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Food for thought – Bring Your Own Disaster.

Today a slightly different blog post. It’s a common discussion that I face almost daily. Clients that embrace the “anywhere, anytime, any device” approach, and want to take control over their data. And that’s not as easy as it sounds. The problem One of the most common challenges that organizations face when embracing the modern workplace, is the one with Bring Your Own Devices. Personal devices. Devices in all flavors and sizes. Devices from different hardware vendors, with different operating… 

Set additional clocks to Windows 10 using Intune

When you work for an international company, or you have to deliver support in other timezones, you might find yourself Googling for time in different timezones from time to time. At least I did. Then I start looking for a way to make this easier and I was thinking to use BGInfo do reflect the time on my background. When struggling with this for 2 hours, I accidentally stumbled upon this setting, where you can display 2 additional clocks: I… 

Install Windows Package Manager (winget) using Intune

Microsoft released a preview of the Windows Package Manager. I’m not going into detail about the product itself, because there are a lot of (better) alternatives for this already in the market. Today, we focus on how to get this tool installed on your endpoints, so you can use it for your software distribution. In this approach I use the APPX package. Normally I would use the Business Store for this, that version does not (yet) contain the winget feature.… 

Manage Teams custom backgrounds using Intune

Update! I got some feedback on this blog. Seems that if your users are not members of the local administrator group, install will faill with error: 0x80070001. I’ve updated the article to solve this problem. I replaced the cmd files for Powershell scripts and did some minor changes to the detection and uninstall scripts. This should now work for users without admin permissions. Microsoft introduced background effects in Teams. All of a sudden you see people having their custom backgrounds.… 

Get started with web content filtering in MDATP

Update 7-7-2020: Microsoft anounced that you no longer need a Cyren subscription. Web content filtering will be offered as part of Microsoft Defender ATP without any additional partner licensing. Now you get the benefits of web content filtering without the need for additional agents, hardware, and costs.   From the article: If you joined in on the public preview, you might be in one of the following scenarios:  If your 60-day trial for the partner license has already expired, all your policies are now active and protecting your enterprise.   If you have an active 60-day trial for a partner license, all your policies will… 

Windows Update for Business. “Just” a free cloud service.

Since the introduction of the “Modern Workspace,” a lot is changed when we talk about updates. Let’s face it: staying current with Windows 10 is hard. But not as hard as, for example, maintaining Windows 7. Because back then we didn’t have Windows Update for Business. Luckily for you, now we have! Let’s dive in. What is Windows Update for Business? There are many different ways to keep your devices up to date. In Enterprises, the most common tools out…