Modern Device Management

  When it comes to managing third party browser extensions for macOS, there is no easy way. While Intune has the settings added for Google Chrome in settings catalog for Windows, the same is missing for macOS. Now that organizations are using a mixture of OS platforms between Windows and macOS, it is becoming increasingly important to have consistency in management of enterprise devices. Until such time, administrators will have to find ways to configure such settings in a supported manner. Luckily in case of macOS, one can configure .plist and\or .mobileconfig files to manage most of the settings if note all. In this blog, I will quickly demonstrate how to block Google Chrome extension and display a custom message to the end user. I am using Google Drive as an example. First we need to identify the extension ID and the easiest way is to access https://chromewebstore.google.com/ and search for the application. In this case we are searching for Google Drive. The search result will displ

Back in April 2020,  Google announced deprecation of Android Device Administrator Management and since then no fixes or improvements have been added to DA. Now Microsoft recently announced that Intune will be ending support for device administrator management on devices with access to Google Mobile Services (GMS), beginning August 30, 2024. It is important to note that after Intune ends support for Android device administrator, devices with access to GMS will be impacted in the following ways:  1. Users won’t be able to enroll devices with Android device administrator. 2. Intune won’t make changes or updates to Android device administrator management, such as bug fixes, security fixes, or fixes to address changes in new Android versions. 3. Intune technical support will no longer support these devices. Moving from Android DA to Android AE. Luckily Microsoft have made it possible for organizations to move their Android enrollments from DA to AE without much hassle. It does involve some