July is nearly upon us and hopefully I will get to see some of you at the Workplace Ninjas UK event next week!
Whilst I try and avoid including my own work in this newsletter, I have recently released a suite of tools for Intune, you may find them useful – https://euctoolbox.com
Holiday season is nearly upon us, I will attempt to keep the newsletter going, but there might be one or two with just a load of links if I’m busy enjoying the outside world…
Community Content
We start this week with a look at a critical part of Autopilot V2, Enrollment Time Grouping in this post from Peter van der Woude
https://www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/understanding-enrollment-time-grouping
Next, Nick Benton and Jonathan Fallis continue the dive into CIS benchmarks, this one looking at the Windows 11 settings and how they may impact Autopilot deployments
https://memv.ennbee.uk/posts/windows-cis-patching-gaps-part2
Finding the best size machine for W365 can be complicated, over-size it and you’re wasting money, too low and the experience isn’t going to be great. Fortunately Dieter Kempeneers has a guide here to help
https://kempeneers.eu/2024/06/22/guide-on-choosing-the-right-cloudpc-size
If you want to set a custom URL for AVD, check out this web app from Jeroen Burgerhout
https://www.burgerhout.org/redirect-avd-url-with-a-static-web-app
Learn about Windows 365 boot, including some things to watch for in this post from Niall Brady
https://www.niallbrady.com/2024/06/23/getting-more-out-of-windows-365-windows-365-boot
Niall also looks at the GPU functionality recently added to Windows 365 here
If you are managing macOS, Rahul Jindal has a guide here to secure your home folders (and stop MDE from nagging about it)
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2024/06/secure-home-folders-in-macos-using.html
A new EU ruling means that you can install apps onto iOS devices using stores other than the official App Store. If you don’t want this in your environment, Jan Mulder shows how to block it via Intune
https://wolkenman.wordpress.com/2024/06/22/manage-web-distribution-app-installation-for-eu-users
If you’re having issues updating W365 machines from W1121H2 to 22H2, it could be a guest profile. Find the fix here from Mads Johansen
https://evil365.com/windows%2011/Windows365Device_Stuck_Windows11-21H2
Next, Joost Gelijsteen runs through some steps you can take to protect your tenant from unwanted devices enrolling
https://joostgelijsteen.com/intune-mdm-hardening
A must read post this week from Maurice Daly. Delivery Optimization is crucial for saving bandwidth and speeding up deployments, but can be a pain to manage. This deep dive has you covered!
https://msendpointmgr.com/2024/06/20/delivery-optimization-troubleshooting-reporting
For those using ZScaler, this guide from Bruce Sa and Maurice will prove to be invaluable!
https://msendpointmgr.com/2024/06/27/delivery-optimization-zscaler-a-how-to-guide
Exciting news for EPM users, it can now elevate MSI and PS1 files, find out more in this post from Rudy Ooms
Next, Curtis Cannon looks at the different script options available with Intune and how each behaves
https://traversecloud.co.uk/using-powershell-scripts-in-microsoft-intune
If you don’t explore outside the Intune console, you may never have heard of Cloud update for M365 apps. If you want to learn more, check out this post from Peter Klapwijk
https://inthecloud247.com/manage-microsoft-365-apps-updates-with-cloud-update
Joey Verlinden has updated the CA framework tool with some new and updated policies
https://www.joeyverlinden.com/conditional-access-framework-2
If you want to shift your AVD machines from old Teams to new Teams, check out this script from Gannon Novak
https://smbtothecloud.com/moving-from-classic-to-new-teams-on-avd-and-a-script-to-automate-it
Next, Jon Towles looks at using TAP for passwordless user onboarding
Whilst Intune doesn’t natively support PowerShell 7, Michael Niehaus has a solution here
https://oofhours.com/2024/06/27/using-powershell-7-as-a-replacement-for-windows-powershell-5-1
Video Content
Now for the video content, starting with a look at how to remove the old Teams client during Intune from Steve Weiner
Steve also covers how to use MAM for your unmanaged devices
Steve’s third video covers getting started with Conditional Access
Microsoft Content
Starting the Microsoft content this week we have Scott Sawyer with a look at what’s new in the 2406 release
That’s it for this week, have a great weekend!