Month: November 2024

Managing automatic switching in Microsoft Edge for Business

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This week is all about Microsoft Edge for Business and the automatic switching feature. Microsoft Edge for Business is the dedicated Microsoft Edge experience that is created for work accounts. It provides IT administrators with the capabilities to provide users with a productive and secure browsing experience across managed and unmanaged devices. That includes the ability to manage the automatic switching behavior between work and personal profiles. Automatically switching between profiles can help users to keep their work and personal browsing separate. When the device has an existing work profile, it enables automatic switching when adding a personal profile, to enforce the browsing context separation. That behavior can also be managed. The automatic switching is not always desirable, or sometimes needs some tuning. This post will …

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Configuring Google Chrome for usage with device-based Conditional Access

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This week is sort of a follow-up on last week. Last week the focus was on configuring Mozilla Firefox for usage with device-based Conditional Access, while this week the focus is on configuring Google Chrome for usage with device-based Conditional Access. That is already a supported scenario for many years, but in the early days that would require the Windows Accounts extension. That, however, has changed, making it easier to configure without installing a specific extension in the browser. Nowadays, there is a setting available that can be configured to automatically sign-in user accounts backed by a Microsoft Cloud identity provider. So, that’s even easier to configure. Especially when knowing that Microsoft Intune has Google Chrome configuration options directly available via the Settings Catalog. Minor …

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Configuring Mozilla Firefox for usage with device-based Conditional Access

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This week is all about managing and configuring Mozilla Firefox, with the main focus on using it with device-based Conditional Access. When looking specifically at Conditional Access, Mozilla Firefox is nowadays a supported browser for device-based Conditional Access scenarios on devices running Windows 10 and later. That is of course a really good thing, but it does require a specific configuration that should be in place within the browser. A single configuration that could be a real lifesaver on managed devices. Even better, on managed devices that configuration can also be set by using Microsoft Intune. To facilitate that, Mozilla provides easy configuration options via Group Policy templates. This blog post will provide a brief overview of importing those settings, followed with the steps to …

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Updating Enterprise App Catalog apps

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This week is all about creating awareness about the recently introduced functionality to easily update apps from the Enterprise App Catalog. The Enterprise App Catalog is part of Enterprise App Management and provides a collection of apps that are prepared by Microsoft for usage within Microsoft Intune. This new functionality provides IT administrators with a guided experience for updates that are available for apps within the catalog. That starts with a brief overview of the available updates for apps that are used from the catalog, and that overview results in to a pretty straight forward guided experience for updating a specific app. That guided experience eventually creates a new Win32 app that supersedes the current version of the app, and that can be deployed towards …

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