Intune Newsletter – 6th December 2024

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

Microsoft Ignite 2024 Recap


Rob Quickenden also looks at the Ignite announcements from the Windows and Devices side here

Windows and Devices – Summary of Ignite Announcements


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

Acer Support Coming – Driver Automation


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

Upgrade to Windows 11 in the Enterprise Series – Part I


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

The 0x80072F9A We Start From

Rudy also looks at the new Device Inventory properties

Life is like a box of 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

Introducing the new Device Inventory for Windows in Intune


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

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-news-you-can-use-november-2024/4336665


The issue with macOS failing to enable Filevault during setup has now been resolved as covered here by the Intune support team

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/IntuneCustomerSuccess/resolved—known-issue-filevault-failing-to-enable-on-macos-devices-during-setup/4180523


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

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