In a modern managed workplace environment, ensuring that devices meet minimum operating system (OS) requirements is a critical aspect of security and compliance. By governing the OS versions allowed within your Microsoft Intune environment, you can prevent unsupported or outdated systems from accessing corporate resources. Additionally, having well-configured Windows Update for Business (WUfB) settings can…
Category: Modern Workplace
Speaking at the Workplace Ninja Summit 2024
Next week it’s time again for the annual Workplace Ninja Summit in Lucerne, Switzerland. The summit will start on Monday September 16th till Thursday September 19th. The Workplace Ninja summit is organized by the different Workplace Ninja user groups and consists of many Microsoft community heroes like Mirko Colemberg, Thomas Kurth, Daniel Schädler, Kenny Buntinx,…
Speaking at the Cloud Guardians Unleashed event of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community
Tomorrow (Thursday January 25th) I have the pleasure to speak at the Cloud Guardians Unleashed event organized by the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community. The event, which is hosted by The Collective offices, is held in Zele, Belgium and starts at 17:00 At this event, I will be speaking about Microsoft Entra Id Conditional…
Speaking at the MCT Summit Europe 2024
This year, the annual Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) summit will be held in the Netherlands. The event which takes place between 14-17 January will take place at location “De Loods” in Rijswijk which is near The Hague. The event has a limited capacity of 200 attendees, which guarantees an intimate and engaging experience. At the…
What is this Microsoft SSE solution that everyone is talking about?
On July 11th, Microsoft announced that Azure AD would be renamed to Microsoft Entra ID. Microsoft also announced two new security offerings called Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access as part of a Security Service Edge (SSE) solution. SSE covers the security aspects of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. In…
Configuring even better Windows Update for Business settings for your Microsoft Intune managed Modern Workplace
In March 2021, I published the blogpost “Configuring Windows Update for Business settings for your Microsoft Endpoint Manager managed Modern Workplace“, in that blogpost I described the Windows Update for Business (WUfB) configuration I used, based on the best practices defined by Microsoft defined in their paper titled: “Optimizing Windows 10 Update Adoption“, which is…
Speaking at the European SharePoint Conference (ESPC) about Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access
This week, the European SharePoint Conference (ESPC) is held between November 27 – 30 in Amsterdam the Netherlands. The event which will attract thousands of visitors and will feature more than 140 amazing speakers on a diverse set of topics related to Microsoft 365. At this event, I have the pleasure of speaking about Microsoft…
Microsoft Intune Application Deployment Best Practices
In December 2012, I blogged about best practices for deploying applications using System Center Configuration Manager, and while many of those recommendations are still valid I thought it was worthwhile to update my recommendations for today’s world, deploying applications using Microsoft Intune. My Modern Workplace Application Vision Source: A framework for Windows endpoint management transformation…
Speaking at the Workplace Ninja Summit, September 27-29 2023
Starting on Wednesday September 27, till Friday September 29 the Workplace Ninja Summit which is an in-person event will take place in Baden, Switserland. This event is organized by the diverse Workplace Ninja User Groups throughout the world which provide delegates helping to organize this 3 day event. The event will have more than 100,…
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…
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 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…