Nickolaj Andersen
Senior Architect - Enterprise Mobility MVP
Stockholm, Sweden
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Nickolaj specializes in Enterprise Mobility and Security, Windows deployments and automation. Additionally, he has extensive experience with planning, implementing and migrating Microsoft Endpoint Manager environments on a global scale. Nickolaj has also been awarded as PowerShell Hero 2015 by the community, is the creator of popular community tools and solutions such as Modern Driver Management, CloudLAPS, ConfigMgr Prerequisites Tool, ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd, ConfigMgr WebService and a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups.
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Shutting down ConfigMgr - What did we do about imaging?
It’s a reality today that many organisations find themselves at a point where device management is purely cloud based, delivered through Microsoft Intune.
This has been an incredibly quick transition, and one that although brought its own challenges, most of which are now overcome… except for one of course. What happens when we need to image a device, perhaps due to faulty hardware, or just to get the machine squeaky clean before being handed out for Autopilot enrolment.
in this session we will talk about how this was overcome for a global organisation with over 120k endpoints, giving real world experience of how this reality was achieved, allowing for the switch off of Configuration Manager, and an OS deployment solution that can be used anywhere, with just an internet connection.
Join us for a journey into PowerShell, WinPE, Azure storage, key vault, and function apps, in an automation project that literally delivers.
Navigating the Cloud-Native shift: Insights & best practices
Join us for a session with two experts in transitioning to cloud-native device management. Learn about their journey from managing on-premises devices to using Intune for cloud-based management. Is the transition smooth? Can it save costs? Understand why this shift is important and get valuable insights.
Discover the challenges they faced and learn best practices, tips, and tricks for a successful transition. Don't miss this chance to upgrade your device management strategy.
How we upgraded 100.000 devices to Windows 11 using Intune
Upgrade to Windows 11 with confidence using tools like the Feature Update Controller in this “notes from the field” session. We’ll share practical insights on pre-staging scripts, configuring deployments, and resolving the 24-hour delay for Windows toast notifications to ensure immediate restart alerts. Explore best practices for gradual rollouts, potential challenges when shifting policies from optional to required, and creating custom reporting for real-time analytics.
Building secure automation for Intune devices without compromising security
Wouldn’t it be great if your Intune-managed devices could securely connect to Intune or Entra ID to perform actions on themselves? Imagine a device querying its own information from Microsoft Graph API or updating custom attributes in the cloud, all triggered by a locally running script—without exposing credentials or compromising security.
While these capabilities are possible in various ways, the key challenge is how to implement them securely. How do you enable automation without embedding secrets in your code or opening vulnerabilities?
In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into secure automation for cloud-managed devices. We’ll explore how to ensure that communication between a device and the cloud is trusted, authenticated, and protected. You’ll learn best practices for securing automation in a cloud-first world, retrieving data from Intune or Entra ID, and leveraging Azure services to enable seamless, secure workflows.
Key takeaways:
✅ How to use Azure Functions and Managed Identities for secure automation
✅ Ensuring only trusted devices can interact with your infrastructure
✅ Real-world implementations of these strategies in large enterprise environments
Proactive Remediations and Azure Functions better together
If you manage Windows device with Intune and have ever been in need of retrieving data from Intune or Azure AD, or perhaps want to learn more how you can securely send log data from your devices to Log Analytics, you don't want to miss out on this demo heavy session.
In this session we dig deep into the concepts of automation for cloud managed devices, how to make sure communication between the device and backend is secure and is only coming from a trusted device in your organization.
We'll share best practices on how to secure your automations in a cloud-first world when retrieving data from Intune or Azure AD in scripts running locally on the device and which Azure services to leverage to accommodate everything.
How we migrated some big organizations to Intune
Come join this session where industry experts will showcase how large organizations have successfully completed the steps to move their whole device management infrastructure to Intune. We'll discuss obstacles, solutions to where there's a gap in functionality, common pitfalls but also provide tips and tricks on how to shift the mindset when it comes to legacy organizational structures that requires new thinking where a flat-structured approach is the key to success.
In this session we'll focus on two large organizations that have recently gone through this journey and are now managing devices completely with Intune in a cloud-only fashion.
Deep dive into Graph API and Intune
In this session, we will provide a deep dive into using the Graph API for automating Intune related tasks. We will discuss authentication, the different credential flows and when to use delegated or application scopes when setting up your own app registration to keep track of who can access your data.
By the end of this session, you'll have a better understanding of how to construct an efficient request using query parameters, deal with pagination, lazy properties and when to use the v1.0 and Beta versions of Graph API.
Fully automated Win32 application packaging in Intune
Imagine a world where Win32 apps in Intune would just download, package and publish themselves, all made ready for your end users to consume the apps they want. Does that pique your interest? Join this session to get a deep technical understanding of tools and community solutions available today that can ease your daily administrative tasks associated with application packaging and take them to the next level, more or less fully automated. This will be a session where there's more PowerShell code shown than PowerPoint slides! We will go through the IntuneWin32App module, IntuneWin32AppFramework and finally touch point on how these tools can be combined into a fully automated Azure DevOps Pipeline powered solution, the Intune App Factory.
Nickolaj Andersen
Senior Architect - Enterprise Mobility MVP
Stockholm, Sweden
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