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…
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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…
Microsoft recently announced that ,Adobe has integrated Microsoft Intune application protection directly into the Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app for iOS and android. For more information, please refer https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/09/05/adobe-acrobat-ios-android-microsoft-365-app-protection/ To deliver the best experience, Adobe will discontinue support for the Adobe Acrobat Reader Intune mobile app on November 30, 2019. All customers must migrate to Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app, which now supports Microsoft Intune, to continue working in Acrobat on the go. For more information,please refer https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/intune-app-end-of-life.html With this new app for iOS , there are some changes introduced which may confuse the end users on how to sign…
Recently, we had a requirement from customer, that they wanted to deploy applications /apply device configurations etc. from Intune to Azure AD Joined devices ONLY but not other devices like BYOD intune enrolled devices. (MAM/MDM) With intune, you can target apps ,device configurations, profiles ,deployments to both user groups OR device groups but not to specific users or device. If you target to user groups ,then it will apply to user irrespective of device join type whether it is intune enrolled (BYOD) or Azure AD join (Corporate device) . If you perform Azure AD join through auto-pilot then the…
SCCM has multiple discovery methods help you discover devices on your network, devices and users from Active Directory, or users from Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Read more about the discovery methods in SCCM https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/servers/deploy/configure/about-discovery-methods AD system discovery help to discover computer resources that can be used to create collections and queries. You can also install the SCCM Client client on a discovered device by using client push installation. In order to successfully discover the computer (by creating the DDR Record) in domain by AD system Discovery , it must be able to identify the computer account and then successfully…
Friend of mine had asked for help to create device based dynamic group with deviceOSType=iOS ,and deviceOSversion less than 12.4.1. The reason for this group was to limit anything below iOS 12.4.1 for iPhone devices and MDM managed devices only to have a collection. So that ,we can exclude them from VPN to restrict users from internal resources. This is because of vulnerability issues on lower version (12.4.1) as per Apple blogs. First when i read this request ,i thought this can be achieved with dynamic group membership rules available from Azure AD and i have shared the Microsoft Docs…
I did detailed blog post on 'how to get office 365 proplus activation status' with help of extended MOF file and inventory changes. With this method ,you will get the activation details such as user email address, shared computer activation etc. For more information, please refer http://eskonr.com/2018/10/how-to-get-office-365-proplus-activation-status-and-excluded-apps-etc-using-sccm-configmgr/ .This method requires extension of MOF files ,make changes to hardware inventory which will then create new SQL views . If you don't' want go through all these , but just looking for office activation status (yes or No) ,then this blog will help you to achieve it.In this blog post, we will…
Recently ,we had requirement to allow ipad devices to connect to corporate network. This is due to the fact that ,some of the iOS apps that are being developed inhouse need to be tested with corporate network ONLY. In order to evaluate and test the app , the ipad devices need to connect to office network (corporate) . The team who does the testing are at remote site and there is no corporate network. If you are pure MAM shop, please do note that MAM does not enforce device compliance. The reason being, you cannot enforce device configuration policies. That…