Measuring your managed systems against a baseline has been around for a while, in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager(MECM)/ConfigMgr we can already use one or more Configuration Items combined in a Configuration Baseline to measure and remediate clients against an imported or self created baseline. You can measure for example if the Windows Firewall is enabled…
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Modern Workplace Management key takeaways from the Microsoft Ignite March 2021 announcements
This week, during the virtual Ignite event Microsoft made several announcements related to the Modern Workplace. The event started yesterday (March 2nd) at 17:00 hours in my time zone (Amsterdam) with a keynote held by Microsoft CEO: Satya Nadella. The keynote was related to Microsoft’s vision for the future of Mixed Reality running on top…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 14 on November 10, 2020 featuring Ronni Pedersen
For Tuesday, November 10 we are proud to announce that Ronni Pedersen, Cloud Architect at APENTO will host a session about: “How to get success with Windows Autopilot when everyone is working from home” Session abstract: Want to learn how you can get success with Windows Autopilot when everyone is working from home? Join Ronni…
Announcing the #WMUG_NL Tuesday Webinars
Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, we were forced to postpone our in- person meetings for our Windows Management User Group Netherlands community. Since this crisis is probably going to take a while we have decided to start a new initiative, called #WMUG_NL Tuesdays.
Blocking access to Cloud apps by integrating Microsoft Cloud App Security with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection
Microsoft has quietly introduced the option to automatically block connections to unsanctioned cloud apps from the Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) console. This is accomplished by integrating MCAS with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP). Based on the information available in Cloud App Security, the app’s domains are used to create domain indicators in the Microsoft Defender…
Did you already enable DKIM and DMARC for your Office 365 domains?
When you host your email on the Exchange Online (EXO) platform part of Office365 you can implement several security measures to make sure that email send from your domain gets delivered to the mailbox of the recipient. The most known solution for this is by implementing a Sender Policy Framework (SPF) DNS record. By creating…
What are Intune Policy Sets?
Starting with the Intune release from October 14th 2019, Microsoft made available a new functionality called “Policy Sets”. Even though there a now (at time of writing this article) still in preview, they are a very welcome addition to the Intune options available. Added November 29th: Please make sure to also read about Guided scenario’s…
Litetouch deployment failed, Return Code = -2147467259 0x80004005 when installing Surface Pro 6 devices using MDT
TL;DR; – When reinstalling Windows on a Surface Pro 6 and it fails, make sure that you “temporarely” disable the ” Enable boot configuration lock” option and try again. At one of my customers we are using MDT to install Surface Pro 6 devices in order to make sure that the latest version of Windows…
Windows Management User Group Netherlands: Meeting on the 17th of September
On Tuesday evening the 17th of September the Windows Management User Group Netherlands organizes its 3rd meeting. The announcement, which is in Dutch can be found here. The subject of the evening is virtualization, and its hosted by PQR and we have three fantastic speakers for this evening, session summaries will be communicated soon: Program:…