Teaching you how to be a device management expert
For the longest time, in order to enroll Android devices into any mobile device management platform you had to use the “Android device administrator.” Introduced in Android 2.2, this was effectively a giving the...
To deploy updates for Intune-only managed devices, you have to use Windows Update for Business rings. This is a good thing – using update rings sets you up for proactively monitoring and managing Windows...
Our very first blog post on Device Advice was The modern way to remove Windows 10 in-box apps without them reinstalling. Although we recommend that method to everyone, there’s a few default apps that...
In a previous post, Autopilot Reset – What does it do? How is it different?, we covered the different Wipe options in Intune. Lo and behold, a few months later and we have another...
If you haven’t had a chance to use the new Edge, you’re really missing out. Other than being Microsoft’s browser strategy going forward (a good enough reason to try it out), it has a...
Head on over to devicemanagement.microsoft.com to try the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center! Announced at Ignite, MEM is the “convergence of Intune and Configuration Manager functionality and data.” Check out some of the announcement...
Azure Arc, introduced at Microsoft Ignite 2019, extends Azure management tools to on-premises infrastructure. I’ll go over how to set up the agent in this guide. Head over to the Azure Arc pane (https://aka.ms/hybridmachineportal)....
My last two posts have covered the DISA STIG in-depth. In reality they were mostly mimicking work I’ve done before – leveraging LGPO and MMAT to apply GPOs. When I first set out to...
MMAT, or MDM Migration Analysis Tool, is an incredible tool that you can use for converting group policy items to custom CSPs. For most organizations, the biggest pain point for moving to MDM only...
Many Government customers I work with have an umbrella requirement to implement DISA STIGs as their baseline security policy. For those unfamiliar, DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) STIGs (Security Technical Implementation Guide) are a...
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