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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MDM Local Management using SyncML Viewer

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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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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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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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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