Author: Eswar Koneti

CMG

Few months ago i blogged about How to install SCCM client using win32 apps in Intune for co-management and CMG .when you create a win32 app for ConfigMgr client with the command line switches as said in the blog post, ccmsetup.exe will always get the source files from CMG. The download of the client files from CMG happens due to the parameter /mp. This parameter will help client to download the content from the nearest distribution point. we want to avoid client to download client files from CMG and always use local source files (win32 app) that was downloaded from…

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Microsoft Intune offers a policy-based protected browser which are intuned Managed Browser (retire soon) and Microsoft Edge mobile browser. Microsoft Edge delivers more compare to Intune managed browser and Edge is the future secure mobile browser for Microsoft Intune. The following are the feature comparison between Intune managed browser and Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge mobile browser does provide the additional security controls such as: Control In-Private browsing, Control personal accounts and browsing for allowed accounts only. Microsoft has announced the depreciation of Intune managed browser at the Ignite 2019 with the following deadlines. Retirement announcement: 6th Nov 2019 Intune will…

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Microsoft has released update 1910 for SCCM which is now termed as Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (#MEMCM) and is available as in-console update ONLY. You can apply this update on sites that runs on 1810 and later. For more information, please read If you want to install a new Configuration Manager site, you can download 1902 as a baseline from the volume licensing portal.For more information about how to perform in-console update for configuration manager update 1910, please refer hereAfter the in-console update, you need to manually upgrade any secondary sites by right click on the site and choose upgrade.You…

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Microsoft released an update 1910 for Configuration Manager. This update is available as an in-console update and not a baseline version. You can apply this update on sites that run version 1806 (Min version 5.00.8692.0000) or later. If you want to install a new Configuration Manager, then you must use the baseline version which is 1902 and then perform an in-console update to receive update 1910. Recently, at Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced ,that they are integrating Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager, and more into a single solution called Microsoft Endpoint Manager. For more information about Microsoft Endpoint Manager, please read here…

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The Microsoft Store for Business (wsfb) is where you find and acquire Windows apps for your organization. When you connect the store to Configuration Manager, you then synchronize the list of apps you've acquired. View these apps in the Configuration Manager console, and deploy them like you deploy any other app. More information about Microsoft Store for Business, please read here Our users were trying to install some apps from the Microsoft store. when users try to install the apps from the store, it failed because of proxy issues. Microsoft Store on Windows 10 sign-in page goes through login.live and…

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EMS

About an year ago, Microsoft announced Windows (Win32) app deployment using Intune, since then it has been improving with new additions/features. Intune standalone allows greater Win32 app management capabilities. While it is possible for cloud-connected customers to use Configuration Manager for Win32 app management, Intune-only customers will have greater management capabilities for their Win32 line-of-business (LOB) apps. For more information about Win32 App management, please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/apps/apps-win32-app-management A few days ago, I was troubleshooting an issue on the autopilot device for win32 apps and some of the apps will not install for various reasons. On windows, if app install is…

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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…

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