Adaptive Cards for Teams

Making Intune notifications smarter by using a Copilot agent

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This week is all about making Intune notifications smarter by using a Copilot agent. Agents enable organizations to extend to capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot in new ways, by customizing the Copilot experience to fit their needs. Those agents can be connected to specific organization knowledge and data sources. Besides that, those agents can also be used for automating and executing business processes. That basically means that those AI-driven agents can be used to perform a wide variety of tasks, including automating repetitive tasks, providing insights and supporting users. And those users include IT administrators. For Intune notifications that means that an agent can help with gathering information, making it presentable, and directly providing IT administrators with actionable steps to address the trigger of the …

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Simplifying repetitive administrative tasks by using low-code solutions: An overview

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This week my post is a few days later, as my post is an extension of the session of me and Pim Jacobs at the Nordic Virtual Summit Third Edition. At the virtual summit we did a session about Simplifying repetitive administrative tasks by using low-code solutions​. During that session we shared information around the basics of low-code solutions and we provided some nice examples around Microsoft Intune and Azure AD. This post will provide a quick summary of that session. The slides (PDF) of that session are available for download here. Closing notes and summary It might sound a bit weird to start with the closing notes and summary. That, however, is the best summary of our session, as the biggest part of the session was demo. Besides the difference in what classifies …

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Retiring non-compliant devices with Azure Logic Apps and Adaptive Cards for Teams

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This week is another follow-up on the first few weeks of this year. Those weeks the focus was on monitoring the status of the different connectors, certificates, tokens and deployments, while this week the focus is on more than just monitoring. This week will be about non-compliant devices marked to retire. That means querying information and actually performing an action. When looking at device compliance policies, the IT administrator can configure the actions for non-compliance. One of those actions is to configure Retire the noncompliant device. That action, however, won’t actually retire the device and will only add the device to the Retire Noncompliant Devices view. Once added to that view, there is still a manual action required by the IT administrator to actually retire …

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Monitoring Windows Autopilot deployments with Azure Logic Apps and Adaptive Cards for Teams

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This week is another follow-up on the last couple of weeks. The last couple of weeks the focus was on monitoring the status of the different connectors, certificates and tokens, while this week the focus is on monitoring deployments. More specifically, on monitoring Windows Autopilot deployments. Especially when dealing with many (remote) Windows Autopilot deployments, it can be useful to retrieve some deployment triggers without constantly having to check the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center. That can help with getting a good feeling about the stability and with getting triggered when users deal with failed Windows Autopilot deployments (as not all users call IT about failures). This post walks through the main components that are required to query Windows Autopilot deployment status information in Microsoft …

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Collection of information for monitoring the status of connectors, certificates and tokens

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This week is a follow-up on last week. Last week the focus was on providing an example for monitoring the Apple MDM push certificate with Azure Logic Apps and Adaptive Cards for Teams and this week the focus is on providing more endpoints in Microsoft Graph that can be used for monitoring all different connectors, certificates and tokens. This blog post will provide a collection of the different endpoints, the properties to verify and example queries to use. All summarized in tables, including links to the documentation. The following connectors, certificates and tokens are addressed within this post. Note: This list of connectors, certificates and tokens is made based on the information available within Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center (Tenant administration > Connectors and tokens). …

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Monitoring Apple MDM push certificate with Azure Logic Apps and Adaptive Cards for Teams

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This new year starts again with something completely new. That means, some of the technology hasn’t be part of any of the posts on this blog before. This post will provide a look at using Azure Logic Apps for querying Microsoft Intune (via Microsoft Graph) and posting the results in Microsoft Teams. That’s an awesome combination for automating administrative tasks and triggering IT administrators to perform actions. The idea of this post is to show the power of that combination and to show the simplicity to automate administrative tasks. This post provides a simple example that will query status information about the Apple MDM push certificate in Microsoft Intune and posts that information in an adaptive card in a Microsoft Teams chat, when action is …

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