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While doing some Android Enterprise enrollment tests for corporate-owned devices with work profiles I stumbled over the following issue after signing-in with the work account: “Page not found”. The solution is fairly simple, just double check that your user does not have the device enrollment manager role assigned, which can be found under the device enrollment pane: The docs tell us: If you’re enrolling Android Enterprise personally-owned work profile or corporate-owned work profile devices by using a DEM account, there is a limit of 10 devices that can be enrolled per account. Microsoft Docs ...

When involved in new projects I often find a bunch of old profiles in the Microsoft Endpoint Management Console. Before going ahead with a new implementation it’s the best time to clean-up all the leftovers from past ramblings. How to identify stale profiles If one or multiple statements are met for a profile it is very likely to be a stale profile: No assignments, assignments to a group without members “Test” included within the profile name or description Last modified points back in time for more than a year No devices reported success/failure status for the given profile type What to do with stale profiles So let’s be brave and delete them. But Intune doesn’t offer any [CTRL] + [Z] or recycle bin possibilities so we might want to have some kind of archive, just in case? ...

I like to have a linux machine for some lab stuff which I can access from multiple machines prefereably over SSH. Because Windows 10 ships with an integrated SSH client and Windows Terminal looks just awesome I wanted to use Windows Terminal to access my linux machine running on Azure over SSH. Today I’d like to show you my setup. Generate a Key Pair ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (C:\Users\NicolaSuter/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory 'C:\Users\NicolaSuter/.ssh'. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in C:\Users\NicolaSuter/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in C:\Users\NicolaSuter/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Add SSH config file C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.ssh\config ...

Recently I got a DM on Twitter with a question about how to export and import Endpoint Security profiles with Microsoft Graph. Besides a technical answer which might be of interest for you, I’d like to show you the workflow I used to give a proper reply. Original question: Hi @nicolonsky, I was advised on the MS Elite Partner focus groups team (MEM Automation) to reach out to you regarding my question about export/import policies from Endpoint Security in Intune. I’ve been able to export the Disk Encryption policy (via graph explorer), but haven’t been able to find the correct format to use to upload/import it. I was hoping that you would be able to advise on how to go about achieving this. ...

I recently bought a Surface Pro 7 with an Intel Core i7 and 256 GB SSD and it was a quite good deal. I’m using it primarily for my studies in computer sciences which involves lots of development with Java, Python, C, Linux and so on. Furthermore, I’m using it to write blog posts for this blog. One thing which annoyed me since day 1 was the fan going absolutely crazy when plugged to AC power. Having only OneNote open and a couple of browser tabs and maybe teams the noise was way too loud and even heard by other participants in meetings. ...

Too lazy to sign your PowerShell scripts? Yes of course it provides security benefits but performing the steps manually can be easily forgotten and re-signing needs to happen after every script change. Because I like CI/CD topics and have not found a solution on the internet I decided to build a solution based on Azure capabilities. Furthermore, I wanted a solution which does not require to hand out the code signing certificate to the respective script author which can be useful if you have a bunch of people writing PowerShell scripts. ...

While looking into the new Microsoft Defender Antivirus report available in MEM (Intune) I discovered some machines which did not report any recent Defender antimalware scans, despite configured via configuration profile. Of course, AV scans are kinda old-fashioned against rapidly evolving threats but a regular quick scan won’t hurt anyone. Instead of having a look at every single machine affected, I decided to try out the new proactive remediations feature which went globally available last week and let endpoint analytics do the detection and remediation work for me. As a reference, I used the Tutorial: Proactive remediations from Microsoft which covers the process quite well. ...

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. ...

Creating assignments and software deployment groups for Intune mobile apps is quite a repetitive and manual task. Because of that, I want to share a PowerShell script with you which allows you to automatically create software deployment groups in Azure AD and the assignments for various intents. The script allows you to: Create Azure AD groups (install uninstall purpose) Pick existing groups based on displayName Assign Intune mobile apps (tested for Win32 and MSI LOB apps) ...