Updated 2018-03-19 One of Microsoft Intune feature is to deploy useful mobile applications that your users need to get their job done. We can think of the Office suite such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint and One Note. This blog post will show how to deploy Microsoft Word on managed iOS devices with Microsoft Intune and SCCM. This is the 9th post of the Mobile Device Management with Intune and SCCM 2012 blog series. Microsoft Word for iOS devices requires Mobile Application Management (MAM) policies in Microsoft Intune. Since it’s a pre-requisites for Microsoft Word, we will configure a MAM policy in this post at step 2. MAM policies give the ability to protect company data without affecting personal data. You can also apply restrictions like Save As, Clipboard and many more. You can read more about MAM on Technet. Step 1 | Create the Application in SCCM Creating a mobile … Read More
Send Sync Request to Intune Mobile Devices from SCCM 1610 Console
This month, SCCM 1610 was released with a bunch of new features, including exiting Intune features. One of these Intune feature is to send sync request directly from the SCCM console. It’s a new remote actions that Intune administrators will use daily. For example, you can send sync request to a mobile device that is having deployment or client health issue. In fact, each mobile devices managed by Intune need to communicate with Intune to get the latest policy and compliance state. Normally, the Intune client synchronizes every 6 hours for iOS and 8 hours for Android. Additionally, there’s a scan every 15 minutes in the first 6 hours of enrollment. The mobile device can be synchronized as well from the Company Portal application. Take note that Send Sync Request is unavailable for the moment in Intune standalone. Maybe one day! SCCM 1610 Send Sync Request Open the SCCM Console, navigate to … Read More
Intune Client | Error User License Type Invalid
The starting point of all mobile management project is enrolling devices. Without enrollment, you can’t manage any devices. When running in hybrid mode, the enrollment process is different than running Microsoft Intune in standalone mode. The SCCM Service Connection Point role keeps connectivity between both end (SCCM on-premise and the Cloud). Both environments must be synchronized, otherwise, you have chance of getting Intune error User License Type Invalid during Intune enrollment on your mobile devices. This post will explains how to resolve this issue. Intune Error User License Type Invalid This is the error message shown just before the enrollment process when you click Enroll : If you take a look, at the Company Portal log from the mobile device, you will see : <ErrorType>UserLicense</ErrorType><Message>Invalid User License</Message> ** How to see Company Portal log? Please read this Technet post ** Cloud User Sync During the configuration of the Intune subscription in your SCCM, you need to create and configure a … Read More
How to install Microsoft Intune Client for MAC OSX
Did you ever wanted to install the Microsoft Intune client on MAC OSX? Microsoft Intune standalone supports Apple operating systems since November 2015. SCCM 1602 is required to support the Microsoft Intune client with the SCCM connector (hybrid environment). The Intune client is a lightweight version of the SCCM client. You can deploy some policies, SCEP certificates, VPN and WiFi profiles. There is also a hardware inventory scan on the devices. In a previous post, we explained how to set up a compliance policy for MAC OSX, now that our client is ready to receive the compliance policy, we will install the Microsoft Intune client on Mac OS X devices. Install the Intune Client Mac There is still no way to automatically install the client. Connect on the MAC OSX devices that you want to install Microsoft Intune client Open Safari and go to portal.manage.microsoft.com Click on This device is either not enrolled … Read More
How to enroll Windows Phone 8.1 devices with SCCM
Download and own all parts of the blog series in a single PDF file. Use our products page or use the download button below. This blog post won’t be updated, only the document will be. [purchase_link id=”3885″ style=”button” color=”gray” text=”Add to Cart | Mobile Device Management guide” price=”yes”] In Part 1 of this series, we prepared the Intune environment for mobile device management. We also make sure we got the Intune subscription account. In Part 2, we configured Active Directory and create users in Intune. In Part 3, we prepared our Configuration Manager server in order to link it to Intune using the SCCM connector. In Part 4, we enrolled an Apple iOS devices in SCCM. In Part 5, we enrolled an Android device in SCCM. In Part 6, we will enroll a Windows Phone 8.1 in SCCM. This post assume that you’ve done the necessary in your infrastructure to support Windows Phone enrollment. See previous posts … Read More
How to enroll an Android Device in SCCM
Download and own all parts of the blog series in a single PDF file. Use our products page or use the download button below. This blog post won’t be updated, only the document will be. [purchase_link id=”3885″ style=”button” color=”gray” text=”Add to Cart | Mobile Device Management guide” price=”yes”] In Part 1 of this series, we prepared the Intune environment for mobile device management. We also make sure we got the Intune subscription account. In Part 2, we configured Active Directory and create users in Intune. In Part 3, we prepared our Configuration Manager server in order to link it to Intune using the SCCM connector. In Part 4, we enrolled an Apple iOS devices in SCCM. In Part 5, we will enroll an Android device. Android devices has a big market share along mobile devices. If your company has a BYOD approach and is pushing to manage all platforms, you will certainly need to enroll Android … Read More
How to enroll an iOS device in SCCM
Download and own all parts of the blog series in a single PDF file. Use our products page or use the download button below. This blog post won’t be updated, only the document will be. [purchase_link id=”3885″ style=”button” color=”gray” text=”Add to Cart | Mobile Device Management guide” price=”yes”] In Part 1 of this series, we prepared the Intune environment for mobile device management. We also make sure we got the Intune subscription account. In Part 2, we configured Active Directory and create users in Intune. In Part 3, we prepared our Configuration Manager server in order to link it to Intune using the SCCM connector. In Part 4, we will begin device enrollment starting with Apple iOS devices. Here’s the main steps to enroll an iOS device : You need an Apple certificate to establish communication between Apple and Intune SCCM must be enabled for iOS enrollment Your iOS devices need to download … Read More
Mobile Device Management with Intune and SCCM 2012
Managing Mobile devices is a challenge that all SCCM admins will face in the near future. With the rise of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), businesses need to have control over every asset used by their employees. With the various mobile operating systems (iOS, Windows Phone, Windows RT, Android), this task can be overwhelming but it’s not as complicated than it looks. You just need to understand the main concepts and apply the right method to each operating systems. Mobile Device Management has been introduced with SCCM 2012 SP1 and many enhancements have been made with the R2 release. Microsoft has also released new features in the past weeks which make the solution even better. It’s simply the most complete solution if you manage your devices through SCCM 2012 and have to manage mobile devices. We’ve compiled the full list of features in the Features List section of this post. A Microsoft … Read More