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You always wanted to automate a specific action within Intune / the Microsoft Endpoint Manager Portal (MEM) but were afraid of the complexity? The Microsoft Graph API docs deliver you more questions instead of answers? Automating tasks within the MEM portal could be very easy, couldn’t it? I promise it will be much simpler with this magician trick. Microsoft Endpoint Manager Portal The MEM Portal UI relies on the Microsoft Graph API. This means that the UI where you create new settings and policies and the Intune backend are encapsulated with different layers. Communication between the UI and the backend happens with the Microsoft Graph API. With the developer tools we can trace network traffic and discover the request URLs and request body payload which are required to interact with the API. ...

When using device code authentication for PowerShell modules with conditional access you might receive prompts like: “Access has been blocked by Conditional Access policies. The access policy does not allow token issuance” or “AADSTS50097: Device authentication is required”. But what’s the reason for this error and is there a solution available? Examples from the field Device code flow is quite a convenient way to sign-in for an app within the web browser - at least if it works. If not you have to consider other options and that’s probably the reason why you’re reading this blog article. ...

For larger Intune environments a solid role-based access implementation becomes crucial to ensure a secure administration. But how does Intune role-based access control (RBAC) work in combination with scope tags and how to get started? This post gets you covered with explanations and practical examples. Role-based access control within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem Within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, Microsoft provides Azure AD administrative roles to administrate services like Exchange (Exchange administrator), SharePoint (SharePoint administrator), Intune (Intune administrator) and so on. ...

Azure Active Directory guest users really simplify the process to collaborate with external users. Although keeping a good governance on guest accounts can become quite a challenge. The two biggest challenges I often observe are: “Who invited that guest user?” and “Does this guest user still need access to our infrastructure?”. Inspired by a recent post of Thomas Kurth regarding Azure AD Guest Account - Governance and Cleanup I also developed a solution which comes quite close to an “Azure AD Access review” like user experience. ...

Who invited this Azure AD guest user? Examining who invited a specific a guest account can be quite a challenging question if you don’t have a log analytics workspace in place with Azure AD Audit log forwarding configured. Kusto queries for your log analytics workspace The following queries help you to identify who invited a guest. If you haven’t set-up Azure AD audit log forwarding it’s the right time to do it now as described in one of my previous blogs. ...

Who doesn’t love a clean and tidy environment, do you? This also applies for your license assignments in Office 365 and Azure AD. As time passess it is likely to have users with direct license assignments or users which still have old trial licenses assigned. To get rid of those assignments I created a PowerShell script with removal and reporting functionality. Direct link to the script. Identify direct license assignments In the Azure Portal we recognize direct license assignments on a user account by viewing the “Assignment Paths”: ...

I’m thrilled to introduce the intune-drive-mapping-generator which creates PowerShell scripts to map network drives with Intune. The tool is open source and built on ASP.NET Core MVC. The intune-drive-mapping-generator is your tool of choice to: Generate an Intune PowerShell script to map network drives on Azure AD joined devices Seamlessly migrate existing network drive mapping group policies Generate a network drive mapping configuration from scratch Use an existing Active Directory group as a filter to deploy all your drive mapping configurations within one script This all happens without scripting effort. You receive a fully functional PowerShell script for the deployment with Intune. ...