Intune Newsletter – 6th September 2024

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

https://petervanderwoude.nl/post/understanding-the-pause-config-refresh-remote-action-for-windows-devices/


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

https://inthecloud247.com/microsoft-epm-run-with-elevated-access-is-missing-from-the-right-click-menu/


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

https://www.jorgeasaur.us/syncing-abm-and-vpp-tokens-with-intune-a-powershell-script-for-the-lazy-admin


If you want to skip the consent pop-up on W365 and AVD machines, follow this guide from Michael Meier

https://mikemdm.de/2024/09/01/prevent-sign-in-consent-prompt-on-avd-or-windows-365-single-sign-on-sso/


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

https://blog.interian.be/2024/09/05/secure-your-intune-environment-with-multi-admin-approval-everything-you-need-to-know/


Video Content

Now onto the video content, starting with a look at Android kiosk configuration from Shady Khorshed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-4EjAESwKw


Next, Chander Mani Pandey runs through creating a report of discovered apps with PowerShell and Graph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThuGWtHz4BE


Steve Weiner looks at creating Teams messages from EPM approval requests based on a post featured last week from Jose Schenardie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmqgbgoPHps

Steve also looks at how you can use PowerBI for Intune reporting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdqvBKJV7kc

Steve has a third video this week running through troubleshooting steps for Autopilot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lYRPmVaJtU


We also have a first video from Shehan Perera‘s new YouTube channel (worth a subscribe), this one looks at device filters within Intune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQR8-H81pG4&t=15s


That’s it for this week, have a fabulous weekend

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