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Do you backup/export your Intune policies – encrypted?
Since a while ago I encountered that Microsoft Graph returns some policies encrypted during an export to JSON. Using these exports in a backup and restore scenario will not work! More specifially this happens in windows10CustomConfiguration if consists of a row with a string, the export might look something like this while using the Intune…
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As a AAD-Ninja – Phase out changes with dynamic groups!
Another quick post. So from time to time you need to phase out changes in your environment to random users in your organisation. You can for sure create a script and add people according to your criteria and requirements, but I have another idea for you! Use Azure AD dynamic groups to create a growing…
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Intune certificate updates: affects Intune, SCEP, ConfigMgr
This may be of highly interest to you, so understand if you are impacted start by reading the article source Intune Certificate Updates: Action may be required for continued connectivity So if you use IOS SDk, Intune App wrapper or Xamarin Bindings you have to take actions If you use App procetion policies(APP or MAM)…
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Backup BitLocker recovery key to Azure AD?
Converting from storing your BitLocker keys in Active Directory to Azure AD? Good choice, together with Microsoft Intune you are very well positioned to manage BitLocker, with support of Key rotation from Intune and client side. But maybe you noticed that not all your Windows device have stored the keys in Azure AD? No problem…
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Windows 10 20H2 / 2009 / October release Available now
Finally Windows 10 20H2 is released to the public, but for all the participants in Windows Insider programme the news are “old” news 🙂 This is the beauty of being a member to the program, testing all the features and affecting the development of Windows by giving feedback to the team behind. Thanks! First of…
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Don’t wrap DsRegCmd with PowerShell – Use this to get Azure AD information from the local computer
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen scripts that is trying to wrap dsregcmd /status output to get information such as tenant Id, check if the computer is joined to Azure AD and more But isn’t there a better way? So started looking, for sure, some information are found in registry, but that’s a…
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Get join information with PowerShell – the hard way
Why make it simple when you can make it the hard way?– Because you can? 🙂 The reason for why I needed this is not relevant, but the options when you get information from your computer is. Quite often there are multiple ways to get information: Pure PowerShell commands, registry, environment variables, running cmd/3rd party…
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Some Azure AD groups for Intune management
Quick post on some Azure AD dynamic groups that I use for manage parts of Intune, push apps, send configuration, create Intune roles and such AZ-MDM-ANE-All Android for Work Devices (All Android Enterprise Work Profile Devices)(device.deviceOSType -eq “AndroidForWork”) AZ-MDM-ANE-All Android Enterprise (All other Android enterprise devices, kiosk)(device.deviceOSType -contains “AndroidEnterprise”) AZ-MDM-ANE-All Samsung devices (All Samsung devices)(device.deviceManufacturer…
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Case of upgrade stuck on 62%
For quite some time I had problem with my Windows Insider machine, and I hadn’t had time to look at the problems until now.. Anyway the upgrade got stuck at 62% as you see on the picture above and I could upgrade to the next Insider version. Follow the blog to see how I solved…
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Have you registered for MS Build yet?
If you have not done it yet, register to Microsoft Build digital conference and build your agenda here https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions Also want to recommend to join in for the Windows Insider sessions listed below! May 19th Mixercast 7pm to 9pm (PDT) – https://mixer.com/windowsinsider May 20th Mixercast 10am to 12pm (PDT) – https://mixer.com/windowsinsider May 20th Expert Q&A:…
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