You can tell holiday season is over, it’s a busy one this week! Enjoy this array of exciting content…
Community Content
We start this week with a look at all things Autopatch from Lewis Barry, from setting up to management including a very useful remediation script
https://conditionalaccess.uk/my-windows-autopatch-experience/
If you’ve wondered what happens when you click the button to pause config refresh on a client device, have a read of this post from Peter van der Woude
Endpoint Analytics are a useful and often under-used tool in Intune to find out exactly what’s happening at the machine side and enables you to be more pro-active when dealing with end-user issues rather than waiting for them to complain. Learn how to set up and use it in this post from Ola Ström
https://www.olastrom.com/2024/improving-decision-making-with-intune-advanced-analytics-data
If you find your EPM extension is missing from the right click menu, Peter Klapwijk has a fix here
Now for two posts from Joery Van den Bosch, starting with the second part of the excellent series on MAM, this one looks at Android devices (check out part 1 for iOS)
https://intunestuff.com/2024/09/02/how-to-setup-mam-part-2/
The second post runs through how to identify which apps are failing in ESP
https://intunestuff.com/2024/09/04/identify-failed-apps-during-an-autopilot-installation/
For those of you using a CMG with SCCM and need to get your machines calling back to base, check out this post from Nick Benton
https://memv.ennbee.uk/posts/configmgr-client-install-cmg
Next, Rudy Ooms looks at two new features added to Endpoint analytics to monitor CPU and memory spikes on your devices
https://call4cloud.nl/2024/08/resource-performance-cpu-spike-ram-spike/
If you’re having issues with Device Query and EPM Support approved on optimized W365 machines, Rudy has a fix for you here
https://call4cloud.nl/2024/09/epm-device-query-broken-cloud-pc/
For Lenovo users, this first part of a new series from Damien Van Robaeys shows how to grab warranty status from your devices with future posts creating a dashboard to list the information
https://www.systanddeploy.com/2024/08/using-powershell-to-know-if-lenovo.html
If your NPS needs a device certificate and your devices are cloud native, check out this work-around from Katy Nicholson
https://katystech.blog/mem/namemapping-aadd-event-task
Sometimes you need to quickly sync your Apple tokens, but if you’re in a rush, navigating via the console is time-consuming! Fortunately Jorge Suarez has a script here to do the hard work for you
If you want to skip the consent pop-up on W365 and AVD machines, follow this guide from Michael Meier
With the imminent MFA enforcement on admin portals, you may wish to proactively see how is going to have issues. This post from Rahul Jindal will create a log analytics dashboard from the sign-in logs
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2024/09/using-log-analytics-to-identify.html
Some of you may still need the PC name on the wallpaper and if you’re finding bginfo a bit too limiting, have a look at this guide from Brady Widener
https://www.edtechirl.com/p/deploying-desktopinfo-using-microsoft
If you absolutely must do hybrid joined devices, Jon Towles has an excellent guide here
https://mobile-jon.com/2024/09/02/entra-hybrid-join-not-dead-yet/
Learn how to use an app reg to add your Autopilot hardware hashes without requiring your IT staff access to Intune functions here with Jóhannes Geir Kristjánsson
https://johannesblog.com/2024/09/04/enrolling-devices-to-autopilot-using-a-app-registration/
Did you know you can manage PowerShell settings with Intune? If you didn’t, this post from Harm Veenstra has all you need to know
https://powershellisfun.com/2024/09/05/configuring-powershell-settings-using-intune-or-group-policy/
If you want to use Palo Alto connect with iOS devices, check out this guide from Niels Kok
https://www.nielskok.tech/intune/palo-alto-global-protect-vpn-via-intune-with-edge-browser/
Next, Joost Gelijsteen has a solution for alerting and approving EPM requests with a logic app
https://joostgelijsteen.com/get-an-epm-elevation-request-notification/
Learn about the largely underused multi-admin approval in this post from Driek Desmet
Video Content
Now onto the video content, starting with a look at Android kiosk configuration from Shady Khorshed
Next, Chander Mani Pandey runs through creating a report of discovered apps with PowerShell and Graph
Steve Weiner looks at creating Teams messages from EPM approval requests based on a post featured last week from Jose Schenardie
Steve also looks at how you can use PowerBI for Intune reporting
Steve has a third video this week running through troubleshooting steps for Autopilot
We also have a first video from Shehan Perera‘s new YouTube channel (worth a subscribe), this one looks at device filters within Intune
That’s it for this week, have a fabulous weekend