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Intune Security Policies – E1

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  Intune Security Policies – E1 Administrative Templates After more than seven years of working with Intune and recently focusing on securing environments by configuring Intune policies, I found that many companies are not implementing several policies, particularly those related to Administrators, Security, Access, etc. Also, most of these policies are required by Cyber Security. I decided to create this series on Intune Policies and discuss one category in each episode.   In this episode, I will discuss “ Administrative Templates Personalization ” Prevent enabling the lock screen camera. Prevent enabling the lock screen slideshow. Enable screen saver (User). Prevent enabling the lock screen camera: To stop the camera from opening on the lock screen, switch the toggle to’ Enabled. ‘ This action will prevent the user from enabling or disabling lock screen camera access in PC Settings. Consequently, the camera cannot be accessed on the lock screen. Prevent the lock screen slide...

How to block TikTok or other social media

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Have you considered blocking social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and others on corporate devices?   Many government entities in our community want to restrict access to social media on their official devices rather than personally owned devices (BYOD). There are several reasons for this. For example, in the USA, TikTok was blocked and unblocked.   There are many ways to do this, such as Firewall, Network, Microsoft Defender, and so on. However, I will discuss how to do it via Intune. Create a Policy:         Create a New Policy: Name it as you want and add the description.     Configuration settings > add settings > and search for “URL blocking” and pick both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. And pick the one for the device, not the user, did not work for me. Then add the URL you want to block to “ Block access to a list of URLs (Device)”. I went a little further by disallowing the users to run the TikTok application “...