Happy October and welcome to this weeks newsletter, quite a lot of video content this week so don’t forget to check those out!
Community Content
We start this week with a useful script from Damien Van Robaeys which will report not only on the last 20 devices with a BSOD, but also include the BSOD output and add it to a Teams channel!
https://www.systanddeploy.com/2023/10/get-notified-on-teams-channel-on-top-20.html
If you want to test your app packages, you need to make sure you run them as close to a live environment as you can. By using psexec, you can launch applications in the system context to match Intune. Find out how here with Florian Salzmann
https://scloud.work/testing-applications-system-context-psexec/
You may have some AAD/EJ devices which users need to RDP into, but don’t want to give access to everyone in the estate. If this applies to you, check out this post from Peter van der Woude
Hybrid Joining your existing devices is often the first step on your cloud journey (just don’t hybrid Autopilot!). This excellent guide from Alex Semibratov runs through the entire process
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/only-article-you-need-hybrid-azure-ad-join-haadj-alex-semibratov/
Rudy Ooms has released part 6 of the series looking at the WinDc refresh with a typically complicated flow-chart
https://call4cloud.nl/2023/10/the-wonderful-story-of-the-mi-provider/
A second post from Rudy with a warning about updating your BIOS on Lenovo machines
https://call4cloud.nl/2023/10/lenovo-bios-dead-of-autopilot-marker/
With the release of 23H2 (and copilot), you may want to filter these devices for specific policies. This post from Jitesh Kumar shows you how
https://www.anoopcnair.com/create-filter-rule-for-windows-11-23h2-intune/
You can now use Settings Catalog to configure AVD policies as covered here by Sander Rozemuller. Watch for the bug discovered at the end too
https://rozemuller.com/configure-avd-using-settings-catalog-automated/
This post and script from Niklas Rast improves on the branding options present in Intune to add further details the device
If you want to test Windows CoPilot, you need (amongst other things) to enable “Get the latest updates” in Windows update. This script from Niall Brady can sort this for you via a Remediation
https://www.niallbrady.com/2023/10/05/using-remediation-scripts-to-automate-a-setting-for-copilot/
You will also need the KB which Niall shows how to install as a Win32 app here
https://www.niallbrady.com/2023/10/05/deploying-kb5030310-to-devices-as-a-win32-app-for-copilot/
Video Content
Now onto the video content, starting with a look at using remote help for macOS from Andy Jones
We also have the next Intune.Training video from Adam Gross and Steven Hosking, covering iOS enrollment
This video from Chander Mani Pandey shows how to generate a Windows 11 compliance dashboard and then send email updates
A quick look at the new features in the 2309 release from Anoop Nair here
Also looking at the new features in 2309 are Nickolaj Andersen and Mattias Melkersen Kalvåg
If you missed the cloud management community live event, you can watch it here. This one covers Intune Automation featuring Pavel Mirochnitchenko
Learn how to install and configure Entra ID connect/AAD Connect with Alex de Jong
We have a second video from Alex demonstrating how to enrol and manage your Apple devices
Microsoft Content
Now for the Microsoft content with a known issue on some Samsung devices from the Intune support team
Atil Gurcan runs through configuring Windows MAM now it has gone GA here
That’s it for this week, have a great weekend
