On October 7, 2022 the AppManagEvent will be organized in the Media Plaza, Jaarbeurs Utrecht. The AppManagEvent is an initiative from PDS b.v. in the Netherlands. For 2022, the themes are Deployment, Security, Application Virtualization, MSIX, Win10/11/365 management, Identity Management, IT Infra and much more. At this event, I will be speaking together with my…
Author: Kenneth
Microsoft MVP Setup & Deployment
System Center Consultant
Speaking about Conditional Access at Experts Live Netherlands 2022 on September 30 in Den Bosch
Besides helping organizing Experts Live NL 2022 in my role as speaker manager together with Erik Loef, I’m also happy to announce that I will be speaking at this amazing event as well. My session will be about: Azure AD Conditional Access Demystified, a topic on which I already presented before and written some extensive…
Speaking about Conditional Access at the Workplace Ninja Summit 2022 on September 12th in Luzern Switzerland
After speaking virtually on the Workplace Ninja Summit 2020 and Workplace Ninja Summit 2021, I’m really proud to announce that I will also speak the Workplace Ninja Summit 2021, and this time it’s an in-person event. The Workplace Ninja Summit 2022, is an in-person event held from September 12th till September 14 in Luzern Switzerland….
Speaking about Mobile Application Management at the Techorama Belgium 2022 event
On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, I will be speaking together with Peter Daalmans at the Techorama Belgium event. Techorama 2022 will be an in-person conference taking place in Antwerp 24-25 (pre-con on May 23) in Kinepolis Antwerp. Techorama will offer its usual combination of great speakers, an unforgettable conference experience and 3 days of deep-dive…
Speaking about implementing Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations and Mobile Application Management at the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2022 event
On Friday, May 6th 2022, I will be speaking at the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2022 event. Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon is a free, online, 60-hour event happening May 4-6, 2022. Featuring great speakers from around the globe. This event is free for all wanting to attend. The event starts at 9:00 am on Wednesday…
Apple Business Manager device import options for later use within Microsoft Endpoint Manager
This blogpost is a continuation of two earlier blogposts about integrating Apple Business Manager with Azure Active Directory and Apple Business Manager. The first blogpost written was about Setting up Apple Business Manager for use with Azure Active Directory and covered the steps to request access to Apple Business Manager, and how to setup and…
Connecting Microsoft Endpoint Manager to Apple Business Manager
This article will continue where we finished in the article I wrote about setting up Apple Business Manager for use with Azure Active Directory. In that article we went through the process of requesting access to Apple Business Manager (ABM), and once access is granted how we can authenticate to ABM using our Azure AD…
Setting up Apple Business Manager for use with Azure Active Directory
Apple Business Manager is a service provided by Apple which helps to deploy Apple devices and apps in your organization. By leveraging Apple Business Manager (ABM) you can automatically enroll devices in Microsoft Endpoint Manager by using Automated Device Enrollment (ADE). You could say it provides similar functionality as to what Windows Autopilot provides for…
Speaking about Conditional Access at the M365 Chicago Virtual Event on January 14th, 2022
On Friday, January 14, 2022 I will be speaking at the M365 Chicago Virtual event. You can attend the event for free, by signing up via the Eventbrite link on the website of M365 Chicago. There are more than 100 session during the day given by great speakers. What is M365Chicago? It is where Microsoft…
Speaking at the December 2021 – MC2MC Evening event about Designing and building Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations
On Thursday, December 16, the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community (MC2MC) is organizing its December Evening event. The MC2MC team consists of Tim de Keukelaere, Wim Matthyssen, Tim Hermie, Ken Goossens, Jasper Bernaers, Peter de Tender, Peter Linders and Micha Wets, all well respected community organizers from Belgium. The event, which will be virtual…
Gradual rollout options for upgrading to Windows 11 are now available in Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Microsoft has made available service release 2111 for Microsoft Endpoint Manager, this release contains a lot of updates which are described on the What’s new page, see: Week of November 15, 2021 (Service release 2111). Some of the updates are related to who we can gradually rollout to Windows 11, which is reflected in the…
Microsoft Endpoint Manager and the issue of the tattooing Block write access to removable data-drives not protected by BitLocker setting
Today I experienced an issue which I want to share on my blog, it is related to a setting related to BitLocker which gets tattooed meaning that it doesn’t get removed from the device if you modify the setting afterwards. Let me explain the scenario first. For a customer who is using both the Security…
Conditional Access announcements from Ignite November 2021 reviewed
During the Microsoft Ignite conference in November 2021 Microsoft made several announcements related to Azure AD conditional access. You can read those announcements in the following article: “Identity at Ignite: Strengthen resilience with identity innovations in Azure AD“. And this morning Thomas Naunheim, tweeted that he saw the announced functionality appear within his tenant. Time…
My appearance in the Cloud Conversations podcast #32
On Saturday, October 30th I was a guest in the Cloud Conversations podcast which is hosted by Kat Greenan, Peter Rising and Ru Cambell. The Cloud Conversations podcast was already in my list of Podcasts to follow and I listen to it regularly. It was therefore a hug honor to be invited over to speak…
Speaking at the HTMD Conference 2021 about Designing and building Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations
On Saturday, November 20, the How to Manage Devices Community Group India, which is led by Microsoft MVP enterprise mobility Anoop C Nair organizes it’s How to Manage devices event. The HTMD Conference is all about sharing knowledge on device management and related topics. The sessions from industry experts on the following topics help you…