Windows Information Protection (WIP) App Protection Policies: Protected and Exempt; Denied and Allowed – What Do They Mean?

Windows Information Protection (WIP) App Protection Policies: Protected and Exempt; Denied and Allowed – What Do They Mean?

One of things that strikes me as vague in Windows Information Protection (WIP) policies in Intune is configuring targeted apps:  what's the exact difference between a protected app and an exempt app; and what does allow or deny exactly do for both of those? A recap on some terminology before explaining what-does-what. Targeted apps are ones the WIP service will implement controls over. Unenlightened apps cannot differentiate between work and personal data.  They have no…
Using Intune to Deploy the Azure Information Protection (AIP) Unified Labeling Client (Win32 MSI)

Using Intune to Deploy the Azure Information Protection (AIP) Unified Labeling Client (Win32 MSI)

Unified labels refer to a movement whereby Azure Information Protection (AIP) labels are now being replaced by sensitivity labels.  Sensitivity labels offer encryption, watermarks, etc as AIP labels did before them, but are now managed in the new Microsoft 365 Security Centre, with several other benefits beyond the scope of this post. With this change comes a new AIP client, called the unified labeling client, that replaces the old one, now called the classic…
Deploy Microsoft Store Apps using Intune with Configuration Manager (SCCM) Co-Management (Fix ‘Not Applicable’ Status)

Deploy Microsoft Store Apps using Intune with Configuration Manager (SCCM) Co-Management (Fix ‘Not Applicable’ Status)

Intune provides an interface to easily deploy apps from the Microsoft Store to your registered users and devices, but even if you have SCCM (Config Manager) Co-Mangement enabled with the default workloads shifted to Intune in Co-Management properties, there is more to be done.  If you don't follow these steps, you will receive the status of Not applicable in the Intune client apps user and device install status pages. Prerequisite: This only works with…