Announcing Monitoring Deep dive during Atlanta area Office365 Engineer meet up

I've started a new Meetup in the Atlanta area.  We are going to be starting a group to deep dive into the Azure/O365 stack.

Here is the link to the group for those who want to join.

https://www.meetup.com/Office365-Administrators/members/?sort=join_date&desc=true

Mobile Edge Browser

I have no idea why MS keeps pushing the Edge browser, never mind pushing it on mobile device.  I admit, it is pretty fast and functional on PC.  I can't understand the logic behind why you think making it work on a Mobile Device would be something anyone would be remotely interested in.

From Microsoft

New Microsoft Edge browser settings for Windows 10 and later

This update includes new settings to help control and manage the Microsoft Edge browser on your devices. For a list of these settings, see Device restriction for Windows 10 (and newer).

New apps support with app protection policies

You can now manage the following apps with Intune app protection policies:

• Stream (iOS)
• To DO (Android, iOS)
• PowerApps (Android, iOS)
• Flow (Android, iOS)

Use app protection policies to protect corporate data and control data transfer for these apps, like other Intune policy managed apps. Note: If Flow is not yet visible in the console, you add Flow when you create or edit and app protection policies. To do so, use the + More apps option, and then specify the App ID for Flow in the input field. For Android use com.microsoft.flow, and for iOS use com.microsoft.procsimo.

Intune GitHub

I've been doing more and more work lately with Intune and Powershell.  I have to tell you I am very happy with the current state of the Graph API and the MS GitHub repository.  I am getting a bunch of great stuff out of it.  So easy to use, and some great examples.

If you haven't worked on it yet, you should check it out.

https://github.com/microsoftgraph/powershell-intune-samples

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.

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.