Enterprise Mobility and the Microsoft Cloud
It’s been a while since I updated the Autopilot Manager solution but here we go with an update to support Windows Corporate Identifiers. Maybe a quick recap of what Autopilot Manger is. The idea is a more user friendly on-the-fly Autopilot hardware hash upload to the Intune tenant. Or with the new version publishing of…
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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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New enhancements to Autopilot Manager are here. This time I focused on further optional automations of the import process based on customer feedback. Another year is gone and Autopilot Manager once again gets new features. Ironically last time I introduced new features (Evolving Autopilot Manager) was also ~1 year after the initial release. So here…
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Ignite 2021 is almost over and most of the content I was hunting after is also available as on-demand sessions. So, a good time to start a blog about my impressions. In this post I will go over my highlights I captured for the Windows and Modern Management with Microsoft Endpoint Manager area. As I…
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As a lot of my blog readers probably know :-), I’m working a lot with Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Intune and testing a lot of things in the Modern Management approach with Windows 10. It is absolutely necessary to have a good lab setup to test all these new features in a save way. For…
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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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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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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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Successful onboarding without the pitfalls to miss devices and analytics data.
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