Microsoft Intune can be extremely powerful because of its MDM and MAM capabilities. Mobile Application Management (MAM) enables MSPs to securely protect corporate data on personal or BYOD devices without having to enroll in the full MDM solution. This is significant so that all administration is scoped only to devices that the company owns. For […]
In this video, I show you how to federate a Microsoft Azure Active Directory domain to Apple Business Manager. This federation allows you to automatically create managed Apple IDs and allows users to authenticate with their Azure Active Directory credentials. This is most beneficial with Intune, where you can control the device lifecycle when it […]
As we continue to shift the management of devices to Intune, I wanted an easy way to see all of the devices across all customers. I wanted to include metadata at a multi-tenant level such as device compliance and autopilot enrollment. I created a script that creates a new flexible asset in IT Glue and […]
Automate license information across all of your customers in Syncro using powershell. This script displays all current licensed and unlicensed users as well as showing what licenses are available vs. consumed on a per tenant basis. Github Repository
Below are all of the relevant MSP related Microsoft announcements from April. Microsoft Teams 1. Microsoft Teams: webinars plus new meeting registration options Impacts End Users × Dismiss alert How this will affect your organization: When scheduling a meeting, your users will see the Webinar option on the Calendar drop down menu in Teams (desktop/web). […]
Documenting customer Microsoft 365 environments can be extremely tedious and time consuming. Keeping that information up to date is also a heavy task to manage. I wanted to create some scripts that would automate and update documents in Syncro that are tied to your customer environments. For this reason I create a some scripts that […]
Inevitably between all of the customers you manage, there is bound to be a few human errors in offboarding users from Microsoft 365. A great practice when offboarding is converting a user’s mailbox to shared so that you can retain data but not have to pay for a subscription. I have heard countless stories of […]
As we continue to push environments to the cloud, running powershell as a scheduled task on a server is quickly going to become outdated and inefficient. Azure Functions in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud are the next iteration of running scheduled or triggered powershell jobs in your customer environments. Azure Functions allow you to connect to all […]
Microsoft has been allowing self-service purchase capabilities for end-users for over a year now. According to their FAQ, “Customers can make a self-service purchase online from the product websites or from in-app purchase prompts. Customers are first asked to enter an email address to ensure that they’re a user in an existing Azure Active Directory […]
Teams Prevent attendees from sharing video feed in Microsoft Teams Meetings End User Impact × Dismiss alert How this will affect your organization By default, meeting attendees will be able to turn their camera on or off to share video, which is the current experience. There are three ways that meeting organizers or presenters may […]
If you are an MSP in the SMB market, you are likely are running a hybrid environment with most of your customers. We have used AD Connect for years now (previously known as DirSync) to sync local active directory into our cloud environments. I’ve personally performed over 100 email migrations and it was something I […]
In the video below, I show how to configure Apple Business Manager and Microsoft Intune for automated device enrollment. It includes enrollment for both macOS and iOS devices. This powerful technology allows an MSP to ship devices directly to end-users. Devices can be preconfigured with policies, settings, and applications. The user can boot the device […]
