Security Baselines in Microsoft Intune are templates that contains policy configurations that by default are configured with the best practice from the Microsoft security teams. And that makes a Security Baseline the perfect starting point when creating a new policy set for the modern workplace. When creating a Security Baseline, all settings are pre-configured with the security best-practice...
Category - Microsoft
Enterprise Mobility + Security, Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
How to exclude Shortcuts from syncing to OneDrive with Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Microsoft Intune
Microsoft OneDrive is a great service for storing your files. And when you have “Known Folder Redirection” enabled, your Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders are redirected to OneDrive and synched to the cloud. This way you have the same Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders available on every device which benefits the user experience. However, you have applications that place a...
Enterprise Mobility + Security, Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Windows 10
How to move or restore a Windows 11 VM in Hyper-V with TPM enabled (Shielded VMs)
In my previous blog I showed you step-by-step how to install Windows 11 as a VM in Hyper-V. The difference with Windows 10 is that Windows 11 requires a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip in order to boot. As you could read in my previous blog, this is no problem at all. However, I’m the kind of guy that regularly reinstalls my laptop/desktop and also uses multiple devices to run the same...
Enterprise Mobility + Security, Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Windows 10
How to install Windows 11 in Hyper-V
Windows 11 has now been released over a month ago and many companies are now considering the switch. It is always good to test extensively first and get some hands-on experience. If you don’t have a physical PC available to test Windows 11, a good alternative is to do this in a virtual machine (VM). Personally, I use VMs a lot when I need to test Microsoft Intune configurations or when...
Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
How to setup Android Zero-Touch Enrollment with Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Microsoft Intune
Android Zero-Touch Enrollment is a (free) service to automate and enforce MDM enrollments for Android devices running Android 9 or higher, independent of device manufacture. It offers end-to-end security because the MDM enrollment cannot be skipped by the user. The first time the user tuns on the device, clear instructions will be displayed to start the enrollment. All policies and applications...
Enterprise Mobility + Security, Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
How to add iOS devices manually in the Apple Business Manager (ABM) for automatic Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Microsoft Intune enrollment
It’s a best practice to enroll corporate owned iOS/iPadOS devices via the Apple Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) program (PKA Device Enrollment Program – DEP). It offers “out of the box” security because the enrollment with the MDM solution will start automatically and the user can’t work around it. Next to automatic device enrollment it makes it possible to set...
Windows 365 Cloud PC
How to create and deploy a Windows 11 custom image with Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PC
Less then a month ago I wrote a blog about How to create and deploy Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PC Custom Images. What could be the case with cloud services such as Windows 365 is that developments can go fast. So, what have changed in the last 4 weeks after wring my previous blog? In this case a lot! First of all, Microsoft released Windows 11 (Oct, 5) and made it directly available for Windows...
Power Automate, Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
How to stop receiving “Your weekly PIM digest” emails – A workaround
Microsoft Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is a powerful Azure AD service that provides time-based and approval-based role activation for access to resources in Azure, Azure AD and connected Microsoft services like Microsoft Intune and Microsoft 365. In company environments I always recommend to use PIM. Once PIM is activated you will receive a “Weekly PIM digest” if you have Privileged Role...
UPDATE : A new version of this blog with Windows 11 Gen2 images is available here. With Windows 365 you can deploy your Cloud PCs with a standard Azure Gallery image. There are Windows 10 Enterprise images available optimized for Cloud PC, with or without the Microsoft 365 Apps pre-installed on it (including Microsoft Teams with AV redirection optimization). However, with Windows 365 Enterprise...
In August 2021, Microsoft released Windows 365 Cloud PC. A new cloud-based service that provides Cloud PCs to end users. With this Windows 365 Cloud PC, users get their own personalized desktop in the cloud, which can be accessed from anywhere on any device. It is optimized for Microsoft 365 including Microsoft Teams AV redirection. Unlike Azure Virtual Desktop you pay a fixed price per-user per...
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Intune
How to manage your Windows Virtual Desktop session hosts (single user) with Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Microsoft Intune.
By default all Windows Virtual Desktop session hosts are joined with your domain. And in most cases you will apply policy configurations to them via Group Policy Objects (GPO). If you also using Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Microsoft Intune for managing Windows 10 devices, it might also be worth considering to manage your WVD session hosts VMs with it as well.
At the end of March 2021, Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop went GA. It will provide a dashboard built on Azure Monitor Workbooks that gives you insides of your Windows Virtual Desktop environment, including; Connection Diagnostics, Connection Performance, Host Diagnostics, Host Performance, Utilizations, Users, Clients and Alerts. In this blog post I will guide you step-by-step how to...
Enterprise Mobility + Security, Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
How to setup Samsung Knox Mobile Enrollment with Microsoft Intune
Samsung Knox Mobile Enrollment (KME) is a Zero Touch provisioning solution. You can fully automate the enrollment of new, or factory reset devices into an MDM solution like Microsoft Intune. The end user only have to turn on their company-owned Android device and connect to a Wi-Fi or cellular network. This will start the enrollment which the end user cannot cancel or work around.
About Robin Hobo
I work as a Senior Solution Architect with focus on the Modern Workspace. I am specialized in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Windows 365 and Microsoft EM+S (including Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Microsoft Intune).
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