What’s Changed in Enterprise Mobility Suite:

Enterprise Mobility Suite is renamed as Enterprise Mobility and Security. The existing enterprise Mobility Suite becomes Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 with no change for existing customers. A new upcoming plan will be known as Enterprise Mobility + Security E5.

Intune and its changes:

New Management Capabilities which includes Windows Updates, Windows Firewall and Endpoint protection

Azure AD Premium and its changes:

The existing Azure Active Directory Premium becomes Azure Active Directory Premium P1 with no change for existing customers

Azure Active Directory Premium P2 which will be available in coming days includes all the capabilities of Azure Active Directory Premium P1 as well as Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management capabilities

Azure RMS and its Changes:

Azure Rights Management Premium becomes Azure Information Protection Premium P1 with no change in existing customers and Azure Information Protection Premium P2 adds advanced capabilities

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Managing Windows with Microsoft Intune Client software:

Get a trial version of EMS here

Instead of enrolling windows PC as a mobile device, we can now enroll and manage windows PC’s by installing a client software. This has got the new management capabilities which supports Software updates, windows firewall and Endpoint protection

 

The following management capabilities are added with Intune client software:

1. Application Management : Deploying Applications
2. Endpoint protection : Managing and monitor malware attacks
3. Windows Firewall : Configuring windows firewall settings
4. Hardware and software inventory
5. Remote control : Remote assistance request
6. Software updates : Managing software updates

In this discussion, I am showcasing the software updates capabilities with Windows Intune Client software

1. Download the client software

Intune Client software can be downloaded from here Or from the Intune Admin Console as shown below

Login to Intune portal at https://manage.microsoft.com

2. Enroll the windows Machine

Once the Intune Client software is downloaded and installed, the windows machine reports to Intune

 

We can check the status of the machine in company portal too  at https://portal.manage.microsoft.com

Now we can manage the updates for this Windows Machine with Intune

Software Updates in Windows Intune:

This feature is similar to the software update feature in System Center Configuration Manager where we can keep the windows Machines up to date with the latest software updates. These updates can be from Microsoft/non-Microsoft. When we enroll a Windows Machine in Intune with Intune Client software, that Machine reports to Intune wherein we can see the no of updates required, manage the updates by approving/declining, see the status of the installation and compliance.

A sample Intune Dashboard showing software updates

Different Types of Updates: There are 7 different types of updates available out of which some are mandatory updates which doesn’t prompt for approval

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Microsoft vs Non-Microsoft Updates:

Software Updates by Microsoft:  Before we configure Microsoft updates, we have to configure product categories and update classifications

Navigate to Intune console – > Admin -> Updates where we can select the category and classification as per our requirement

 Now, as we selected the product category and update classification, all the updates are synchronized to Intune console

Automatic approval rules – These rules automatically approve specified types of update and reduce your administrative overhead. For example, you might want to automatically approve all critical software updates.

Update Software not made from Microsoft:

We can also update the software which is not from Microsoft. To achieve this, we have to upload the software through upload wizard which will be saved in the cloud storage and later we can approve/decline and deploy to the specific collection as we do for Microsoft updates

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Deploying a sample Microsoft update to enrolled computer:

Now, we installed a Intune client software, enrolled a computer to Intune console, selected the product category and classification, synchronised the updates to Intune. Let us try deploying a security update to the enrolled computer.

The enrolled computer has 96 software updates that need approval

Select any update and approve it

Create a collection ( group ) and deploy the update to the collection

Select the approval settings. These are similar to the settings in System Center Configuration Manager

Select the deadline to install the update

Open Microsoft Intune Center ( This is similar to Software Center in System Center Configuration Manager ) in the client machine and check for updates

Check for the updates installation in control panel

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Deploying a sample Non – Microsoft update to enrolled computer:

We can even deploy Non-Microsoft Applications and updates with Intune by uploading the application/update to the Intune storage and then deploying to the specific collection or a group. In this case, I have chosen Google chrome as a Non-Microsoft application which is to be deployed to the enrolled computer. We can also try with Java updates as Non-Microsoft updates if Java is installed in the machine

Navigate to Intune console -> updates -> All Updates and click on upload

Specify the location of update setup file

This is quite interesting section. This will allow to select the architecture and Operating system so that we can have these filters at deployment level

This section will gives the system the ability to check if the update/application is already installed in the targeted machine. This will avoid the re installation of the same application and avoids the overriding of previous versions

In this section we can specify command line arguments for custom installation

Approve

Deploy to the collection ( group )

Select the approval settings

Open Microsoft Intune Center in the client machine and check for the updates.

Confirm the installation in Control Panel

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Many  Organizations have their web portals and applications which are hosted on- premise and there are many methods to give access to these applications on internet

One of the traditional methods is to have a Virtual Private Network configured, which will establish a secured connection between corporate network and internet users

Azure helps us to give access to in-house portals to internet with the help of Azure Application Proxy which avoids the need of using a separate virtual private Network configuration

For this demo, I am using Azure classic portal ( https://manage.windowsazure.com )

Components for Configuring Azure Application Proxy

1. Azure Subscription
2. Azure Application Proxy connector ( This can be downloaded from Azure Portal )
3. An in-house portal which can be added to Azure

Azure Subscription :

you can get a free trial subscription from https://manage.windowsazure.com

If you have any existing Azure subscription ( either through EMS or O365, login to the Azure portal with Global Admin credentials )

Configuration of Azure Application Proxy 

Navigate to Azure portal from https://manage.windowsazure.com

Navigate to Active Directory

Click on Dashboard and scroll down to the end, where you can see Application Proxy

Click on Configure

Scroll down to Application Proxy section

By default, Application proxy is disabled. Switch to enabled

Download the connector from the url

It is recommended to install the connector in Windows Server 2012 R2 Server which has access to Corporate Network as well as internet

The installation will prompt for the Azure Admin credentials

Run the Connector troubleshooter

You will be prompted with a command prompt on successful installation

Go back to the azure portal ( https://manage.windowsazure.com ) and come to the section of application proxy through the dashboard

Click on Manage Connectors if you install multiple connectors for redundancy

Adding in-house portal to Azure :

For this demo, I am using an in-house portal http://*****mysalary/, which can be accessed only through my corporate network

Url : http://*****mysalary/

Now, I will add this portal in Azure and configure it, to access from internet

Access Azure portal ( https://manage.windowsazure.com )

Navigate to Active Directory and click on Applications

Click on Add button which is at the bottom of the page and select the third option which is “publish an application that will be accessible from outside your network”

Give the details of the portal

Add the users to which you want to give access to this portal and navigate to Configure section as highlighted below

External url is the one which will allow you to access this portal through internet as you can see it has https in the url

To access this portal, Navigate to https://myapps.microsoft.com and sign in with Azure credentials

This will give you the list of applications and portals for which you were given access from Azure

In our scenario, payroll proxy is the App which will allow us to access my in-house portal through internet

I am able to login to the portal through internet and you can see the url with https://*****

Cross Check :

If you want to cross check whether proxy is configured correctly, you can access the app in mobile phone

Download “My Apps” application from Play store which will provide the list of applications under your login

List of apps available :

As you can see, I am able to access my payroll portal through https://***  in my mobile phone