#Modern Workplace

Enrolment time grouping for Android Enterprise is finally here. I had been using it for Autopilot Device Preparation (APDP) and now that it supports Android OS, I wanted to experience it first hand and capture all the caveats or gotchas. For those who are not familiar with the feature, enrolment time grouping was first introduced for Windows OS as part of Autopilot Device Preparation to speed up app and policy provisioning during device enrollment. The feature allows enrolment time grouping when you can add a Microsoft Entra security group in the enrolment profile so that devices are added to the group during enrolment, rather than after. This pre-knowledge of the security group that the device will become member of after enrollment enables Intune to deliver the configurations to the device quickly on enrollment, not only reduces post-enrolment latency but also improves productivity. If you don't configure enrolment time grouping, then Microsoft Intune can only determine the apps a...

The background.. Just a while back, Merill Fernando  (Product Manager at Microsoft) shared a post on LinkedIn about disabling SSPR for admin accounts. This was based off the recommendation on Maester  that  "Administrators with sensitive roles should use phishing-resistant authentication methods only and therefore not able to reset their password using SSPR." Now, with phishing-resistant authentication enabled, one may argue that there shouldn't be a need to disable SSPR for administrators, however, in my honest opinion it is still a good idea to disable SSPR for administrators as this will also align with both least privilege and zero trust model. But first, we are going to cover what all is involved in configuring Phishing resistant MFA. Enabling Phishing resistant MFA for Windows devices which uses Windows Hello for Business is pretty much an out of box functionality, but what about Apple devices like Macbooks that run on macOS? Let's find out.. Platform credentia...