The last newsletter of August and for many the start of the school routine. Enjoy the last weekend of the school holidays with this weeks Intune news.
Community Content
We start this week with the first part of a new series from Joery Van den Bosch looking at MAM configuration, starting with your iOS devices
https://intunestuff.com/2024/08/27/how-to-setup-mam-part-1/
If you’re stuck with Chrome, but want to be able to use Device Signals in Conditional Access, check out this post from Gannon Novak
https://smbtothecloud.com/using-chrome-with-intune-conditional-access-device-signals/
Next, Rudy Ooms has attempted to pre-provision a Windows Home device. If you want to understand exactly what’s happening during ESP, read on…
https://call4cloud.nl/2024/08/foouser-autopilot-preprovisoning-fake-user/
Rudy also looks at the new functionality to add EPM rules based on requests
https://call4cloud.nl/2024/08/create-epm-elevation-rules-elevation-request/
Jan Mulder continues looking at Office policies, this time building a policy set for Outlook
https://wolkenman.wordpress.com/2024/08/26/policies-for-office-apps-outlook-policy-set/
You can now use multi-admin approval for iOS or Android apps as covered here in Jan’s second post
https://wolkenman.wordpress.com/2024/08/28/multi-admin-approval-for-non-windows-apps/
We now have two posts from Eswar Koneti, the first with a useful script to tell you where Windows Update Workloads are configured on a device
The second post from Eswar runs through troubleshooting steps when a device reports it is already setup in another organization
If you are having trouble creating an AVD Host Pool token, Niels Kok has a fix here
https://www.nielskok.tech/azure-virtual-desktop/cant-create-avd-hostpooltoken/
Next, Somesh Pathak takes an in-depth look at the new macOS features in the 2408 Intune build
https://www.intuneirl.com/microsoft-intune-august-2408-release-delivering-on-wwdc-2024-promises
On a similar note, James Robinson covers the new settings added to Settings Catalog
https://skiptotheendpoint.co.uk/intune-settings-rundown-2024-08-26
An exciting change which slipped under the radar for many. Win32 installs are now logged into their own log file, learn more in this post from Jon Towles
https://mobile-jon.com/2024/08/26/intune-win32-app-logging-one-log-to-rule-them-all/
Michael Meier has created another excellent companion app for your admins on the move. This one quickly allows users to approve or deny EPM requests
https://mikemdm.de/2024/08/25/intune-endpoint-privilege-management-companion/
MFA is coming to admin portals near you. Start planning for it now to avoid any issues in October. Shehan Perera has an excellent guide to get you started here
https://emsroute.com/2024/08/24/mandatory-mfa-enforcements-01/
Whilst preparing for MFA, now is a good time to also switch to passkeys as covered here by Simon Skotheimsvik
https://skotheimsvik.no/how-to-use-passkey-in-authenticator-a-tutorial
EPM is great, but you need to make sure you look out for any elevation requests. To have them appear in Teams, follow this post from Peter Klapwijk
https://inthecloud247.com/get-notified-of-new-microsoft-epm-elevation-requests/
Jose Schenardie also has a way of alerting EPM requests here, including a quick Azure deployment button
https://intune.tech/2024/08/28/Notifications-for-epm-elevation-requests.html
For those of you in education, Katy Nicholson shows how to manage Promethean Android devices here
https://katystech.blog/mem/promethean-ops
If you are finding newly added session hosts are not showing in the host pool, check out this post from Gannon Novak
https://smbtothecloud.com/resolving-a-new-avd-session-host-missing-from-the-host-pool/
Video Content
Now onto the video content, starting with the first podcast from Shady Khorshed, featuring Somesh Pathak and discussing the macOS Support Assistant
Next, Steve Weiner looks at the difference between an Entra device and an Intune device (and their pesky different IDs!)
Steve also has the fourth part of the app packaging series, this one covers updating existing apps
Dean Ellerby looks at the new additions to Win11 24H2 here (minus CoPilot)
The latest AMA is here from Windows in the Cloud covering the Windows app with Christian Montoya, Hilary Braun and Joydeep Mukherjee
Microsoft Content
We start the Microsoft content this week with the all important look at what’s new in 2408 from Scott Sawyer
That’s everything for this week, have an amazing weekend!