https://simongoltz.com/ ... connecting the dots Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 28 Jul 2023 10:28:21 +0200 https://simongoltz.com/advanced-compliance-reporting/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:28:21 +0200 Author https://simongoltz.com/advanced-compliance-reporting/ Here is how you can improve your Intune Device Compliance Reporting using Microsoft Graph, PowerShell and KQL. Good reporting requires context Dashboards are everywhere. Almost no application comes without reporting, which is good. Management likes reporting, IT Managers like Compliance Reporting. Compliance metrics is a must have in a modern Operations. Intune makes it easy to verify that devices comply to certain policies. However, if you’re running the thing and are responsible to improve the percentage of compliant devices, you may have recognized that the reporting features of Intune have some limitations in terms of filtering, drill down capabilities and quantitification options.]]> https://simongoltz.com/conditional-access-report-mode-reporting/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 19:28:21 +0200 Author https://simongoltz.com/conditional-access-report-mode-reporting/ This is a writeup of a session that I gave at WP Ninja Summit 2022 You must have Conditional Access! If you don’t already have it. Seriously! As soon as possible. It’s the most effective way to prevent successful phishing attacks against your Microsoft 365 services like Teams, Exchange Online and OneDrive. If you don’t have CA or MFA anyone can login with username and password. But rolling out MFA is a difficult task which involves a lot of user eductation.]]> https://simongoltz.com/deploy-zscaler-to-windows/ Wed, 11 May 2022 10:25:47 +0200 Author https://simongoltz.com/deploy-zscaler-to-windows/ This is the third of four posts where I will describe how to deploy Zscaler Client Connector (aka the app) to the different OS platforms Zscaler and Intune support. The goal is to deploy the app and prepopulate all required information to the app to create as little user friction as possible. Topic of today is Windows. For Windows it’s a relatively simple task if you have an AAD joined or Hybrid AAD joined device.]]> https://simongoltz.com/useful-links/ Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:43:42 +0100 Author https://simongoltz.com/useful-links/ https://simongoltz.com/deploy-zscaler-to-macos-with-endpoint-manager/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:19:36 +0100 Author https://simongoltz.com/deploy-zscaler-to-macos-with-endpoint-manager/ This is the second of four posts where I will describe how to deploy Zscaler Client Connector (aka the app) to the different OS platforms Zscaler and Intune support. The goal is to deploy the app and prepopulate all required information to the app to create as little user friction as possible. I continue with macOS. This is what it will look like. Well that was silent wasn’t it? So let’s see how to deploy Zscaler with Intune - without notarization or an Apple Developer Account.]]> https://simongoltz.com/deploy-zscaler-to-ios/ Fri, 11 Mar 2022 23:13:03 +0100 Author https://simongoltz.com/deploy-zscaler-to-ios/ This is the first of four posts where I will describe how to deploy Zscaler Client Connector (aka the app) to the different OS platforms Zscaler and Intune support. The goal is to deploy the app and prepopulate all required information to the app to create as little user friction as possible. I start with iOS. This is what it will look like. To achieve this, we need to configure a few things]]> https://simongoltz.com/how-to-deploy-dmg-files-with-endpoint-manager/ Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:44:48 +0100 Author https://simongoltz.com/how-to-deploy-dmg-files-with-endpoint-manager/ Deploying LOB Apps for Windows is a fairly easy task. For OSX more effort has required if you wanted to deploy .dmg files. Microsoft released a public preview feature that eases thinks a little bit if you’re deploying apps that are .app files copied to applications from a .dmg image. I will describe it in this article using Handbrake a very cool video transcoding tool. How To To install the app we will execute the following steps]]> https://simongoltz.com/monitoring-zpa-app-connector-connection/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 22:31:17 +0100 Author https://simongoltz.com/monitoring-zpa-app-connector-connection/ Quality in IT-Operations is based on proper testing and also proper monitoring, especially of critical components. ZPA App connectors are one of those and there are many ways to monitor the health of the server or the service itself e.g. using SNMP. One thing that I was looking for quite a while was how to monitor the connection of the App Connector to ZPA Cloud. It could be lost although server and service are fine.]]> https://simongoltz.com/hello-world/ Sun, 06 Feb 2022 20:21:34 +0100 Author https://simongoltz.com/hello-world/