Group Policy

Windows – Control Internet Explorer retirement with group policy and Intune device configuration

As you know, Internet Explorer has been part of the Windows world for quite some time (first released in August 1995) and is now unsupported and being discontinued by being replaced by more modern web browser like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. In May 2021, Microsoft has announced the 2 steps retirement phases for Internet […]

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Intune – You can now import your GPO settings to Intune

By now, you may already know that Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager has a feature to analyze your GPO settings and help you identify how to migrate them (when possible) to Intune configuration profiles. This feature, called Group Policy Analytics, has been introduced in September 2020 (see https://t.co/tqoPstbND8). Well, good news as this feature has been upgraded

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Intune – Use the Group Policy Analytics report to prepare the migration of your GPO to Endpoint Configuration Manager MDM

For years, IT administrators have been using group policy objects (GPO) – and still continue today – to manage/configure devices, both clients and servers. With the move to a cloud-based devices management, the need to replicate as much as possible settings set using GPO is more and more relevant. To help you prepare moving from

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Office – New GPO settings available to give easier access to Insider option

As you know, Office 365 Pro Plus (aka Office Click to Run) can be enabled to join the Office Insider program in order to get early access to new features – like the Windows Insider program for Windows 10. Until then, application administrators did not had much choice to enable/disable and lock down the access

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Intune – Group Policy is coming in Intune (preview)

The latest update on Intune is providing (in preview) the ability to configure group policy (GPO) for Windows 10 devices. This is not (yet?) the exact group policy we have in Active Directory but the idea is the same and based on the well known Administrative Templates (ADM/ADMX). NOTE this is currently not supported for

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