Intune

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? ...

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. ...

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. ...

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) ...

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. ...

With the availability of the new Edge browser based on chromium I gained the first experiences about configuring the browser in an enterprise environment. Of course I want to share those with you. This post hopefully helps you to roll-out and configure the new Edge Browser with Microsoft Intune. Install the new Edge Chromium with Intune The installation of Edge is not the main topic of this post. The Edge browser is available in Intune as built-in app type like the Office 365 suite. More information about the installation process is available here. ...

Microsoft recently announced to install a Bing extension on new and existing Office 365 ProPlus installations which will set Bing as the default search engine starting with the first Office 365 ProPlus release in 2020 - not appreciated Microsoft and definitely not what customers want! The extension will be shipped for new Office installations and existing clients with Office 365 ProPlus installed when they update. Update 11.02.2020: “ The Microsoft Search in Bing browser extension will not be automatically deployed with Office 365 ProPlus.” - I will keep this post for the archives. ...

Recently a customer using Microsoft Intune requested to deploy a TrueType font required by one of their line of business apps. Because Intune does not offer a native solution to deploy fonts it was quite clear that a PowerShell script or Intune Win32 app should do the trick. Note that the mentioned PowerShell scripts can also be used for app deployments with Configuration Manager (MEMCM). How to install a font programmatically? There seem to be multiple options depending on the operating system version. I’ve tested this with Windows 10 1909. And broke it down to the following steps: ...

Apple tokens for Mobile Device Management like APNS certificates, DEP and VPP tokens need a renewal every 365 days. When an APNS certificate has expired you are forced to re-enroll all of your MDM managed apple devices. To avoid any headaches I put together a few lines of PowerShell which monitor the expiration with Azure automation and send a notification to Microsoft teams or email. Script The script is intended to run recurring on Azure automation. And I recommend to setup a schedule which runs the script once a week. The script checks the following apple tokens and triggers the teams notification if it expires in less than the configured number of days: ...