on Windows with Intune

This guide will demonstrate how to enable the BitLocker startup PIN for pre-boot authentication on Windows 10 with Microsoft Intune. I will walk through how to accomplish this in a nearly fully automatic way. Let’s start with some facts around BitLocker to understand the technology more precisely. In fact, I think a pre-boot startup PIN…

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Enabling BitLocker on non-HSTI devices with Intune

This is a post about enabling BitLocker on non-HSTI devices with Windows 10 version 1809 and standard user permissions. First of all a little background on HSTI. HSTI is a Hardware Security Testability Interface. It is an interface to report the results of security-related self-tests. Its purpose is to provide high assurance validation of proper security configuration.…

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Part 2, Deep dive Microsoft Intune Management Extension – PowerShell Scripts

Because of the popularity of my first blog post Deep dive Microsoft Intune Management Extension – PowerShell Scripts, I’ve decided to write a second post regarding Intune Management Extension to further explain some architecture behind this feature and upcoming question from the community. A deeper understanding helps to successful troubleshoot the feature. Table of content for…

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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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Configuring Windows Defender Credential Guard with Intune

The Windows Defender Credential Guard is a feature to protect NTLM, Kerberos and Sign-on credentials. Windows 10 Enterprise provides the capability to isolate certain Operating System (OS) pieces via so called virtualization-based security (VBS). NTLM and Kerberos credentials are normally stored in the Local Security Authority (LSA). Once VBS is enabled the LSASS process will…

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