Author Archives: ncbrady

Improvements to BitLocker support via cloud management gateway

Posted on February 23, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft released Technical Preview 2102 and it’s got a bunch of new updates as usual, including some updates for BitLocker Management via the cloud management gateway. To get some ideas about how BitLocker Management via a CMG works please … Continue reading →

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Cloud attach – Endpoint Managers silver lining – part 4 Enabling co-management

Posted on February 20, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction This is part 4 in a series of guides about cloud attach in Microsoft Endpoint Manager, with the aim of getting you up and running with all things cloud attach. This part will focus on enabling co-management. This series … Continue reading →

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Adding devices or users to an Azure AD group after Windows Autopilot is complete but only when the device is marked as Compliant

Posted on February 19, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction I’ve touched on this subject before where I used http triggers to add devices or users to an Azure AD group after Windows Autopilot was completed, however that solution did not check the compliance of the device prior to … Continue reading →

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Fixing One or more Azure AD app secrets used by Cloud Services will expire soon

Posted on February 12, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction My Technical Preview lab (TP2101) had a message in the ConfigMgr console informing me that: “One or more Azure AD app secrets used by Cloud Services will expire soon. Renew to avoid service disruption.” After some quick research I … Continue reading →

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Required application deployments visible in Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center

Posted on February 12, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft recently released Technical Preview 2101, it’s the first technical preview this year and it’s packed with new features. One of those new features is related to Tenant Attach and we’ll take a look at that feature here. If … Continue reading →

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Enrolling a Mac Book Pro (M1) into Jamf Pro

Posted on February 2, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction This is a short post to describe what I had to do to manually enroll a brand new Apple Mac Book Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) into Jamf. This is for non-DEP M1 Macs.It involved some manual steps and I’m … Continue reading →

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Technical Preview 2101 – Feature update in a task sequence

Posted on January 30, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft just released Technical Preview 2101, it’s the first technical preview this year and it’s packed with new features. Let’s take a look at one of those new features and it is the ability to update Windows using feature … Continue reading →

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Cloud attach – Endpoint Managers silver lining – part 3 Creating a Cloud Management Gateway

Posted on January 30, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction This is part 3 in a series of guides about cloud attach in Microsoft Endpoint Manager, with the aim of getting you up and running with all things cloud attach. This part will focus on creating a Cloud Management … Continue reading →

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Cloud attach – Endpoint Managers silver lining – part 2

Posted on January 25, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction This is part 2 in a series of guides about cloud attach in Microsoft Endpoint Manager, with the aim of getting you up and running with all things cloud attach. This part will focus on preparing your environment for … Continue reading →

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Windows Autopilot: Gathering logs and sending an email when resetting windows

Posted on January 19, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction I’ve posted two blog posts about this already, but to explain it thoroughly I’ve created a video to explain how to test and use this ability. Here are the blog posts: Gathering logs and sending an email when resetting … Continue reading →

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Gathering logs and sending an email when you need to reset Windows Autopilot – part 2

Posted on January 15, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction In a previous blog post I explained how you could use the SendGrid resource in Azure to send emails, and with a PowerShell script create an Intune app to give end users additional options when resetting their Windows Autopilot … Continue reading →

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Windows Hello For Business facial recognition not working ? try this

Posted on January 7, 2021 by ncbrady

Introduction As part of Windows Autopilot provisioning and after the Windows Account Setup phase, if you’ve configured the option, the end user will be prompted to enable Windows Hello For Business using bio metric options such as facial recognition or … Continue reading →

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Gathering logs and sending an email when you need to reset Windows Autopilot

Posted on December 29, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Windows Autopilot deployment profiles allow you to decide if the user is a local administrator or a standard user. With all the security concerns today, choosing an User account type of Standard as shown below is a logical choice, … Continue reading →

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Cloud attach – Endpoint Managers silver lining – part 1

Posted on December 23, 2020 by ncbrady

Microsoft released Windows Intune back in March 2011, this was their launch pad to get users into the cloud. This later evolved into Microsoft Intune and is now known as Microsoft Endpoint Manager. This cloud journey encompassed several new technologies … Continue reading →

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Adding devices to an Azure AD group after Windows Autopilot is complete – part 2

Posted on December 19, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction In part 1 you learned how to use Azure functions and a http trigger to add a device to an Azure Ad security group. In this part you’ll see how it all fits together on the client side after … Continue reading →

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