Microsoft Power Automate

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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Using a custom connector for device management actions in Microsoft Intune

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This week is again all about the powerful combination of Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate with Microsoft Intune (and Microsoft Graph). In my previous post about introducing a mobile device manager app for Microsoft Intune, I relied on the standard available functionalities within the different products to show how easy it is to get started and to create your own app in Power Apps. Because of that starting point, I relied on providing application API permissions when accessing the Graph API. In that post, I also mentioned that there is another method available by using delegated API permissions when accessing the Graph API. Also, to be really honest, when an app in Power Apps is working with a signed-in user, it also makes …

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Introducing a simple remote device manager app for Microsoft Intune

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This new year starts with something completely new. That means, some technology that hasn’t been part of any of the posts on my blog before. Inspired by some posts of Courtenay Bernier, I took some time to dive into the world of Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate, in combination with Microsoft Intune (and Microsoft Graph). This post will cover how I’ve used those technologies – with almost no custom code – to create a simple remote device manager app for Microsoft Intune. I’ll also hope that this post will show the power of this combination and inspire more readers to dive into that world. Basic knowledge of the mentioned technologies is required, as this post won’t be completely step-by-step and won’t provide a …

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