Intune Newsletter - 5th January 2024

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to the first Intune Newsletter of the year!

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We start this week with a look at MDE, how to ensure it is updated, how to monitor it and how to be notifiied if there are issues from Will Francillette

https://www.french365connection.co.uk/post/mde-keeping-your-antivirus-up-to-date-deep-dive

Next, Thomas Marcussen looks at the advantages of using Windows 365 for your legacy applications

Run Legacy Applications with Ease using Windows 365

https://blog.thomasmarcussen.com/run-legacy-applications-with-ease-using-windows-365/

If you have a lot of service principals in your tenant, this script from Niels Kok will quickly show you what permissions they all have

View API permissions for all Service Principals

https://www.nielskok.tech/entra-id/view-api-permissions-for-all-service-principals/

If you want to improve the speed of first login, learn how to disable the user ESP section and first login animations here with Niklas Rast

Optimizing Windows Autopilot Enrollment with Intune: Disabling First Logon Animation and User Assignments

https://niklasrast.com/2024/01/02/optimizing-windows-autopilot-enrollment-with-intune-disabling-first-logon-animation-and-user-assignments/

We have a second post from Niklas showing how to enable SSPR on the Windows lockscreen

Unlocking the Power of Self-Service Password Reset on Windows Lockscreen with Microsoft Intune

https://niklasrast.com/2024/01/04/unlocking-the-power-of-self-service-password-reset-on-windows-lockscreen-with-microsoft-intune/

Rudy Ooms has again been disassembling Windows and Intune, this time testing the new Support Approved option for EPM. Follow the instructions if you want to test this yourself, but only on a test device please!

EPM: And the “Flights” of Support Approved

https://call4cloud.nl/2024/01/epm-and-the-flights-of-support-approved/

This post from Oktay Sari looks at all of the available app deployment options within Intune for macOS devices

https://allthingscloud.blog/macos-app-deployment-with-microsoft-intune/

Niall Brady and Paul Winstanley have released the second part of their series covering automating Windows 365. This one looks at using the Graph X-Ray browser plugin

Automating Windows 365 part 2 – Using Graph X-Ray

https://www.niallbrady.com/2023/12/30/automating-windows-365-part-2-using-graph-x-ray/

Now we have two posts from Somesh Pathak starting with a look at how Platform SSO for macOS can enable on-demand account creation on login

https://www.intuneirl.com/taking-platform-sso-to-the-next-level-create-new-user-at-login/

The second post from Somesh is part 6 of the series on Apple device management, this one looking at Apple Identity and SSO

https://www.intuneirl.com/apple-identity-services-sso/

This post from Dominiek Verham shows how to use Defender for Endpoint to proctect your Windows 365 devices

https://techlab.blog/protecting-windows-365-cloud-pcs-with-microsoft-defender-for-endpoint/

Gannon Novak has released a useful script here to configure MAM for Android and iOS automatically!

Configure MAM for iOS/Android with one Script

https://smbtothecloud.com/configure-mam-for-ios-android-with-one-script/

Personal devices are a necessary evil, but you really need to make sure your data is protected. Follow this guide from Tom Machado to see how Conditional Access can help

Guard Your Corporate Data : Put an End to Unauthorized Access on Personal Devices with Conditional Access

https://poemtomdm.fr/2024/01/03/corporate-data-on-personal-devices-conditional-access-can-help-you/

If you are seeing errors when deploying firmware to Zebra devices, this post from Timmy Andersson has the answer!

Error code when trying to create a new Android FOTA deployment in Intune for Zebra devices

https://timmyit.com/2023/12/30/error-code-when-trying-to-create-a-new-android-fota-deployment-in-intune-for-zebra-devices/

Michael Meier has released the next part of the series on custom inventory data, this one making improvements to a script from Ugur Kok to add custom macOS inventory data into PowerBi using Function Apps

Custom MacOS Client Inventory Data – Reporting Series Part 5

https://mikemdm.de/2023/12/31/custom-macos-client-inventory-data-reporting-series-part-5/

Jeroen Burgerhout has released a remediation to remove the Dev Home app from Win 11 23H2

https://www.burgerhout.org/remove-the-dev-home-app-with-intune/

If you’re automating in a single tenant environment, using managed identities is the more secure way to authenticate. Learn how to configure and use them in this post from Torbjorn (Mr T-Bone) Granheden

https://www.tbone.se/2024/01/04/create-a-managed-identity-to-automate-intune-tasks/

Most of us use virtual machines for testing, but sometimes that can be a problem when you have device compliance policies, especially when linked to Conditional Access. If this sounds familiar, this post from Joey Verlinden should help!

https://www.joeyverlinden.com/device-compliance-for-your-virtual-machines/

Next, Peter Klapwijk digs into an error found when configuring Entra ID Connect and how to resolve it

Azure AD Connect setup error

https://www.inthecloud247.com/azure-ad-connect-setup-error/

Jorge Suarez has released a PowerShell script to help with app detection for Intune, worth checking out!

https://www.jorgeasaur.us/streamlining-application-detection-in-intune-and-mecm-with-powershell/

Video Content

We start the video content this week with two exclusives from Andy Malone and special guest Jeremy Chapman. The first looks at the new features coming to Intune