Intune Newsletter – 25th October 2024

A Halloween special edition, hopefully by this time next week the sugar high will have finished for those of you with children…

I’m also using a new emailing system for this one so fingers crossed that works!

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We start this week with a spookily good script from Jannik Reinhard to quickly convert a group from devices to primary user or user to device

Converting Device Groups to User Groups (and Vice Versa) Using Microsoft Graph API

https://jannikreinhard.com/2024/10/22/converting-device-groups-to-user-groups-and-vice-versa-using-microsoft-graph-api/

If you’re using Universal Print, but have multiple printers, configuring them is a lot of UI clicking. Fortunately Sander Rozemuller has a script here to create the policies for you

https://www.rozemuller.com/create-intune-configuration-for-universal-print-automated

PSADT is a great way to standardise your app deployments and gives loads of extra features, especially with the new release! For those looking to get started, check out this from Kasper Johansen

Streamlining application management with PSADT and Microsoft Intune – Part 1

https://kasperjohansen.net/index.php/2024/10/21/streamlining-application-management-with-psadt-and-microsoft-intune-part-1/

Next, learn how to enable Optional updates via Intune CSP in this post from Peter van der Woude

Enabling optional Windows updates

https://petervanderwoude.nl/post/enabling-optional-windows-updates/

I think we can all agree that Intune reporting still isn’t quite where we want it to be. To quickly report on macOS Filevault status, check out this script from Maxime Guillemin

https://cloudflow.be/intune-macos-filevault-report/

Whilst WDAC is here, many still prefer using Applocker (me included) for its ease of use. Configuring the Intune policies can be a bit of a headache though. To help you along, have a read of this post and grab the script from Nick Benton

https://memv.ennbee.uk/posts/windows-applocker-intune

Learn about all of the new Intune settings in the 2410 release here with James Robinson

https://skiptotheendpoint.co.uk/settings-rundown/intune-settings-rundown-2410

Configure phishing resistant MFA for your macOS devices by following this guide from Rahul Jindal

https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2024/10/enabling-phishing-resistant-mfa-on.html

On the subject of macOS, if you’re running Jamf Pro and want to link to Intune and Entra for use with compliance and conditional access, try this guide from Somesh Pathak

Jamf Pro + Intune: A Powerful Duo for Device Compliance

https://intuneirl.com/jamf-pro-intune-a-powerful-duo-for-device-compliance/

Fairly under-used, but you can do limited Linux management with Intune, it’s useful for compliance if nothing else. Michael Meier covers how to enrol an Ubuntu device here

Enroll Ubuntu Linux devices in Intune

https://mikemdm.de/2024/10/20/enroll-ubuntu-linux-devices-in-intune/

There is a known issue with FileVault during setup assistant. The workaround is covered in this post from Joery Van den Bosch

Enable Filevault during setup assistant on macOS not working? – It works great, seriously!

https://intunestuff.com/2024/10/21/get-filevault-working/

Next, Rudy Ooms digs into the 0x80280009 Autopilot error

Autopilot Error 0x80280009: TPM Attestation. What is going on?

https://call4cloud.nl/autopilot-0x80280009-tpm-attestation-virtual-machine/

Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise and Education is going into preview next week. Find out how this will reduce your traffic in this post from Mike Shellenberger

My Experience Deploying Microsoft Connected Cache Enterprise and Education (Standalone) for the First Time!

https://mjshellenberger.com/2024/10/24/my-experience-deploying-microsoft-connected-cache-enterprise-and-education-standalone-for-the-first-time/

We have a new script from Ugur Koc to quickly create macOS Intune applications, this will take over the whole process for you!

https://github.com/ugurkocde/IntuneBrew

Video Content

Now onto the spooktacular video content, starting with the latest podcast episode from Shady Khorshed discussing Copilot for security with Jannik Reinhard