Holding back the upgrade to Windows 11 with Intune

With Windows 11 pushing its way towards your environment’s devices, you may find the need to hold back this upgrade to some or maybe all your devices, for any reason. Holding back the upgrade can be done via Intune for easy deployment to your devices. Script can be found in the post.

Office 365 Splash

Security: O365 – did you remember to disable legacy authentication before October 13, 2020?

If you have kept up to date with the many announcements around 365 – spesifically Exchange Online, from Microsoft, you may remember that they announced that end of support for basic authentication were coming to various parts of Exchange Online in 365.
Subscribers of O/M365 should move to using modern authentication, as this is more secure and gives alot of other benefits.
The said date for this change was set to October 13 2020,

Security: How to enable sign-in with FIDO2 security keys on Windows 10 Devices and Azure AD

FIDO2 security keys are an unphishable standards-based passwordless authentication method that can come in any form factor. Fast Identity Online (FIDO) is an open standard for passwordless authentication. FIDO allows users and organizations to leverage the standard to sign in to their resources without a username or password using an external security key or a platform key built into a device. Read the post to see how you can enable this for your Azure ad and windows 10 devices.

Office 365 Splash

Office 365: Hvordan be om flytting av dine 365 data til Norge.

april ble det mulighet for å ha Office 365 kjernedata lokalisert til Norsk lokasjon hos Microsoft.
Dersom du har 365 tjenester idag, så er disse ved annen lokasjon i Europa, og dersom du ønsker det, kan du nå be om å få dette “tidlig” flyttet til Norge.
Ett begrenset opt-in vindu er nå tilgjengelig i 6 måneder for å be om tidlig migrering. Etter dette vil det være betydelig vanskeligere å få gjennomført migrering til Norge. Les mer for å se hvordan du ber om flytting.

Intune – Publishing win32 applications with Intune

So, you got licenses for Microsoft Intune, and want to roll out some applications to your devices.
If you are new to this you may be faced with some issues, especially regarding what kind of applications you can publish, and how to do so.
There are numerous formats for applications to manage these days – you got the Windows store applications (appx) from Windows 8>>, Line of business apps in the form of MSI installers, and win32 apps.
I will not go into detail on MSI and Windows store here, as these are rather easy to deploy via the information in the web gui.

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