Intune

⚠️ 🇮🇹 To my Italian speaking followers! A few days ago, the winter edition of #POWERCON2023, an online conference organized by the ICTPower.it community, took place. It is certainly correct to say that Microsoft Intune is an MDM, and its main purpose is to manage devices. However, paraphrasing a famous song from the ’80s, “beyond the endpoints, there is more”! Intune is, in fact, the pivotal tool through which to implement and deploy an infinite variety of security settings, in addition to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint configurations.

Intune Organizational Messages are coming to Intune (GA as of 31/5)! Organizing a communication campaign towards users for urgent updates or the release of new configurations that impact the user experience will now be easier. Here are the key licensing and requirements details. 📌 Licenses Microsoft 365 E3 Microsoft 365 E5 Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 with Microsoft Intune Plan 1 Windows 10/11 Enterprise E5 with Microsoft Intune Plan 1 📌 Operating Systems

IT specialists, hello everyone! In this video, we will see the tools that Azure AD and Intune provide us with to manage local group membership. Video You can find the entire video below, or you can continue reading the article. Article After playing with the new Windows LAPS in my previous video, I was reviewing the list of local administrators on my lab machine, and since the machine is registered in Azure AD Join, the Azure AD user who joined it has become an administrator.

On March 22, 2023, the Microsys event “Tech Bits: Modern Endpoint Management” took place, and now the video of the event is available! Together with the legendary Paolo Bodini, we presented the 10 key elements to consider for modern management of corporate and personal devices. Enjoy watching! Riccardo

A few days ago, I came across a very interesting article from the Intune Customer Success Team. The article discusses how to configure BitLocker through the Intune Settings Catalog. This piqued my curiosity because, considering the Settings Catalog, there are now three different ways to deploy BitLocker from Intune. I wanted to understand the advantages of using the Settings Catalog compared to the already available methods. Here’s my experience! ⚠️ As mentioned in the video: the settings you see were done for purely educational and illustrative purposes.

This news was from the end of January, but amidst the chaos of activities and news, I can finally share it now: native management of macOS updates in Intune! Prior to this functionality, managing updates for Macs enrolled in Intune was not very straightforward: scripts, third-party solutions, or user self-service management were required. With this new set of features, it will be possible to natively manage the following types of updates from the Intune interface:

On March 8, 2023, a joint event was held between the Microsoft Intune Italian Users Group and the Microsoft Security Italian Users Group: the video of the sessions is now available. Together with the legendary Michele Sensalari, we talked about certificate-based authentication on Azure AD. Marco Moioli and Davide Salsi, on the other hand, delved into how to use the MAM (Mobile Application Management) features of Intune to provide security in BYOD scenarios, and Davide also demonstrated the new Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile.