Over the last 12 months, I’ve been involved in more than 25 projects with customers that wanted to enable one or more Azure AD Premium and Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) features that’s only available in the Classic Azure Portal. And every time I get the same questions about how to access and configure this feature.During this period Microsoft has already announced the GA for Azure Active Directory, but there are still a few features that you need to configure in the classic Azure Portal. When you navigate to the Azure Active Directory node in the Azure Portal, you’ll find…
When working in the new Microsoft Azure Portal, and the portal feels slow, it hard to identify what’s causing the problem. By using the “Ctrl+Alt+D” command from the Azure Portal, you will get all kind of great information about load times and activated services. Really cool stuff.Check it out by using Ctrl+Alt+D anywhere in the Azure Portal./Enjoy
Until now, the Apple Enrollment section in the Microsoft Azure Portal hasn’t been available, but with the 1703 release of Microsoft Intune this feature is now available.So, if your tenant was created after January 2017 you should have this feature available today. If the option isn’t available (like my test tenant from 1702), simple navigate to the old Silverlight portal and follow the link. That should send you to the right place… But within the next few weeks or so the option should be fully available directly from the Azure Portal.This is a huge and very important step in the…
This week Microsoft will kick off the Tech Summit event in Copenhagen, where you have the opportunity to meet Microsoft, Community Experts and Microsoft Partners. After the last session Thursday, you can join me at the “Ask the Experts Reception” where Speakers, Microsoft and Community experts will help you with all your technical questions, about Microsoft Technologies and the transition to the cloud. One of the great things about the Microsoft Tech Summit is opportunity to meet with colleagues, customers, partners, fellow MVP’s and friends. So, if you want to have a chat, coffee or a beer during the event…
Just like David James announced at the System Center User Group Meeting in Copenhagen last week, Microsoft has now announced the availability of the the next release of System Center Configuration Manager ( Update 1702). This update is available as an in-console update for previously installed sites that run version 1511, 1602, 1606, or 1610 which includes some great new features and product enhancements. For more information, check the “What’s new in version 1702 of System Center Configuration Manager”: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/plan-design/changes/whats-new-in-version-1702. If you want to see a complete list of all the SCCM /ConfigMgr builds/versions, check out this updated blog post: https://www.ronnipedersen.com/2014/07/25/configmgr-2012-versionbuild-numbers/…
Today I got a call from a customer that was working on a Office 365 Project. As part of the Project they wanted to change the Exchange Email Address Policies to filter on the Company Name for each user. Only problem was that some of the users had a blank or misspelled Company name…Luckily, someone invented PowerShell so we started by pulling a list of all Company Names by running this command:Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties Company | Group Company | Select Name,CountThe result was as expected… Too many company names. Misspelled Company Names and users with no company name specified…
This week, I created 2 new Intune tenants. One for a new customer and one for a new lab that I was preparing for our SCUG.DK User Group Meeting next week.Just to get things started, I created a simple compliance policy that check if the device is jailbroken and got the following error (in both tenants):An error occurredAn error occurred whilst saving. Request ID: 6e6d9c36-a213-40be-941a-190aa6ab2defNot much to work with, but I finally figured it out…If you configure the “Jailbroken devices” settings, and leave the “Mobile Thread Level” to the default (Not Configured) it will fail when you try to save…
This year, I’ll be presenting at the Global Azure Bootcamp in Aarhus, Denmark.So if you want to meet with peers and learn more about Azure, this is the event you don’t want to miss.This is a full day event with lots of sessions, Ask-The-Experts and Hands-on labs. And its 100% free!About Global Azure Global BootcampGlobal Azure BootCamp is a free one-day training event, taking place on the 22nd of April 2017 in several venues worldwide, driven by local Microsoft Azure enthusiasts and experts. Our goal is to provide the catalyst for Azure communities to grow around the world, not just…
Last week Microsoft Released a new version of Azure AD Connect, which is now incremented to version 1.1.443.0. This March update includes the following improvement:Fixed issuesAzure AD Connect syncFixed an issue which causes Azure AD Connect wizard to fail if the display name of the Azure AD Connector does not contain the initial onmicrosoft.com domain assigned to the Azure AD tenant. Fixed an issue which causes Azure AD Connect wizard to fail while making connection to SQL database when the password of the Sync Service Account contains special characters such as apostrophe, colon and space. Fixed an issue which causes…
Next month I’ve been invited to deliver a session about “Protecting Cloud Data and Identities using Microsoft EMS” at the Lowlands Unite event in Amsterdam. This a great event where both national and international top speakers will be delivering technical sessions about Enterprise Mobility, Azure and System Center. Check out the full agenda and register here:http://wmug.nl/2017/02/15/11-april-lowlands-unite-netherlands-edition/ Speakers Enterprise Mobility / Enterprise Client Management track Azure / OMS / System Center track Looking forward to see you all in Amsterdam!