Tag: Graph API

Troubleshooting: Endpoint Configuration Manager Device Collection Membership Synchronization

On By Ronny de JongIn Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Configuration Manager, Identity, Modern Management, Windows 10Leave a comment

Device collection membership Synchronization to Azure AD security groups (aka Azure AD Group sync) is introduced since 1906 and offers a multitude of new management options. Meanwhile a lot has been written and resulted in some great blog posts by various community peers like Nickolaj Andersen, Nick Hogarth as well as by Microsoft Docs.

What these resources have in common is they all describe how to enable and configure Azure AD group sync. In this blog post I’ll go in to more details what’s behind the scenes, how device collection synchronization works and what actions you can take in the event of troubleshooting is desired.

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Keep your Microsoft Intune tenant clean and tidy /w Azure Automation & Graph API

On By Ronny de JongIn Andriod, Azure, Azure AD, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, iOS, Microsoft Intune, Mobile Device Management, PowerShell, Windows 105 Comments

Nowadays Microsoft provides us a lot of flexibility to empower end-users to be productive as never before. Users are able to register their devices in order to access corporate resources anytime, anywhere on devices they love. Provisioning of Windows 10 devices to your enterprise has never been easier for end-users. They are even able to join their brand new devices to the corporate from home taking benefit of Windows Autopilot & Azure AD MDM auto-enrollment.

From an end-user perspective this is great, productivity can be restored in minutes instead of hours or even days. However the flexibility we provide for the end-users has a downside from an IT Admin perspective. As we’re able to join or register devices to Microsoft Intune/Azure AD, it causes a lot of obsolete device objects in your tenants. Continue reading “Keep your Microsoft Intune tenant clean and tidy /w Azure Automation & Graph API” →

Use Custom Attributes for automatically populate Azure AD Dynamic Group Memberships

On By Ronny de JongIn Active Directory, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Connect, Cloud, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Infrastructure4 Comments

March this year the Active Directory team announced Attribute Based Dynamic Group Membership for Azure AD. Until then, group membership was a manual thing that had to be done for each user. With this feature you can specify a rule on an Azure AD security group that will automatically manage the membership of that group based on user’s attribute values. Dynamic Group Membership is supporting by default a subset of user attributes which can be used.

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But what if you use in your organization custom attributes for various applications-, business- and provisioning processes? In this blog post we go further and will explain how to use custom AD attributes, extend your Azure AD tenant and use these custom attributes to automatically populating a security group.

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