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Unknown's avatar Pete 8:07 pm on April 3, 2018
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New InTune User Portal

From Microsoft

User experience update for the Company Portal app for iOS We’ve released a major user experience update to the Company Portal app for iOS. The update features a complete visual redesign that includes a modernized look and feel. We’ve maintained the functionality of the app, but increased its usability and accessibility. You’ll also see: Support for iPhone X. Faster app launch and loading responses, to save users time. Additional progress bars to provide users with the most up-to-date status information. Improvements to the way users upload logs, so if something goes wrong, it’s easier to report.

For awhile now, the Company portal has been lacking behind what you get from MobileIron and airwatch, with the release this week the portal feels more modern. This has been a sorely needed update for awhile now. With a lot of firms moving off of Airwatch and MobileIron when doing Microsoft renewals. We are getting weekly updates from Intune. It surely has come a long way.

Unknown's avatar Pete 9:25 am on January 26, 2018  

Useful O365 Pro Plus

Useful little script that can help you see which license is applied to a pro plus user.

Get-MsolUser  | ? {$_.Licenses.ServiceStatus | ? {$_.ServicePlan.ServiceName -eq “OFFICESUBSCRIPTION” -and $_.ProvisioningStatus -eq “Success”}}

Unknown's avatar Pete 2:17 am on December 26, 2017
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Export to 4k pro plus Version 1711

Cool feature by Microsoft, you can now export to presentations to 4k, this was released in version 1711.  Really cool, hopefully some people at the office who I know have asked about this can get some use out of this feature.

Unknown's avatar Pete 2:22 am on November 21, 2017
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Conditional access

I have been working on conditional access rules this week in my test environment.  I am planning on trying to sell to my senior leadership a plan to move off traditional MDM and towards an Intune/MAM conditional access setup.

Some of the things I really like about conditional access is the ability to control all of the different client access.  I can lock it down to could application type, or domain user etc:

The only real problem I’ve come across is trying to sell this. It is such a huge change, and really requires all or nothing type approach.  We will see what the new year brings.

Unknown's avatar Pete 2:26 am on January 27, 2017
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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.

Unknown's avatar Pete 7:30 pm on April 5, 2016
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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

Unknown's avatar Pete 1:14 pm on March 20, 2015  

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.

Unknown's avatar Pete 2:03 am on September 3, 2014  

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.

Unknown's avatar Pete 9:36 pm on May 6, 2014  

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.