I think it is really cool that a lot of the commands that I’ve learned from Skype Powershell can be used with teams. With teams being announced this year as being the defector replacement for Skype in the future, this will make the conversation a lot easier for people who already know a lot of these commands. Here is the repo https://github.com/microsoftdocs/office-docs-powershell 
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Intune has come so far
I have to admit, if like me you have been in the mobile device management space, you are fully aware that the old silverlight application was…trash. They have done so much work on it, and integrated so many sign on features it is in my opinion the best option out there. I have set up a few different systems now, and the ability to integrate so easily with the O365 stack is going to make it far away the best management system in the future.
The next question is, do you really need mobile device management? With conditional access, why does it matter if you control the device.
Intune Connector updated
Microsoft Intune Exchange connector (5.0.6175.0) was updated last week. I couldn’t find any updates on what exactly it did. I reached out to ask for some release notes, but I haven’t heard back. We went ahead and upgraded as Microsoft has a pretty good track record lately with these. Also the roll back seemed very straight forward. I’ll let you know if I learn anything else
Android Work
So I’ve had the unique perspective to be able to test Android work both in my lab, and with a customer and the first thing that comes to my mind is “almost”. Android Work comes in two flavors currently. The first is the pre-lollipop (5.0) build, this will support just corporate owned at this time. The easiest way to determine this is to note if your device was shipped with 5.0 or was upgraded to 5.0. The best feature that I see coming from Android Work is the ability to tag applications as either work or personal, this signals to me anyway that Google is making it clear that you are not going to have to wrap applications in the future, which was apples approach to handling the Security problem with application data communication. I strongly dislike the idea of having to have a corporate Gmail account to be able to function with Android work. I think this is going to give companies a reason to hesitate to adopt Android Work as traditionally Google has been a marketing company, and data privacy is not one of their strong points by definition.
Why BlackBerrys fact check is the worst idea ever
So recently BlackBerry has been writing a blog type set of articles that look to “fact” check the other players in the MDM/MAM space. They seem to be getting some great responses from the BlackBerry fanboys of course. The problem with this line of thinking, is that instead of, I don’t know, INNOVATING. They are wasting time and marketing dollars learning and trying to attack the competition. Just like everyone else, I would not be in the position that I am in, working in the Mobile space, if it was not for BlackBerry and RIM. They innovated at a time when no one was thinking mobile, and bringing it to the forefront of technology and discussion. However, this does not give them the right to just blindly attack all other Mobile Management Platforms because their old platform has been placed into the “legacy” column.
No one was given more chances than RIM.
VMWare and Airwatch
Very interesting…With Good buying up boxtone and VMWare buying out Airwatch. The market is really starting to consolidate and work itself out. I wonder what is going to happen to the MDM players that are left.
To improve is t…
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
I recently started a new job at a company, well to be honest I have bitched about for some time. They were in the space that I grew to love, a company that I admired from the dark corners of the internet for years. There comes a time in every man’s life when you have to try to make a change to get to that next level, I loved my old job, and everything they did for me, but it wasn’t for meanymore. Let’s see where this adventure brings me….
The Good lawsuit
Sometimes I rant about how much I hate Airwatch, they hire kids that are 21 or 22 years old, they under pay their employees, they put features in the product just to check something off for the Gartner report. ( I still feel that way sometimes) However, this is a really weak lawsuit. I dislike when technology companies attempt to patten an idea. That is basically what Good is trying to do here.
Nowhere in any of Airwatche’s code will you find anything, that even remotely resembles Good code. Good is suing over the belief that Airwatch (and Mobile Iron for that matter) stole the idea from them (and did it better then they did). This is such a ridiculous concept in technology and all it does is hurt innovation. I don’t care if Good thought up this MDM game 10 years ago, Androids and iPhones didn’t even exist back then. There is no argument for attempting to say that your patten, that applied to some old WinMO devices and Symbian devices, is valid today in the technology diverse systems that we are working in. Just think about this for a second, if this nonsensical patten crap existed 100 years ago, people would of been afraid to invent anything.
SaaS versus On-Premise solutions
So recently I had my galbladder out, so I didn’t have as much time to write, or work for that matter. I came back to my job to see that I had close to 4000 emails. Err… I can assure you that this is a very fun process of going through e-mails…or not. What I wanted to talk about today is what most people in the MDM space have seen happening over the past few years. When setting up MDM/ or any application or service that can go in the cloud, you are going to have to deal with a decision. Do we want it behind our firewall, or do you want it out in the cloud. Do we want it here, or do we want to use a SaaS (Software as a service) or a connector to get to that machine. I am going to attempt to explain the differences here. Now Obviously I assume you are going to have a whole team of network engineers, software engineers and really smart people who have put much more thought into this then you, this is just some basics.
On-Premise
The general concept behind on-premise is that you want to have control of the system. You want to be able to patch it, you want to have it on your hardware, you do not want someone to have control over its SLA’s (service delivery times) In other words You want to control the success of it.
Hosted/SaaS/Cloud
In this situation, you use some sort of VPN or connector to connect your corporate environment out to a cloud solution. In this case, you are saying that you do not want to have to deal with patching this, dealing with its up time, the only part of the equation that you are responsible for is the connection via the VPN or SaaS.
Application management is the future
Lately I have been dealing with more and more requests to do application management. I am starting to think that enterprise mobile IT is starting to become just enterprise mobile application management
Peters ramblings 