Device Compliance with Configuration Baselines, Configuration Manager version 1910 and Microsoft Intune

Introduction

This must be one of my favorite features of Configuration Manager version 1910: Include custom configuration baselines as part of compliance policy assessment.

For a detailed description of the feature, I suggest you read the What’s new article.

In short, this enables us to assess device compliance based on almost anything and really extends the possibilities.

I will walk through the setup required and give you a quick and easy example on how to use this new awesome feature in a co-management scenario.

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Updating MEMCM (Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager) to version 1910 on Christmas Eve

Introduction

Configuration Manager 1910 went globally available this friday, december 20, so I wanted to stay true to tradition and walk through the upgrade process based on my own environment.

This is usually something I do the very moment it’s possible to opt-in using the early update ring, but this time around the hours usually spent on blogging, are spent on my new born (9 weeks today). 🙂

As usual, this is based on a production environment. This might seem ballsy to do during the holiday season, but I’m confident I will be fine. Also, backup ftw, right? 😀 (NOTE: This particular environment have survived upgrades since SCCM 2012 without ever breaking)

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Windows 10 Toast Notification Script Update: Retrieve task sequence deadline dynamically from WMI

Introduction

Another neat update to the Windows 10 Toast Notification Script is a reality. Now being on version 1.4.4.

The new version brings a new deadline option, that when enabled, will look in WMI for the specified task sequence package id, and retrieve the deadline of the required deployment dynamically.

This time a thank you goes out to @kevmjohnston for contributing with idea and bits of code. 🙂

What’s new and delicious are mentioned in details below.

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Script Update: Automatically remind users to update iOS with e-mails and custom notifications using Microsoft Intune Powershell SDK

Introduction

If you already use or intend to use my script, which reminds users to update iOS with e-mails and custom notification, you will want to use the updated script. 🙂

I obviously put the script to use in production, and quickly realized that the script also picks up obsolete devices. This is not ideal, as you might end up in a situation where a user is reminded by e-mail, to update a device which is obsolete and no longer in use.

So the script has been updated to cater for this situation, and now only picks up devices which has been syncing with Microsoft Intune within the last 2 days.

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Automatically remind users to update iOS with e-mails and custom notifications using Microsoft Intune Powershell SDK

Introduction

**Minor update**: https://www.imab.dk/script-update-automatically-remind-users-to-update-ios-with-e-mails-and-custom-notifications-using-microsoft-intune-powershell-sdk/

Long title! It could have been even longer, but I struggled to squeeze in that the e-mail also is sent over Office 365 and the entire deliciousness is running on a schedule with Azure Automation. 🙂

The story here is, that iOS is getting updates quite frequently, and a lot of enterprises (including myself), are managing those iOS devices as private BYOD devices enrolled through the Company Portal. As of such, keeping the devices up to date is the end-user’s responsibility and something that’s often forgotten and neglected.

So what if we could send those devices and users a kind reminder automatically, both as a custom notification directly on the device, but also as an e-mail? Microsoft Intune Powershell SDK to the rescue!

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Co-management with ConfigMgr and Intune and a little something about Microsoft Defender antimalware policies

Introduction

Originally when the Endpoint Protection workload for co-management was introduced with Configuration Manager 1802, this was done without antimalware policies.

That essentially meant that antimalware policies was still being managed solely by Configuration Manager, while a feature like Exploit Guard was managed by Intune.

Now, this has since changed (at the time of writing, I’m not sure when they snug in the addition, but that’s not related to the post anyway) and the workload now includes antimalware policies enabling us to manage all aspects of Microsoft Defender with Microsoft Intune.

So what does that mean, and are there anything specifically you need to be aware of? I believe there is. 🙂

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Deploy RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) for Windows 10 v1909 using ConfigMgr and Powershell

Introduction

Windows 10 v1909 was released to MSDN users last week, and true to tradition, I’m updating my Powershell script, enabling you to install RSAT for Windows 10 1909 automatically and unattended.

I received quite some feedback on my 1903 script, and thanks to that I made some improvements to the 1909 edition. That includes:

  • Added test for pending reboots. If reboot is pending, RSAT features might not install successfully
  • Added test for configuration of WSUS by Group Policy
    • If WSUS is configured by Group Policy, history shows that additional settings might be needed for some environments

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A brief first look on Microsoft Defender ATP Tamper Protection

Introduction

Late last night my time, Tamper Protection in the Microsoft Defender stack went Generally Available.

In short and as the name implies, this is a feature which essentially locks Microsoft Defender and prevents your security settings from being tampered with, including changes made by an administrator.

From a security perspective, this is a great and welcomed addition – let’s take a closer look. 🙂

PS. I did find some oddities in some of the behavior when trying to disable Microsoft Defender through Group Policy. More on that in the end of the post.

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Remind users to enroll into Windows Hello for Business using Toast Notifications and ConfigMgr

Introduction

I recently did a tweet about doing a toast notification to lure end-users into enrolling their device with Windows Hello for Business voluntarily.

Prior to doing the tweet, I found my self wrestling with Powershell and a way to locate devices not enrolled into WHfB yet. Seeing I only wanted to nag people not enrolled yet, this was a requirement for the entire process.

So this post is a little something on both the actual toast notification, but also on how I ended up locating devices not enrolled into WHfB yet using a Compliance Baseline in ConfigMgr.

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Windows 10 Toast Notification Script Update: Check for Active Directory Password Expiration

Introduction

My Windows 10 Toast Notification Script has received another update, now being on version 1.4. What’s new and delicious are mentioned in details below.

Note: I know that expiring passwords are not ideal, but reality is that many still have them configured like so while trying to find their way out with Windows Hello for Business, Password-Less etc.

The toast notification might even serve as a good entry point into enrolling into WhFB when one are ready to do so. I’ll make an example of such in the future 🙂

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