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Installing Win32 Apps with Microsoft Intune

September 27, 2018 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

There have been a number of great announcements at the Microsoft Ignite conference this year, and one of the most exciting was the public mention of support for Win32 app deployment in Microsoft Intune. Support for legacy application delivery has been one of the most common roadblocks preventing enterprise customers from adopting Modern Management for Windows 10, so closing this gap is a huge win for those wanting to provide applications to their Intune-managed systems. So what does this capability…

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Cloud Managed Desktop: Provisioning Package + AutoPilot

July 24, 2017 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

As we look at the new Modern Management paradigm, leveraging Azure Active Directory and Intune to manage Windows 10 devices on the go, one of the challenges is onboarding the device in a simple and convenient way. With Windows AutoPilot, we can input device-specific information from the manufacturer ahead of time and apply a configuration profile to those machines. The result is a more customized and branded OOBE wizard…but there are still some things that we may want to do…

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Quick Look at SCCM TP1612 Task Sequence Wizard ‘Previous’ Button

December 21, 2016 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

Anyone who has worked with SCCM OS deployment for the last several years is thrilled with an early Christmas present this year: the Task Sequence wizard finally has a Back button (ok, it’s actually “Previous” but you get the point)!! I personally cannot count how many times I’ve PXE booted a machine and entered the TS wizard password only to see an error stating that no policy was found for the computer…or selected a Task Sequence only to receive an…

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Windows Information Protection Policies in Configuration Manager

July 28, 2016 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

The release of the 1606 build for SCCM Current Branch brought several new management capabilities around security. One of these enhancements is the ability to set policies for the new Windows Information Protection feature of Windows 10 (formerly known as Enterprise Data Protection). Let’s take a quick look at some of the changes and new features. These policy options can be configured as a Configuration Item for Windows 10 clients managed by Configuration Manager: Where some of these options were…

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Intune Conditional Access and Selective Wipe–Caveats Abound

May 19, 2016 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

A key piece of the enterprise mobility narrative centers around control of data, especially email. There are a number of different scenarios out in the various environments, and it can be a little confusing as to how the pieces all fit together. In this post, we’re addressing the scenario of a company that wants to enable BYOD for mobile devices to allow access to corporate email while ensuring they are able to remove the email from that device when the…

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MMS 2016 User Personality Management–Application Mapping

May 18, 2016 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

With the amount of content covered in today’s MMS 2016 session on User Personality Management, we didn’t get a chance to do a deeper dive into the application mapping and User Device Affinity installation methods in the Task Sequence. Let’s start with the application mapping feature. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) has included Package Mapping capabilities for legacy Packages for several years, but the product was not updated to also include an equivalent capability for the new Application model introduced in…

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Managing UE-V Settings Location Templates with Group Policy

May 16, 2016 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

(Originally posted 7/9/2013. Reposting for reference) As a follow up to the previous post on working with UE-V templates catalog, let’s look at what it takes to manage those custom templates using the Group Policy ADMX template provided by Microsoft. After downloading and installing the UE-V ADMX template, we can open the Group Policy Management Console and see the available settings for the Settings Location Templates: These are located under both Computer Configuration and User Configuration in the following path: …

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Intune Support for iOS7 Ending Soon

May 3, 2016 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

Companies relying upon Microsoft Intune for managing iOS 7 devices will soon need to update or replace those devices to continue support. Per an informational bulletin in the Intune Admin Portal, support for iOS 7 (specifically for the Intune Company Portal app) will be ending in the near future. As the bulletin states, very soon users will no longer be able to enroll new devices via the Microsoft Intune Company Portal application from the iTunes app store, and currently enrolled…

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Using PowerShell to Help Clear a ConfigMgr Inbox Backlog

April 9, 2016 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

(Originally posted 11/10/2015. Reposting for reference) While working with a client recently, I noticed that the ConfigMgr console was not showing up-to-date information for things like Endpoint Protection status and several other timely sets of data. Having been through the fun that is Inbox backlogs before, I went ahead and checked to see if there were any file backlogs. I certainly wasn’t about to browse through all of the inbox folders to look for large numbers of files…not when…

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Cleaning Out Previous Windows ICD Projects

April 9, 2016 Phil Schwan Comments 0 Comment

(Originally posted 7/29/2015. Reposting for reference) With the public release of Windows 10 today came the release of the updated Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 10. With all the bugs in the preview releases of the Win10ADK, I was anxious to get the new one downloaded and installed. After uninstalling the previous version and installing the new one, I launched the Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (ICD) tool…and was presented with all of the previous projects I…

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