Welcome to December, the weather is colder, but the holiday season is nearly upon us!
A congratulations to all of the new MVPs as well!
Community Content
We start this week with a guide on how to wipe corporate data on a MAM device from Nicklas Olsen
https://www.learnintune.net/selective-wipe-on-mam-for-windows/
Next, Joery Van den Bosch looks at the latest excellent tool from Merill Fernando which will make such a difference for consultants, the Zero Trust Workshop. Read on to learn all about it
Microsoft Zero Trust Workshop – The Assesment tool, an ideal tool to jumpstart your journey.
If you couldn’t make it to Ignite and are still working through the on-demand videos, here is a look at the key Intune and Windows news from Ola Ström
Rob Quickenden also looks at the Ignite announcements from the Windows and Devices side here
One of the Ignite sessions was from Johan Arwidmark covering how to leverage Intune for a smooth Windows 11 experience, you can find the content of the session here
Highlights from Upgrading to Windows 11 using Microsoft Intune – Tips and Tricks
For those of you managing developer devices, they are probably running WSL which could be an unmanaged risk. Follow these instructions from Peter van der Woude to use Intune for device compliance within the Linux subsystem
Working with device compliance for Windows Subsystem for Linux
Accessing the current users registry with Intune is tricky, User-based scripts work for some things, but there are times you need elevated permissions. Steve Weiner looks at your options here
https://www.getrubix.com/blog/touching-the-current-user-registry-hive-with-intune
For those of you managing Acer devices, some good news! The excellent driver tool from Maurice Daly is shortly being updated to support Acer devices
The iOS app for Entra Global Secure access is now in public preview. Learn how to give it a test in this post from Jan Mulder
Enroll Global Secure Access on iOS / IpadOS devices with Intune
Next, Kasper Johansen has part two of the guide to deploying applications using Intune and PSADT
Streamlining application management with PSADT and Microsoft Intune – Part 2
I know some of you are still using SCCM (that will always be it’s name) so here is a guide (part 1 anyway) from Mike Shellenberger to upgrade your machines to Win11 using all of the functionality it offers
Now for two troubleshooting guides from Rudy Ooms starting with the dreaded MDM Not Configured error in the Windows event logs
Troubleshooting Intune Enrollment: Solving the 0x80180031 MDM Not Configured Error
Rudy’s second post covers sync issues from Windows Attestation
Rudy also looks at the new Device Inventory properties
There has been a lot of excitement around Hotpatch for Windows 11, learn about it here from Mads Johansen
https://evil365.com/windows%2011/Hotpatch_ForWindows11/
Nick Benton has taken the risk based Windows 11 deployment a step further with this script to tag users and devices, now updated for 24H2
https://memv.ennbee.uk/posts/windows-11-risk-based-deployment-part5/
If you need to map drives to Azure shares, check out this post from Ofir Gavish
https://www.mscloudninja.com/pages/intunemappeddrives.html
Collections are very useful for accessing apps in the Google Play store. Learn about configuring them in this post from Rahul Jindal
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2024/12/configuring-collections-in-managed.html
A lot of excitement around device inventory including this post from Joost Gelijsteen
Understanding Device Inventory in Microsoft Intune: A New Era of Device Management
Torbjorn (Mr T-Bone) Granheden also covers the new functionality
Testing Autopilot works extremely well with VMs, learn more here from Gannon Novak
https://smbtothecloud.com/using-azure-vms-for-autopilot-testing/
Peter Klapwijk has expanded the excellent user termination script to now also support on-prem/hybrid identities
Revoke user access in case of an emergency with a single click – on-premises AD integration
Video Content
Now onto the video content, starting with a subject close to my heart, managing Intune with Graph in the first part of a new series from Steve Weiner
We also have part two looking at some things you can do now you know what Graph is
Part three looks at using the PowerShell module with Graph
Next, new MVP Chander Mani Pandey runs through configuring Hotpatch using Intune
Find out what is in the pipeline for Windows 365 Frontline in the latest Windows in the Cloud episode with Christiaan Brinkhoff and Scott Duffey
We have a look at the Frontline Shared mode experience in Windows 365 here with Ola Ström and Dominiek Verham
Microsoft Content
Now for this weeks Microsoft content with the Windows news from November in this article from Thomas Trombley
The issue with macOS failing to enable Filevault during setup has now been resolved as covered here by the Intune support team
That’s it from this week, have a great weekend!