The last newsletter of November, it only feels like yesterday I was publishing the last Christmas editions! Maybe in the last one of the year we can have a vote on the favourite new feature added to Intune in the last 12 months, feel free to add them in the comments, or send me an email!
Community Content
We start this week with the third part of the Windows 365 automation series from Niall Brady and Paul Winstanley, this one shows how to use PowerShell to provision a W365 machine
If you manage an environment with multiple tenants, you might need to interrogate compliance across them to allow access. Learn how to accomplish this with cross-tenant trust in this post from Jan Mulder
Next, Jon Towles looks at using Connected Cache to speed up Autopilot pre-provisioning
Microsoft Connected Cache Jump Starts Windows Autopilot Pre-Provisioning
If you are using MSIX App Attach in your AVD environment and want to migrate to App Attach, follow this guide from Johan Vanneuville
You may need to group devices, but automate it based on user attributes. Damien Van Robaeys covers how to do this using Azure Automation (including the required scripts) here
https://www.systanddeploy.com/2024/11/automatically-populate-device-group.html
Some Azure regions are starting to reach capacity which is only getting worse with more AI based resources. Joey Verlinden looks at the impact this may have on your environments here
Lessons learned: Azure Region capacity and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
For devices running multiple Edge profiles, you can configure automatic switching so all work content uses the work profile. Read more in this post from Peter van der Woude
Windows 365 frontline shared mode is an excellent option for many industries with shift staff using the same machine, especially when paired with a new Windows 365 Link machine. Dominiek Verham describes it in this post
This is one I see asked about a lot, how to deploy a scheduled task with Intune. Steve Weiner covers your options here
https://www.getrubix.com/blog/how-to-deploy-scheduled-tasks-with-intune
If you need to add Web apps to your Android enterprise devices, follow this guide from Rahul Jindal
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2024/11/when-web-apps-are-not-supported-on.html
Next, Joost Gelijsteen looks at the newly announced hotpatch for Windows 11 Enterprise
Hotpatch for Windows 11 Enterprise: Minimize Downtime, Maximize Productivity
If you are experiencing slow login times on W365 machines, have a look at this post from Niels Kok with a solution:
Video Content
Now for this weeks video content, starting with a look at managing Edge from the MS Admin centre with Steve Weiner
If like me you couldn’t get to Ignite this year (maybe next time), Steve has shared his excellent session here:
Steve also looks at the various Ignite announcements in this video featuring Joery Van den Bosch, Ugur Koc,James Robinson and Shady Khorshed
This video from Chander Mani Pandey runs through how to configure Entra Connect to hybrid join your existing on-prem devices
Microsoft Content
This weeks Microsoft content starts with a guide on installing store apps offline for those with government licensing from Chris Vetter
That’s it for this week, have a great weekend!