Available now: Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 IUR for Microsoft Partners

On By Ronny de JongIn Azure AD, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Intune, Microsoft Intune, Office 365Leave a comment

Today I was happily surprised with the announcement, as of today Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 licenses are available through Internal Use Rights (IUR). This is great news for those who’re a Silver or Gold EMM competency partner. By this Microsoft Partners are enabled to adopt the latest security features in their own organization too. “Practice what you preach”

Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 IUR

One of the main benefits of the Microsoft Partner program are the IUR, which allows you to use Microsoft products in your own organization for free based on your partner competence levels. This applies to traditional software, software keys and Microsoft Online Services.

With IUR Microsoft Partners are able increase productivity, business value, and savings with your internal-use rights (IUR) benefits. The Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 had been available for some quite long time however the E5 was missing here, the more we’ve an imported role as partner to enable our customers with the latest Microsoft technology.

More information regarding Internal Use Rights can be found here.

New features like Azure AD Identity Protection & Azure AD Privileged Identity Management forms important (security) components in a more than ever emerging Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 proposition.

Click here to unlock your IUR benefits today!

ps. special thanks for those who make this possible ;-)

Part 2 – Deploying Microsoft Intune Connector in an Enterprise world: troubleshooting

On By Ronny de JongIn Active Directory Certificate Services, Andriod, Cloud, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Infrastructure, Intune, iOS, Microsoft Intune, Mobile Device Management, Network Device Enrollment Service, Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows Mobile 10, Windows Phone 8.1Leave a comment

In a diptych I’m sharing my experiences, common practices and challenges of implementing Microsoft Intune PFX connector as certificate deployment mechanism in the enterprise.

IntunePFX

In my first blog post I covered the basics of implementing a certificate deployment infrastructure based on Microsoft Intune PFX connector. Explained the differences and considerations whether to choose SCEP or PFX as your certificate deployment solution. And explained the certificate issuing workflow. In this second post I’ll go in more detail of the anatomy of the Intune Certificate Connector, setup. Explaining the renewal and revocation process(flow) works. And lastly I give you some pointers where to start your journey, in case of troubleshooting certificate deployment issues.

Part 1 – Deploying Microsoft Intune Connector in an Enterprise world: common practices

Part 2 – Deploying Microsoft Intune Connector in an Enterprise world: troubleshooting

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One license solution rule them all: Azure AD Group Based Licensing!

On By Ronny de JongIn Azure, Azure Active Directory, Enterprise Mobility, Intune, Microsoft Intune, Office 3651 Comment

A long awaited feature became this week available in the new Azure portal: Azure AD Group Based licensing. With this we have an one-stop-shop to assign licenses on a per user- or group based. azure-ad-group-based-licensing-1

Azure AD Group Based licensing was already available in the classic Azure portal,  however it was limited to  Azure AD Premium, Azure Rights Management, Microsoft Intune and Enterprise Mobility + Security licenses.  For other licenses like Office 365 we were designated to the Office 365 Admin portal or custom (automated) solutions such as PowerShell or Graph API. Continue reading “One license solution rule them all: Azure AD Group Based Licensing!” →

Part 1 – Deploying Microsoft Intune PFX connector in an Enterprise world…common practices

On By Ronny de JongIn Active Directory Certificate Services, Andriod, Configuration Manager, Enterprise Mobility, Intune, iOS, Microsoft Intune, Network Device Enrollment Service, Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol, Uncategorized, Windows 10, Windows 10 MobileLeave a comment

Last year I had the change to implement PFX certificate infrastructure for a large enterprise customer. Occasion of the project was a migration of Citrix XenMobile (XDM) to Microsoft Intune as strategic mobile device- and application management solution.

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Microsoft Intune PFX connector certificate deployment architecture.

In a series of blogposts I’m sharing my experiences, design decisions, common practices and challenges of implementing Microsoft Intune PFX connector as certificate deployment mechanism in an enterprise environment.

Top 3 feature enhancements of Windows 10 Creators Update

On By Ronny de JongIn Azure, Azure Active Directory, Configuration Manager, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Microsoft Intune, Windows 10, Windows 10 MobileLeave a comment

Yesterday I received an update of the Windows Insiders Program which contains some great improvements which I’d to share with you. Hereby some highlights.

Mobile application management

With the Creators Update we’re introducing mobile application management, a new feature that will protect data on personal devices without requiring the device to be enrolled in a Mobile Device Management solution. As employees use their own devices at work more and more, we are providing IT with oversight to apply policies to the applications employees use to be productive. This helps keep corporate data more secure without taking on the added responsibility of managing employees’ personal devices.

 

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Microsoft Teams: How to overcome challenges with Windows Information Protection & Conditional Access

On By Ronny de JongIn Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Cloud, Configuration Manager, Enterprise Data Protection, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Intune, Microsoft Intune, Office 365, Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Information Protection1 Comment

Recently Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams, a new chat-based platform in Office 365. For all mobile platforms (Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile) Microsoft released an native app, including a desktop app for Windows 10 and Mac OS X. The Microsoft Teams apps can be downloaded here. After I installed the Microsoft Teams desktop app on Windows 10 I bumped into the following funny message ‘Yikes! Looks like someone pulled the plug on the internet’.

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Windows Information Protection…notes from the field! #MSIgnite

On By Ronny de JongIn Cloud, Configuration Manager, Intune, Microsoft Intune, Mobile Device Management, Office 365, Security, Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Information Protection5 Comments

Windows Information Protection (WIP), previously known as enterprise data protection (EDP), helps organizations to protect corporate data against potential data leakage.

information-protection-needsThe concept is fairly simple and is actually based on defining two lists:

  • A corporate boundary list, which represents both on-premise & cloud network locations where managed apps can access corporate data;
  • A list of managed (trusted) apps, which are allowed to open, modify & store corporate data within the corporate boundary list.

In this blog we will look at some practical examples which you have to consider for a successful implementation of Windows Information Protection including a top 4 of recommended practices.

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