Author: Eswar Koneti

Windows information protection is mobile application management (MAM) for windows 10 and it helps to protect the enterprise data from unauthorized or accidental data leakage.On Jan 15th, 2020, Microsoft released a new edge chromium-browser which is so amazing. When it was released, some of our users requested to roll out to their devices which are Azure AD joined/Intune enrolled devices.we use windows information protection to protect the corporate data for the approved/managed/enlighten applications. For more information about windows information protection and how to configure, please refer hereBefore releasing any feature /product/application to end-users (especially in the cloud era), we do…

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Microsoft whiteboard is out almost 2 years that is available to users on Windows 10 which lets users to type, draw, erase and attach notes, images, and beyond what you cannot do it on a physical whiteboard. Following are some of the activities that you can do with whiteboard: Running effective meetings Brainstorming Team sprint planning Project planning Problem-solving Incident management Whiteboard app is available in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10, and on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. You can also use the whiteboard in the browser. Microsoft Whiteboard is integrated with office 365 (Microsoft Teams) and…

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DEP

I was recently contacted by a team who was unable to see the volume purchase program app in the intune apps.The customer has working intune setup to enroll the iOS/iPadOS devices purchased through apple's Automated Device Enrollment (formerly DEP – Device Enrollment Program). AED/DEP lets you enroll a large number of devices without touching them.Since the customer has DEP, applications are purchased through the Volume Purchase Program and will be synced to intune for the deployment of apps to user mobile devices.Few days ago, there was an app that the customer has requested the team to purchase and then deploy…

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There was a request from twitter friend who is trying to create SQL report to list the content of distribution point group with content status such as total targeted, installed, progress and errors. Distribution point groups is available in configuration manager for almost several years . This basically provide a logical grouping of distribution points for content distribution. we can create and use DP groups groups to manage and monitor content from a central location for distribution points that span multiple sites. For more information about managing distribution point and distribution point groups, please refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/core/servers/deploy/configure/install-and-configure-distribution-points When you create DP…

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Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager 2002 production build is out today. It is now available as in-console (for now only fast-ring) and baseline (will be available in the next couple of weeks). It has a bunch of new and updated features. For full list of features and installation, please refer http://eskonr.com/2020/04/sccm-configmgr-current-branch-2002-is-available-as-in-console-and-baseline-version/ One of the features that is available in this build version is ‘Show boundary groups for devices in configuration manager console’. clients use boundary group’s for site assignment, content location (DP), SUP, MP, and SMP. SMP doesn't use fallback relationships. From this build version, we can now identify the client…

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CMG

Microsoft releases the configuration manager production builds 3 times a year. The first production build for this year,which is configuration manager 2002 is released today and is available as an in-console update (fastring only for now) and baseline version. You can apply this update on sites that run version 1806,1810, 1906 or 1910 from the console. You can also use this build 2002 to install new configuration manager sites. Before we start upgrading the site to latest build ,some of the interesting features are listed below. Following are some of the exciting features that we were all waiting to see…

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DEP

Recently, I was assisting a colleague of mine on the iOS app deployment that was purchased through the apple volume purchase program with Microsoft Intune. The app was purchased through VPP and synced to intune successfully and assigned this app to a security group (user-based) as required. The devices that were used by users are corporate-owned and supervised with some lockdown features. When the app was deployed to a user-based security group, users were prompted to key in the credentials. Since the Apple store is restricted by the DEP profile, users cannot sign into the store. Following is the error…

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CMG

  Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the situation is constantly changing around the world, the organization's started moving the workforce either from remote or work from home. Considering the number of users working remotely, it is very important to make sure that the devices are protected in all possible ways starting from windows security patching, antivirus, and other security tools available on the device. For windows security patching (manage the devices remotely) using SCCM/configuration manager, you have different options in configuration manager such as cloud management gateway, co-management. If your organization has installed a VPN on the endpoint, you…

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