Intune – All about Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Intune manage write access to mobile storage and removable data drives

Posted on November 11, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 476 Views

I was recently working on an assignment to manage windows 10 devices using Microsoft Intune. One of the ask is to Block the write access to the mobile storage devices when the user plugs into the windows device and Allow write access to the removal data drives (thumb drives) if they are bitlocker protected. I…

How to manage the bitlocker reboot (toast notification) in intune with device compliance policy

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 3 Comments | 1,615 Views

There was recently a discussion on twitter on how the bitlocker encryption is being enforced using intune and what the possible ways to bring the device into compliant state post the bitlocker task is done. Read the conversation here Based on the discussion, I thought I would probably write a blog post on how to…

Troubleshooting windows Autopilot – stuck at account setup working on it

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 4 Comments | 27,382 Views

Updated: 27-May-2022 Windows Autopilot is a collection of technologies such as Azure AD, Microsoft Intune etc., used to set up and pre-configure new devices, getting them ready for productive use. When working with windows autopilot, there is one common question that keep rising in the forums is, account setup stuck and takes longer time while…

How to upgrade the Intune certificate connector

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 10 Comments | 10,056 Views

Microsoft recently announced that, Starting April 2022, certificate connectors earlier than version 6.2101.13.0 will be deprecated and will show a status of Error. This status does not affect functionality. Starting June 2022, such connectors will not be able to issue certificates. This includes both the PFX Certificate Connector for Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Intune Connector,…

SCCM Right Click Tool Managed workloads of co-managed device

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 1,967 Views

Co-management (cloud attach) enables you to manage Windows 10 or later devices simultaneously by using both Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune. For more information about co-management, please refer here. For a device to be co-managed, one of the pre-requisite is Windows devices must be connected to Azure AD using Hybrid Azure AD joined or Azure…

Building controlled user identity with AzureAD (OAuthOpenID Connect)

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 366 Views

Note: This article was first published on www.procloudguru.com by Alpesh .Since the website is down, I am publishing it here. The reason behind writing of this blog is to share my view on how the traditional authentication/authorization can be modernized. Gone are the days of monolithic apps which shared a common security portal or user…

How to disable Firewall and network protection notifications using Microsoft Intune

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 4 Comments | 4,676 Views

In this blog post, we will see how to use Microsoft Intune to disable the firewall and network protection notifications that pop-up on windows 10 workstation. The use case could be that, if you have POS devices where you need to disable/hide all notifications. We are not disabling the firewall instead it will be notifications…

Get a list of devices based on iOS enrolment type – dynamic groups in Azure Active Directory

Posted on November 28, 2020 by Eswar Koneti | 2 Comments | 6,184 Views

A year ago, Apple announced a new method of iOS/iPad device enrolment which is called User Enrollment. This enrolment method is available in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Catalina and later OS. with user enrollment, we can use federated authentication to link Apple Business Manager to your instance of Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). As…