Intune Device Management
Beloit College uses a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution called Intune to facilitate efficient management of all college-owned Windows devices. Intune provides self-service options for faculty and staff which allows LITS to keep computers updated and secure, and ensures technical problems are kept to a minimum. LITS requires that all faculty and staff workstations are enrolled into the Intune management system. Enrollment will open on Monday March 27th, 2023 and all faculty and staff workstations must be enrolled by April 3rd, 2023.
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Intune Enrollment only takes 3-5 minutes to complete |
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Device Enrollment
On Campus Enrollment
Log out of your machine.
Select Other User in the bottom lefthand corner.
Connect your machine to BCNet and wait for it to have internet access.
Sign in using your full Beloit College email address including the @beloit.edu part that is usually omitted and your current Beloit network password. This is the password that you connect to BCNet with.
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For enrollment to complete successfully you must be connected to the internet during the first sign in. |
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The sign in process will return to normal once your machine is enrolled. |
Off Campus Enrollment
Log into your machine as you normally would.
Connect to OpenVPN. Instructions on how to install or connect can be found here.
Click the Windows icon in the bottom lefthand corner. Click on your profile picture, and select Switch User.
You can also access the Switch User option when pressing Control + Alt + Delete.
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It is important to pick Switch User, selecting Sign Out will disconnect OpenVPN. |
4. In the bottom lefthand of your screen click on Other User.
5. Ensure that your machine is still connected to the internet. If it has disconnected, reconnect to the internet.
6. Sign in using your full Beloit College email address including the @beloit.edu part that is usually omitted and your current Beloit network password. This is the password that you connect to BCNet with.
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For enrollment to complete successfully you must be connected to the internet during the first sign in. |
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The sign in process will return to normal once your machine is enrolled. |
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Confirm Your Device Has Successfully Enrolled into Intune
Click Start on your Windows device.
Click on Settings.
3. Click Accounts.
4. Click Access work or school.
5. When you click on the options in this menu, one of the options in this menu will have the now have an info button.
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If the Info button is available you’ve successfully enrolled the device into Intune. |
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is Intune, why is LITS implementing it?
A: As organizations move to support on-campus, hybrid, and remote workforces, they're challenged with managing the different devices that access organization resources. Employees and students need to collaborate, work from anywhere, and securely access and connect to these resources. In LITS we Admins need to protect organization data, manage end user access, and support users from wherever they work. Intune allows us to fulfill both of these goals.
Q: Will I lose and data, files, or apps?
A: No, you will still be able to access all of your data, files and apps they will all still be available in the spot you’d normally access them.
Q: What is the Company Portal app?
A: Company Portal is the app that lets you, as an employee of Beloit College, securely access LITS approved resources.
Q: What is OneDrive?
A: OneDrive creates an automatic backup of your machine in its current state. In short, Beloit College faculty and staff computers utilize Microsoft OneDrive for backup and sync of critical folders on Windows machines these are the Desktop, Documents, and Photos folders. LITS has more reading on OneDrive available here.