In this blog post I explain how to run AI models offline on a Mac with Microsoft Foundry Local — completely offline, on your own hardware. No Azure subscription, no API key, no internet connection. Everything runs on your own device.
I made a short video that walks through the whole thing. If you prefer watching over reading, here it is:
The rest of this post is the written version, so you can copy the commands and follow along.
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When application management works smoothly, everyone benefits: IT teams operate with fewer tickets, security stays tight, and employees remain productive. Yet for many organizations, keeping every device up to date, simplifying deployments for AVD/Citrix images, managing SSO across the environment, and supporting macOS without costly third-party solutions can feel overwhelming. Add in the need to handle custom, complex applications—where 80% of the workload often goes into just 20% of those installs—and application management becomes even more challenging. This is exactly where Application Workspace by Recast Software changes the game for modern IT teams.
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As an Intune MVP, I frequently need to test various setups on a dedicated test machine. The easiest way to do this is by building an Autopilot lab on MacOS using virtual machines (VMs). However, running a Windows VM on a MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon (M3) can be a bit tricky. In this blog post, I’ll guide you through the steps to successfully run a Windows VM on macOS with Apple Silicon.
This post is the Complete Guide to Mac management with Microsoft Intune I wish existed when I started managing macOS endpoints in a Microsoft-first environment. From enrollment via Apple Business Manager to compliance, configuration profiles, and security policies — the workflows here are the patterns I deploy in real tenants.
Managing a fleet of devices in today’s workplace isn’t just about Windows management anymore — Mac devices are becoming increasingly common. As more employees choose Macs for their performance, design, and reliability, you also have to deal with the right ways to manage and secure them. With Microsoft Intune, you have a powerful platform to manage macOS devices alongside other platforms. This post shows you how Mac management with Microsoft Intune works and explains why integrating Macs into your corporate infrastructure is a smart move.
Remote working is the new normal and this is exactly what has contributed to the spread of Intune. This Intune Quick Start Guide is here to help, because Intune gets a large number of new users/devices every day and is also being developed at a rapid pace. Intune is an extremely good platform to manage devices regardless of their location and offers the great advantage that you no longer have to worry about an infrastructure as with Config Manager. However, this growth brings the challenge that administrators have to get used to a new platform.
In my blog you will find many deep dives or useful tools and solutions how to get the full power out of Intune. In this blog post I want to go back to the beginning. This Intune Quick Start Guide gives you a general overview of what Intune is and provides you with a free first-steps walkthrough.
Glad to publish today my second installment of my Intune Whats new series, and this edition is all about Whats new in 2210. This month was Ignite and what you need to know is that during this time very many people are busy internally at Microsoft because of Ignite. Nevertheless, the changes in this Whats new in 2210 service release are very noteworthy. In this blog I will show you the most important news related to Workplace management, and you can also revisit my earlier overview in Whats new in 2209.
Like every year the Ignite 2022 of Microsoft takes place. This is an event where Microsoft presents news in their products but also general strategic topics on which they will work within the next few months. Ignite 2022 was a hybrid event both as live stream and on site in Seattle. In this blog I would like to briefly summarize what was presented at Ignite 2022 in relation to Mem (whether this name is still the right one?). You can find more recaps on my blog, and a detailed summary under this link.
Encrypting the disk of a workspace is one of the basic settings that every managed device should have. Everyone who manages Windows PCs knows BitLocker. The solution that is integrated in macOS to encrypt disks is called FileVault. In this blog I want to explain you how to Activate Mac FileVault using Intune, step by step, so that every Mac in your fleet is encrypted automatically. By the end you will know exactly how to Activate Mac FileVault using Intune and how to retrieve the recovery key when you need it.
This post is a practical guide to using MacOS custom attributes in Intune. MacOS custom attributes in Intune let you collect arbitrary signals from your Macs — anything a shell script can return — and surface them as device properties for compliance, dynamic groups and reporting.
Microsoft Intune’s macOS custom attributes are one of the most underrated features in the platform — a thin slice of “managed Jamf Extension Attributes” that lets you collect arbitrary signals from your Macs (anything you can return from a shell script: hardware identifiers, configuration state, installed apps, security posture) and surface them as device properties for compliance, dynamic groups and reporting. This post walks through the end-to-end workflow: how to write a robust custom-attribute shell script, deploy it via Intune, and consume the result in compliance policies and Microsoft Graph queries.
Intune already has a basic inventory of MacOS devices. On the one hand, there is a hardware inventory in which you have everything from the serial number to the free memory, but also os information. In addition, you can see in the discovered apps which applications are installed on the device. But if you want to collect more information about the devices, Intune offers a really cool feature here. The feature I am talking about is called custom attribute. This is basically a shell script that is executed on the devices and the return value is stored as a custom attribute.
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Mac management in Microsoft Intune has become a key topic for many IT teams, and in this guide I will walk you through it step by step. I have already described in one of my first blogs how you can set up an Intune development environment and enroll Windows devices via Autopilot and manage them. Apart from Windows, you can also manage iOS, Android and MacOS very well with Intune. Apple offers a good interface (MDM Protocol) to manage MacOS devices, unfortunately not all options are supported with Intune. Also in the WWDC22 there was some great new features introduced.
MacOS support was added to Intune back in 2015. At that time, Mac management in Microsoft Intune was still very limited – something that has changed a lot in the meantime. The number of companies using Mac devices is growing more and more, as is the general market share of macOS compared to Windows. This was around 3% in 2009 and has risen to 15% today (2022). Of course, Windows is still in front, but a clear trend can be seen, and that is exactly why Mac management in Microsoft Intune matters more every year.
There are a lot of worthy blogs that deal with the topic of Mac management in Microsoft Intune:
Just to name a few. Of course there are some great other blogs.
In this blog I want to give you a step by step guide on how to enroll a macOS device in Intune. This is the foundation of Mac management in Microsoft Intune, and there will be more blogs in the future on the topic of managing macOS with Intune.
