You may have noticed that an Autopilot hash looks a little different every time you create it. In this blog post, I want to show you how to encode an Autopilot hash and display its content.
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Autopilot — Articles by Jannik Reinhard
Remove the Primary User from Intune Devices with PowerShell (Shared Device)
If an Intune device is not enrolled as a shared device or kiosk device, it always has a primary user. This creates a relation between the device and the user. This user is also used to license the device. This user only has the possibility to see this device in the company portal / company portal website and trigger certain self service actions. Also, while troubleshooting, an Intune admin can select this user in the Troubleshooting + support menu in Intune and directly see their devices.
The primary user is automatically added after the enrollment of an Intune managed device. It is possible to change the user to an other or remove this user to switch the device to a shared device.
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Ultimate MEM Tour Part 3: Endpoint Security in Intune
Welcome to the third part of my blog series. In this blog series, I’ll give you a tour through the features that Microsoft Intune offers us. In the last two blogs, we looked at the topics of device and application management. Today we would like to take a look at device security. The biggest goal companies have is to protect their devices and data from outsiders. Every day there are new attack methods or threats that companies need to protect against. Microsoft Intune provides many features that use the power of the cloud to achieve this goal. At the center of this is Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
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Ultimate MEM Tour Part 1: Microsoft Intune Devices
According to the Gartner quadrant published on August 16, Microsoft is by far the leader in the area of unified endpoint management tools. Microsoft Intune has played a major role in achieving this clear ranking. Intune has grown more and more in recent years and has received more and more new functions. According to rumors, we can soon expect support for Chrome OS (source: twitter).
This blog is the first blog of a whole blog series. In this blog series, I want to give you a tour of all the features that Microsoft Intune has to offer.
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Use assignment filter for the update ring assignment
With the Assignment Filter a possibility was added to Intune to make assignments more comfortable. This feature was first available for configuration profiles and then for apps. With the service release 2107 Intune has enabled the assignment filters also for update rings.
What are assignment filters and how can you use them for the update ring assignments I will show you in this blog.
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Microsoft Intune Policy Sets: Group and Assign Policies
Many companies have not only a standard service, where not all PCs have the same configuration profiles, standard apps,… have. Specialized services are often needed to meet the needs of different business areas. You can copy the configuration profiles and give them the name of the service so you know which policy belongs to which service or you can use the policy sets to build own services.
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Set the Windows 10 background picture
Centrally controlling the desktop wallpaper is one of those tiny tasks that produces wildly outsized political conversations in any organization — branding, compliance and end users all have opinions, and Intune gives you several ways to enforce it. This post is the short, opinionated guide I wish I’d had: how to deploy a corporate Windows 10 / 11 background image with Microsoft Intune, when to use the Settings Catalog vs. the older ADMX templates, and how to behave nicely on devices where the user has personalised their wallpaper before enrolment. I’ll also cover the gotchas that don’t appear in docs: image hosting, hi-DPI quirks, and how the policy interacts with Personalization → Background.
With Intune it is very easy to change the background picture of your devices. In this blog I explain how you can do this.
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Set Up a Modern Windows Kiosk PC with Intune
In this blog post I want to explain how to set up a modern Kiosk PC. There are many use cases in companies where you don’t want to give the user complete access to Windows. Only one or selected applications should be allowed. Typical use cases would be:
- a device that plays a video in a sales room
- a device that is used for training of an application
- a terminal where someone can give feedback
and many more…
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Setup a Windows Autopilot test lab
Many companies have a cloud-first strategy and are trying to move more and more on prem infrastructure to the cloud. This also includes the device management. With Covid 19, remote working was the new normal and many companies are facing the challenge of how to manage devices secure and comfortable in the home office.
With Intune, Microsoft has a very powerful solution to manage devices via the internet. In my blogs I would like to give insights into cloud device management and provide you helpful scripts and tools.
In this blog post I will start with a basic topic, it’s about how to set up Windows Autopilot Device from scratch. I explain how you can set up a test environment to gain experience with Windows 10 Autopilot or to test different things.
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