Jan Skanke
COO, Partner And Principal Cloud Architect at MSEndpointMgr
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Skanke is COO, Partner and Principal Cloud Architect at CloudWay and a Microsoft MVP in Security, blending strategic leadership with deep hands-on expertise in Microsoft Intune, Azure, and enterprise mobility. He has a strong track record as an international speaker and community builder—organizing major events like Experts Live Norway and Workplace Ninjas Norway 2025—while maintaining an active technical presence through the MSEndpointMgr community and blog. His GitHub work highlights practical automation for Intune, including monitoring Apple connectors and automating BitLocker recovery and M365 app installs, showing a focus on resilient, operational tooling. Based in Oslo, he excels at removing blockers and integrating cloud services into existing environments, pairing advisory and delivery roles for customers and partners. Notably, he combines product- and event-driven community leadership with day-to-day DevOps craftsmanship, a mix that helps translate complex cloud security and management challenges into reliable, usable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree IT, Engineer's Degree IT at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST)Artium Allmennfag, Artium Allmennfag at Tanks
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (10)
powershell10
automation10
automations10
azure-automation10
scripting10
devops9
microsoft-teams9
azure8
cloud-computing8
microsoft-azure8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MSEndpointMgr/Intune
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Microsoft Intune scripts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 99 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jan's primary contribution is the addition of a PowerShell script, `Monitor-IntuneAppleConnectors.ps1`, designed for monitoring various Apple connectors within an Intune environment. The script monitors the status of key components like Push Notification Certificates, VPP, and DEP tokens, and sends alerts to a Microsoft Teams channel. Further contributions include scripts designed to automate tasks such as recovering Bitlocker Keys, setting Windows Time Zones and installing M365 Apps and customizing the custom inventory collection. The user has demonstrated a focus on automation and system management within the Microsoft Intune ecosystem.
microsoft-intunepowershellintunemicrosoft
MSEndpointMgr/MSGraphRequest
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 months
access-tokengraph-apimsal
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