Entra ID Joined Devices and Local Administrator Access
Rise to the complex challenge of local administrator access for Azure AD joined machines. Learn how Modern Manages addresses the issue of legacy management.
Over-the-Air Updates: Keep Devices Evergreen Without Patch Management
How good would it be if the process to update our Windows applications was as easy as it is on our smartphones? These days we take it for granted that our smartphone applications are updated, often automatically based on the rules we set. Those rules might be [...]
Zero Trust: Modern Security for the Modern Workforce
“Zero-Trust represents a cultural shift from network-based controls to identity-based policies and processes” With a plethora of device types needing to access a network, it is becoming challenging to manage secure access using traditional security strategies and tools. Attackers often bypass conventional access controls, exploiting the common assumption that assets are safe on [...]
Microsoft Intune: A Journey to Market Leader
“Intune has dominated the UEM category this year, to the point that we expect Gartner may need to change the criteria in 2021” Intune has recently been named as a category leader for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) by Gartner. In fact, Intune has dominated the UEM category in 2020, to the point that we [...]
Cloud Data: Access files anywhere, any time, on any device while improving security
“Cloud data improves productivity and access, while improving security and simplifying operations” Computer data used to be considered most secure when it was stored in on-premise servers or private data centers. This belief dates to the time when computers were hard-wired to the server through network access points. Backups were a lengthy process, [...]
Things You Need to Know About Windows 10 Version 2004
“Version 2004 is full of feature changes and a number of functional and technical improvements Welcome to the world of Windows 10 version 2004. Microsoft introduced this new version a bit earlier than it has done previously, and without much explanation to the community. When you look under the hood there’s a good [...]
Windows 10 Updates – Safer, Simpler, and User Friendly
“With Windows 10, Microsoft moved to a new update model in 2015 and this has proven to be far superior” I still remember the days of building a brand new Windows XP machine, connecting it to the internet and the machine being instantly infected with the Sasser worm before even getting [...]
Gartner UEM Magic Quadrant 2020 Perspective
The third iteration of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) has arrived. Like I do every year, it’s time to unpack, agree with and challenge what it all means in a topsy-turvy year that we call 2020.There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this quadrant is probably the most important [...]
Walkie Talkie for Microsoft Teams
“Your teams will be able to use this push-to-talk feature to communicate securely without the need for bulky radios” We have been hearing about a Walkie Talkie feature coming to Teams on mobile devices and it looks like it’s finally here! The Walkie Talkie functionality provides instant Microsoft Teams push-to-talk (PTT) communication and Microsoft have just announced it’s [...]
Kiosk Laptops and the Configuration of Intune and Entra ID
“Something that sounded pretty simple threw us a few curve balls on the way, so we thought we'd share our experience” We were recently asked by a customer to set up a kiosk laptop so their employees could sign into a web portal to complete some training activities. Something that sounded pretty [...]
