Archives for January 2019 | byteben

Converting legacy packages into applications with SCCM 1810 Package Conversion Manager

Ben Whitmore / January 30, 2019 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft

Background Since SCCM 2012 Microsoft have been steering us towards using “applications” to install apps over the traditional “packages” method. Applications give us additional benefits over packages like detection methods, dependencies and requirement rules . An example might be:- Install APP-B if the folder “C:\Program Files\APP-B_FOLDER” doesn’t exist (detection), only if APP-A is already installed […]

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Generate Office 365 PAC Files with PowerShell

Ben Whitmore / January 25, 2019 / Microsoft, Office 365, Scripts

If you have a proxy server in your environment and are using (or thinking about using) Office 365 then you will hit some pain barriers. As awesome as Office 365 is, she just isn’t a fan of proxies. We used to be left to our own initiative, creating complex proxy bypass rules and guessing which

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Create an Intune App Protection Policy to force an app “Pin Reset” after x days

Ben Whitmore / January 11, 2019 / Intune, Microsoft

The Intune Team announced a nifty app protection policy addition for the “Week of January 7, 2019” edition > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/whats-new You can now change the number of days before the app PIN must be changed. This new policy works for both IOS and Android devices. Create an Intune App Protection Policy 1 . Navigate to

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Using PowerShell with Microsoft Graph to query Intune Devices

Ben Whitmore / January 8, 2019 / Intune, Microsoft, Scripts

What is Microsoft Graph? Microsoft Graph connects resources across Office 365 services. Using https://graph.microsoft.com you can connect to these services and access a wealth of resources, relationships and intelligence. You can read more on Microsoft Graph at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/overview How do I use Microsoft Graph? If you have a requirement to return a wealth of information

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