Modern Device Management

Most organizations use custom office templates and traditionally GPO would be used to configure them. However, things are evolving and traditional methods may not get you the desired results anymore. One will need a more robust method which allows you to manage the templates centrally and update the same on end user devices quickly and efficiently. I recently had a similar requirement and decided to blog about the configuration I put in place. Things that you will need – Devices enrolled into Intune. Azure Blob Storage. Onedrive for Business installed and configured for Known folder Move (KFM) Step 1 – Upload the templates in the Blob storage and set the relevant permissions. You can set it to Private to make it restrictive, but I am choosing to make it Anonymous for the Container at a granular level.   Step 2 – Create the Admin template policy to configure the custom templates location as shown below – Sign-in to the  https://endpoint.microsoft.com Browse to...

Recently, I needed to deploy Visio & Project as standalone apps using Intune. While Intune supports this, the installation and upgrade can be an issue if any office apps are found to be running in background. At the time of writing this blog, there is no option available in the default settings to close the apps. However, such customizations can be added using XML data instead. While one can use Office Deployment Tool to create a configuration xml, the same can be achieved using https://config.office.com . Let's see how this is done. Creating the XML Head over to  https://config.office.com Click on Create a New Configuration Select the Visio app according to your license requirements. I am using Visio Online plan 2 . Select the relevant update channel & the version. In my case, I am using Current channel with latest version. Select the additional apps that you want. In my case, I am excluding both OneDrive Groove and OneDrive Desktop . Select the relev...