This blog will be about the Bitlocker recovery key and some proactive remediation (and some background information about how it works) Bitlocker is one of the many security measures you will need to implement to make sure the data is safe when a device is stolen. One of the downsides are the support tickets that could be created when a user simply does not remember their password anymore and tried it too many times. Luckily in a normal situation, you…
Different week, different use case. This blog will be about the impossibility of having GMAIL as your Email client in combination with android work profiles and Conditional Access. Why not using Outlook? That’s indeed a very good question, as Gmail is also not an approved app. I guess users are just used to work with the Gmail app. They prefer the Gmail calendar notifications instead of the Outlook calendar notifications. Of course, we advised to start using Outlook, but the…
This blog will be about why it’s important to automate your Microsoft 365 deployments. Today I was called in to investigate a weird problem. A colleague was trying to set up Intune for a new Microsoft 365 customer. In a normal situation we are doing this by launching our deployment scripts but this time a new colleague wanted to see which steps need to be taken to enroll a customer into Microsoft 365. Everything was going fine until the enrollment…
This short blog will be about, why users don’t need admin permissions to delete the public desktop icons. There are not a lot of reasons why your Azure Ad users need to be local admins on their devices. You can do a lot even without admin permissions. To summon a few: -Restarting services can be done without local admin permissions The non admin user: The battle of restarting services – Call4Cloud -Installing applications The PowerShell Win32 App Express – Call4Cloud -Installing…
Everything is about Zero trust security, you will need to implement it. There are a lot of articles written about zero-trust security the last few months. Some examples: Zero Trust Security (microsoft.com) Take the Zero Trust Assessment (microsoft.com) How to best explain zero trust? It’s like the quote of Ronald Reagan but just with one additional word: Never trust, but verify Zero trust ensures, identities are verified and devices are safe before you can access your corporate apps and data….
This short blog will be about what to do when you have locked yourself out of your device when implementing Intune Applocker device configuration policies. Some time ago I blogged about how a not configured DLL rule can break your devices. The Appocker Dilemma – Call4Cloud At that time, just changing the Applocker device config inside Intune did the job. But what if the new Applocker policy just won’t sync to the device and the old policies still apply. At…
Using Autopilot will give you a lot of benefits, especially when combining it with White Glove. When you have got new devices, you are good to go but when you want to enroll existing “older” devices into Autopilot White Glove you can run into some problems. When we were enrolling a lot of new devices at a customer site no problems were encountered, because we previously enrolled them with Autopilot White glove. After our work was done, the customer asked…
Some time ago, Oliver Kieselbach discovered a very great new method to start the IME sync process with just a simple command: “intunemanagementextension://syncapp”. You could push a shortcut to with command to all your user desktops. An excellent new approach. Like Oliver was mentioning, you could restart the Microsoft intune management service, which also triggers the sync. But when your users have no admin privileges, this is not possible. This got me thinking, shouldn’t it be possible to restart some…
In my last blog I expressed my opinion about how important it is to use the company portal to distribute apps. Like I was mentioning, it can be a lot of work when you need to create all these apps each time a customer asks for one. Of course, you can create one Chocolatey app which simply installs every app. But I prefer to give the user a nice dashboard with all the possible apps he or she can install. You will need to automate this somehow…
I was mentioning in my latest blog, I would show how you can automate the company apps deployment, but first I would like you to show something brand new. This blog will be about how to prevent some files to be uploaded with Onedrive and not using the Onedrive admin center Excluding extensions in the Onedrive admin center was the way to go to make sure some files are not synced with Onedrive. Of course, you don’t want certain files…