Intune Newsletter – 8th November 2024

Welcome to this weeks exciting selection of Intune news to guide you into the weekend

Community Content

We start this week with the latest installment of Steve Weiner‘s excellent getting started guide, this one covering something I can’t tell people enough, stop dragging legacy config into new environments!!

https://www.getrubix.com/blog/getting-started-with-intune-part-4-dont-bring-your-garbage-to-the-cloud

And followed bby part 5 looking at the deployment paths

https://www.getrubix.com/blog/getting-started-with-intune-part-5-two-paths


For those of you managing macOS devices, this script from Prajwal Desai will help add custom attributes based on device information

How to Create Custom Attributes for macOS using Intune


Next, Johan Vanneuville continues looking at the new session host update functionality, this time to deploy and update hosts with it configured

Session host update Part 2: Deploy and update a host pool and session hosts


Have you ever wondered what happens to devices in Intune when the device clean-up rule kicks in?  Find out in this post from Simon Skotheimsvik

Intune Cleaned Out A Device – Now What?


If you need to switch your Android devices from Personal to Corporate, check out this script from Rahul Jindal

https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2024/11/corporate-identifiers-and-android-byo.html


If you’re using Enterprise App Management, Peter van der Woude runs through how to update your apps here

Updating Enterprise App Catalog apps


Get an early look at the new features and appearance of Windows Hello in this post from Rob Quickenden

Windows Hello is getting a much welcomed face-lift


Next, Rudy Ooms has found a potential cause for subscription activation issues and of course has included a script to fix the issue

https://call4cloud.nl/subscription-activation-fix-work-school-accounts/


Sebastian F. Markdanner continues the series on Conditional Access, wrapping everything up and including some excellent starting policies

https://www.chanceofsecurity.com/post/wrapping-up-conditional-access


With the release of Apple Intelligence, Somesh Pathak looks at what it is and how you can manage it with Intune

Apple Hands Over the Keys: IT Takes Control of Intelligence


Ugur Koc also looks at how to use Intune to disable Apple Intelligence here

Manage Apple Intelligence on macOS with Intune


Next, Jon Towles digs into passkeys for iOS to learn exactly what’s happening inside

Deep Dive into Microsoft Authenticator Passkeys for iOS


Cloud PKI is a useful addition to the Intune Suite.  Follow this guide from Mike Shellenberger to learn how to deploy your certificates using it

Configure Microsoft Cloud PKI: A Step-by-Step Guide


If you are not using FSLogix with AVD and are seeing device not logging off idle sessions, there is a workaround here from Joey Verlinden

AVD Sessionhosts not executing “Set time limit for disconnected sessions”.


For those of you coming from an SCCM background, this post from John Marcum covers how to create query based collections in Intune with Power Automate and BI

https://powerstacks.com/how-to-create-query-based-collections-in-intune/


If you’re managing Lenovo devices, check out this excellent new PowerShell module from Philip Jorgensen

https://docs.lenovocdrt.com/guides/lcsm/lcsm_top/


Video Content

Now for the video content, starting with the latest podcast from Shady Khorshed, featuring me discussing a spectacular set of Intune companion applications which you should definitely be using 🙂


This video from Craig Camacho covers configuring Autopilot Device Prep, configuring and the end-user experience


Now for three videos from Steve Weiner, the first covering setting up Autopatch in your tenant

Win11 24H2 introduced some welcome additions to Windows LAPS.  Steve’s second video runs through what they are and how to configure them

Steve also runs through how to document your conditional access policies


Next, we have a discussion around Autopilot Device Prep with Steve and Dean Ellerby


Now for the latest intune.training episode with Steven Hosking and Adam Gross looking at restricted devices, kiosk mode etc.


If you’re licensed for Intune Suite and using EPM, this video from Vaishnav K is worth a watch


Microsoft Content

And onto this weeks Microsoft content with a reminder that custom profiles will no longer be supported on personally-owned work-profile devices from the Intune Support Team

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/intunecustomersuccess/intune-ending-support-for-custom-profiles-for-personally-owned-work-profile-devi/4287414


That’s it for this week, have a great weekend!

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