Microsoft Ignite is an event to learn innovative ways to build solutions and migrate and manage your infrastructure. You connect with over 25,000 individuals focused on software development, security, architecture, and IT. Explore new hands-on experiences that will help you innovate in areas such as security, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure and development. For those of you, who would like to watch the ignite videos offline and download slide decks, they are available at https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions? but difficult to search one by one and watch it when needed. There are few Powershell scripts available online to download ignite videos however I have…
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Teams calling is a feature that allows you to provide your users with a Direct Inward Dialing number facility or DID. This allows your users to communicate effectively with customers and business partners who are external to your company. This also allows your customers and business partners to reach you directly using Public Telephony whereas you are reachable on Microsoft Teams with an extension number.Before you can set up users in your organization to make and receive phone calls, you must assign phone numbers to them. To know more about this you can read an article here. we started off…
It's Microsoft Ignite this week (Sun, 3 Nov 2019 – Thu, 7 Nov 2019) with tons of announcements . One of the key announcements around ConfigMgr/Intune area is Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) and licensing for intune.Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) is an integrated solution for managing all of your devices. Microsoft brings together Configuration Manager and Intune, without a complex migration, and with simplified licensing. Continue to leverage your existing Configuration Manager investments, while taking advantage of the power of the Microsoft cloud at your own pace.The following Microsoft management solutions are all now part of the Microsoft Endpoint Manager brand:Configuration…
Windows information protection (WIP) helps to protect enterprise apps and data against accidental data leak on enterprise-owned devices and personal devices that employees bring to work without requiring changes to your environment or other apps. For more information about WIP, please refer here I recently installed the Microsoft To-Do application on my windows 10 from the Windows store. After installing Microsoft To DO and try to sign-in, it throws an error ‘ A windows information protection (WIP) policy is preventing the use of Microsoft To-Do on this device’ This issue occurs because the device is enrolled to intune and there…
Windows Autopilot is a collection of technologies used to set up and pre-configure new devices, getting them ready for productive use. You can also use Windows Autopilot to reset, repurpose and recover devices. This solution enables an IT department to achieve the above with little to no infrastructure to manage, with a process that's easy and simple. For more information about windows autopilot, please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-autopilot/windows-autopilot I was testing windows autopilot in the lab with some specific requirements for customer. There are many videos and series of guides available on how to get windows autopilot working. When you create an…
Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) delivers an "umbrella" approach for patch and application management, but when it comes to third-party application management and system management operations the process is still tiresome. SCCM current branch allows you to subscribe to third-party catalogs, publish updates to your software update point (SUP), and then deploy them to clients however it has limitations patching third-party components running on a network. With a huge number of security vulnerabilities attributed to non-Microsoft applications, it is mandatory to patch these applications to shield your enterprise from data breaches. To be more precise, Adobe and Mozilla applications…
Microsoft released the technical preview for Configuration Manager, version 1910. These technical preview introduces new functionality that Microsoft is working on and It introduces new features that aren't yet included in the current branch .You can Install this version to update and add new features to your technical preview site but not available as baseline for new installation.If you want to install Technical preview in lab ,then you need to download baseline version technical preview 1907 and then do console update. Download baseline versions from the TechNet Evaluation Center.Technical preview version 1910 has the following features/improvements:Deploy Microsoft Edge, version 77…
About an year ago (Sep 2018),Microsoft announced the support for Win32 app management capabilities using Intune. Intune-only customers can now leverage management capabilities for their Win32 line-of-business (LOB) apps . For more information about Intune Standalone - Win32 app management read here. Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool to pre-process Windows Classic apps. The packaging tool converts application installation files into the .intunewin format. The packaging tool also detects the parameters required by Intune to determine the application installation state. After you use this tool on your apps, you will be able to upload and assign the apps in the Microsoft…