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Remote anything: Publish complex ‘full-path’ web applications with Azure AD Application Proxy
These days where households are rapidly turning into remote offices the need to make business applications available as if they were available from the office is on the rise. Azure AD Application Proxy lends perfectly to secure unlock on-premise web applications in an ease and safe manner. In this post I’ll explain how successfully publish on-premise SAP instance with a complex home page URL, which seem challenging at first sight.
Moving away from passwords with Windows 10, Windows Hello for Business & Microsoft Intune
In 2004, long before we went online massively concepts like phishing or ransomware were on the rise, Bill Gates, predicted at the RSA Conference that year the demise of passwords saying “they just don’t meet the challenge for anything you really want to secure.” For years, we’ve been discussing the vulnerabilities of passwords (80 percent of security breaches are down to stolen passwords & credentials) and the need to ditch them for more robust & secure solutions.
Windows Defender ATP: Onboarding your Windows 10 endpoints, do it the right way!
In the early days of onboarding Windows 10 endpoints to Windows Defender ATP you had to define a custom device configuration policy via Intune, in order to enable and register your Windows Defender ATP agents at scale. Later on the onboarding experience was improved by providing native Windows Defender ATP configuration policy via the Intune UI.
Unleash your Azure CSP subscription for Cloud Management Gateway deployments
The cloud management gateway (CMG) provides a simple way to manage Configuration Manager clients on the internet. By deploying the CMG as a cloud service in Microsoft Azure, you can manage traditional clients that roam on the internet ‘without’ additional (on-premise) infrastructure. However, there is a limitation when deploying CMG using Azure CSP subscription.
Troubleshooting Cloud Management Gateway: Quick & effectively /w CMG Connector Analyzer
In Configuration Manager Current Branch 1806, Microsoft introduced the Cloud Management Gateway Connector Analyzer. A highly valued feature which is a great starting point to troubleshoot your Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) in case you ran in to any issues.
Keep your Microsoft Intune tenant clean and tidy /w Azure Automation & Graph API
Nowadays Microsoft provides us a lot of flexibility to empower end-users to be productive as never before. Users are able to register their devices in order to access corporate resources anytime, anywhere on devices they love. Provisioning of Windows 10 devices to your enterprise has never been easier for end-users. They are even able to join their brand new devices to the corporate from home taking benefit of Windows Autopilot & Azure AD MDM auto-enrollment.
Microsoft Intune introduced High Available (HA) support for SCEP/PFX Connector
Since December 2017 Microsoft Intune introduced support for multiple active SCEP/PFX connectors per tenant in order to provide high availability for certificate handling. Initially the Microsoft Intune SCEP/PFX connector didn’t provide support for high availability. The SCEP/PFX connector could be installed as an single instance with no option for multiple active connectors.
Windows Defender ATP updates including BitLocker & Firewall security controls
Alongside the announcement of down-level support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, there is more exciting news in regards to Windows Defender ATP. Since today Windows Defender ATP Security Analytics is extended with two new security controls; BitLocker and Firewall. BitLocker & Firewall These security controls considered to be part of your default security baseline.
Part 2: Improve your endpoint security /w Windows Defender ATP & Microsoft Intune: Exploit Guard & SmartScreen
In my previous blog I highlighted the Security Analytics Dashboard of the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection and how to improve your organizations security excellence covering two improvement area’s: Windows Defender Antivirus and Windows Defender Application Guard.
Part 1: Improve your endpoint security /w Windows Defender ATP & Microsoft Intune: Windows Defender Antivirus & Application Guard
Remark: Some information relates to pre-released product (Windows 10 Insiders Preview build) which may be substantially modified before it’s commercially released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here. In my previous blog I highlighted some of the new (preview) features – Security Analytics Dashboard – of Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP).
Deploying Satya Nadella’s Guide “Hit Refresh” to the future /w Microsoft Intune eBooks
With the recent release of Satya Nadella’s – Microsoft CEO – book and guide “Hit Refresh” to the future, it was a perfect occasion to deploy eBooks with Microsoft Intune. Earlier this year Microsoft introduced support for volume purchase (VPP) support for eBooks via Microsoft Intune. Volume Purchase Program’s (e.g. Microsoft Store for Business, Apple Business Store) lets you purchase multiple licenses for a book that you want to distribute to users in your company.
Improved MDM diagnostics from Windows 10 Insider Preview #16232
Note: the content in this blog post may subject to change as it’s based on Windows 10 Insider Preview build 16232/16237. In the early days of Windows 8.x modern management made it’s appearance but due it’s limitations at that time not widely adopted. The introduction of Windows 10 as the cloud OS with tight integration of Azure AD changed this rapidly.
Control Access to SharePoint Online/OneDrive from unmanaged devices
In a mobile-first cloud first world the need of accessing corporate resources on unmanaged devices is rising. This is the cutting edge of managing your corporate data (keeping it safe) and give your users the freedom to be productive on any device. With Conditional Access we can control access to corporate data (such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Yammer, Delve, Teams, etc.) based on a device (health) status such as being managed or complaint.
Part 2 - Deploying Microsoft Intune Connector in an Enterprise world: troubleshooting
In a diptych I’m sharing my experiences, common practices and challenges of implementing Microsoft Intune PFX connector as certificate deployment mechanism in the enterprise. In my first blog post I covered the basics of implementing a certificate deployment infrastructure based on Microsoft Intune PFX connector. Explained the differences and considerations whether to choose SCEP or PFX as your certificate deployment solution. And explained the certificate issuing workflow.
One license solution rule them all: Azure AD Group Based Licensing!
A long awaited feature became this week available in the new Azure portal: Azure AD Group Based licensing. With this we have an one-stop-shop to assign licenses on a per user- or group based. Azure AD Group Based licensing was already available in the classic Azure portal, however it was limited to Azure AD Premium, Azure Rights Management, Microsoft Intune and Enterprise Mobility + Security licenses.
Part 1 - Deploying Microsoft Intune PFX connector in an Enterprise world…common practices
Last year I had the change to implement PFX certificate infrastructure for a large enterprise customer. Occasion of the project was a migration of Citrix XenMobile (XDM) to Microsoft Intune as strategic mobile device- and application management solution. In a series of blogposts I’m sharing my experiences, design decisions, common practices and challenges of implementing Microsoft Intune PFX connector as certificate deployment mechanism in an enterprise environment.
Top 3 feature enhancements of Windows 10 Creators Update
Yesterday I received an update of the Windows Insiders Program which contains some great improvements which I’d to share with you. Hereby some highlights. Mobile application management With the Creators Update we’re introducing mobile application management, a new feature that will protect data on personal devices without requiring the device to be enrolled in a Mobile Device Management solution.
Microsoft Teams: How to overcome challenges with Windows Information Protection & Conditional Access
Recently Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams, a new chat-based platform in Office 365. For all mobile platforms (Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile) Microsoft released an native app, including a desktop app for Windows 10 and Mac OS X. The Microsoft Teams apps can be downloaded here. After I installed the Microsoft Teams desktop app on Windows 10 I bumped into the following funny message ‘Yikes! Looks like someone pulled the plug on the internet’.
Windows Information Protection…notes from the field! #MSIgnite
Windows Information Protection (WIP), previously known as enterprise data protection (EDP), helps organizations to protect corporate data against potential data leakage.
Azure AD Premium Public Preview Features…a closer look
Microsoft is continuously improving their Azure cloud services while new features get introduced in rapid pace. In this blog I want to consider some new Azure Active Directory Premium features which are currently in public preview. ’These features are: In Azure Active Directory, an administrator can configure groups to have dynamic memberships by setting up a rule that automatically manages group memberships. Groups are generally used to provide access to resources.
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