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December 15, 2022December 15, 2022

December 2022 update of the conditional access demystified whitepaper and workflow cheat sheet.

I’m proud to announce the December 2022 update of my Conditional Access demystified whitepaper. With this release, we have reached the fifth iteration of the whitepaper and accompanying files. I released the first version in in August 2019 after writing several blogposts on the subject. In May last year I released the second version containing…

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October 3, 2022October 3, 2022

Speaking about Mobile Application Management at the AppManagEvent 2022 on October 7 in Utrecht

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…

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May 18, 2022May 18, 2022

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…

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February 22, 2022February 22, 2022

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…

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February 15, 2022April 10, 2022

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…

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February 8, 2022February 8, 2022

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…

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December 14, 2021December 14, 2021

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…

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November 18, 2021November 19, 2021

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…

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November 16, 2021November 16, 2021

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…

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November 16, 2021November 16, 2021

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…

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October 29, 2021October 29, 2021

Announcing #WPNinjasNL Meetup #1, Thursday November 4th – Microsoft Ignite edition

For next week, Thursday November 4th, we are proud to announce that we are hosting our first on-premised event again. The event will be held in the Hollywoud Cinema in Almkerk the Netherlands, kindly hosted by our sponsor Proxsys. The topics on the event will all be about Microsoft Ignite, which is Microsoft’s annual gathering…

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October 29, 2021October 29, 2021

Speaking at the AppManagEvent 2021 about Designing and building Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations

On Friday, November 12th Professional Development Services is organizing its annual event AppManagEvent again. This in-person full day event which will take place at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands. During the event, there will be around 23 session by 18 different speakers on topics around Deployment, Security, Application Virtualization, MSIX, Win10/11/365 management, Identity Management,…

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October 4, 2021October 4, 2021

With Windows Update for Business configured, will my devices automagically start updating to Windows 11?

Tomorrow, on October 5th Microsoft will make Windows 11 Generally Available. Many of my customers already asked if this will have any impact on their existing deployment rings. Here is what I know so far. Microsoft released the following documentation: Plan for Windows 11 and Prepare for Windows 11. On the page they mention the…

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July 26, 2021July 26, 2021

Speaking at the Workplace Ninja Virtual Edition 2021 about Designing and building Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations

From Tuesday August 31 till Thursday September 2, the 2nd edition of the Workplace Ninja Virtual Edition will take place. The event will be hosted via Microsoft Teams on the msftcommunity platform and there will be 80+ sessions in total covering different topics related to management of endpoints with configuration manager and Intune, as well…

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June 3, 2021June 3, 2021

Received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in Enterprise Mobility

On Thursday June 1st 2021, I received an email from Microsoft telling me that I received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. My award is given for the category Enterprise Mobility, which covers most of the topics part of the Microsoft 365 line of products. It’s a real honor to be recognized by Microsoft…

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