Nowadays, the smartphone takes up a lot of room in our personal and professional lives. Being able to receive your work emails directly on a mobile device is becoming popular. Based on latest numbers provided by Brad Anderson from Microsoft, companies are more willing to use mobile device management solution like Microsoft Intune and let users access company data from outside the corporate network. Some companies shared beautiful stories of using Microsoft’s EMS solution, like Pepsi Cola and much more. Companies gain a lot of benefits in letting their employees access corporate data from everywhere, especially emails. There are several mail applications available in the App Store or Google Play Store for Android, but iOS native mail app and Outlook app are by far the most popular for iOS platform. Which one do you prefer? Some users will gain more productivity with iOS native mail app while some users will choose Outlook app for preference … Read More
Updating your Mobile Devices against Meltdown and Spectre with Intune
Everyone has heard of Meltdown, and Spectre vulnerabilities in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data. In case you don’t, the most important thing to remember is to update all devices that mainly have an Intel processor, including mobile devices. If you are using Microsoft Intune to manage mobile devices in your organization, you can configure compliant rules to force the users to update their operating system version. For those who want to keep their old OS version, will lose their access to Office 365 at one point. It’s essential that employees know the importance of updating their devices more often, without being enforced. On the other hand, updating OS means some types of the device won’t be supported anymore. In case your company accepts BYOD, some users will require purchasing a new mobile device. In the end, securing your endpoints is more important. In this post, we will use the … Read More
Understanding Devices Ownership and Wipe option in SCCM 2012
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 enrolled an Windows Phone device in SCCM. In Part 7, we created a compliance setting on a mobile device. In Part 8, we will cover some SCCM 2012 … Read More
Compliance Settings for Mobile Devices 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 enrolled an Android device in SCCM. In Part 6, we enrolled an Windows Phone device in SCCM. In Part 7, we will create a compliance setting on a mobile device. Now that our devices are enrolled, we … 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