With Intune’s new Bitlocker Encryption Report administrators have an effective way of seeing which of their devices have been encrypted.
But if we want to know if we can actually recover the bitlocker key of a device, we need to know if it was ever uploaded to AzureAD.
Network or local device issues can sometimes prevent the recovery key from reaching AzureAD, resulting in lost data if the device’s disk needs to be recovered for any reason. To hunt down devices that have not escrowed their recovery key to AzureAD, you can use my report function (in PowerShell as always):
Most solutions that describe how to deploy a font through Intune use an external source to host fonts such as Azure Blob storage.
If you want to KISS (keep it simple, stupid), you don’t want to maintain two different things (your script and externally accessible storage).
The following example shows how to embed a file in a PowerShell script, and then install it into the Fonts folder. This could, of course, be used for other purposes, but don’t forget that the script size limit in Intune is only 200kb.
On the first line, follow the instructions (e.g. paste your b64-encoded font on that line). Now save and check if the size is below 200kb, then distribute the script to your users. For Fonts, don’t forget to let the script run in system context as administrative permissions are required when installing Fonts.
This method can be used to deploy other payloads as well, happy scripting!
As I couldn’t google an answer to this one and the error was misleading, if you are using the Intune Service Connector to distribute PCKS certificates from your onprem PKI to your Intune clients and see the following error in the Connector eventlogs:
“DiagnosticText”:”We are unable to complete your request because a server-side error occurred. Please try again. [Exception Message: \”DiagnosticException\”] [Exception Message: \”IssuePfx – The submission failed\”]”
},
“Name”:”PkcsCertIssue_Failure”,
“Value”:0
}
}
And this error on your CA:
EventId 22:
Active Directory Certificate Services could not process request 136204 due to an error: Error 0xc8000211 (ESE: -529). The request was for COMPUTERNAME. Additional information: Error Parsing Request
Ensure you restart the Active Directory Certificate Services service on your CA. This is not required as per the documentation, but was surely required in my environment.
In a Windows 10 full MDM (AzureAD+Intune) scenario, you’ll move your email, app and file workloads to Office 365 (or alternatives).
In your pilot or hybrid phase, you may still need access to certain file shares on your servers, so here’s a simple PowerShell script you can deploy using Intune Device Configuration that maps your desired share. Deploy multiple times for multiple shares (or groups of users).
It will create a shortcut in a location you define, so the mapping is always user-driven, it will automatically suggest your user’s AzureAD login as username. You can of course customize the script to your liking if you did not change your local AD upn yet.
As I want to run this from an Azure runbook, silently, I had to modify it a little so it automatically consents to azure app permissions and logs in silently. If you’d like to use it, feel free to add it from the Azure gallery (search for Lieben) or download it yourself.
Make sure you’ve also imported the AzureAD and AzureRM modules into your automation account, and configured a credential object for the script to use.
