Happy Friday 13th which is especially lucky for all of you because you have this wonderful newsletter to enjoy!
If you have Graph automations, make sure you check out the Microsoft announcement at the bottom, it’s an important one!
Community Content
We start this week with a look at how Connected Cache for Enterprise works as well as how to configure it from Jeroen Burgerhout
https://www.burgerhout.org/deploy-smarter-microsoft-connected-cache-for-enterprise/
For those of you using SCCM, we have the second part of the series from Mike Shellenberger. This one covers your options for in-place upgrades
Most tenants will have been onboarded into Hardware Inventory now, find out more about the new feature here from Michael Meier
Joery Van den Bosch also runs through configuring Device Inventory here
A second post from Joery this week, a full step by step guide to implementing Autopatch and Hotpatch
How to setup Windows Autopatch and enable Hotpatch – The Complete Step by Step guide
Joery also looks at the different ways to block the new Outlook app with Intune
If you want to know exactly what’s happening underneath Device Inventory, read this deep-dive from Rudy Ooms
Rudy also looks at how Device Inventory uses the MMP-C functionality here
How Device Inventory is Delivered: From MMP-C to Resource Explorer
Jon Towles also looks at device inventory here
If you prefer text to video content, Steve Weiner has a written version of the Graph getting started guide here
https://www.getrubix.com/blog/microsoft-graph-a-beginners-guide-to-apis-endpoints-and-urls
Learn how to enable Hotpatch for Windows 11 Enterprise here with Peter van der Woude
Onboarding Android devices into MDE isn’t quite as zero-touch as the device enrollment itself. For a “low touch” option, check out this post from Nick Benton
https://memv.ennbee.uk/posts/android-enterprise-defender-onboarding/
Next, Sander Rozemuller runs through the excellent Intune Assignments tool and what it can do
https://www.rozemuller.com/get-intune-assignments-overview-and-more/
We have an excellent selection of scripts apps and tools in this repo from Brandon Miller-Mumford
https://github.com/bbmumford/Intune-Toolkit
Admin protection was announced at Ignite to secure elevated accounts. Learn more about it in this post from Jörgen Nilsson
Read more about the new Windows 365 Link device in this post from Ola Ström
Dieter Kempeneers also looks at Windows 365 link here
Windows 365 Link: a new compact device for a modern workplace
If you’re managing macOS devices with JAMF, Somesh Pathak has made an excellent migration tool here to migrate them to Intune
https://github.com/pathaksomesh06/MDM-Migrator
It’s the time of the year where some companies increase headcount temporarily to cope with seasonal demand. Learn how Windows 365 frontline shared can help in this post from Florian Salzmann
https://scloud.work/windows-365-frontline-shared-cloud-pc/
PIM is a feature of Entra I find is often underused. Niklas Tinner runs through the benefits here
Have you ever wondered how Windows CSPs work (and the music James was listening to in 2010)? Dive in and find out in the first of a new series from James Robinson.
https://skiptotheendpoint.co.uk/windows-csp-a-tale-of-magic-intrigue-and-betrayal-part-1/
There are some situations where you want to restrict web access to only allowed URLs rather than blocking only unwanted sites. If this is something you need, Joey Verlinden has you covered
Block and whitelist specific URL in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome
Next, Peter Klapwijk troubleshoots an unusual error with Kerberos cloud trust
Video Content
Now onto the video content starting with two videos from Chander Mani Pandey starting with a look at Windows 11 hotpatch
The second video covers how to migrate your co-managed workloads when moving to cloud native device management
A lot of excitement around device inventory. For a look at it visually, watch this video from Andrew Jones
Steve Weiner also looks at device inventory in this video and how to configure it
Following on and after resolving the issue, Steve then looks into it further here
Steve also extends the Graph series, this one looking at daily tasks that can be automated
Steve has had a busy week, we also have part 5 of the Graph series, this one showing how to create objects
Learn about all of the features in 2410 and 2411 releases with Mattias Melkersen Kalvåg and Peter van der Woude
Now we have the Technical Takeoff with a selection of videos, the first one looking at all of the Windows security options in Win11
This video covers update management for Windows now it’s all unified under the same team.
Now for an AMA on Windows hotpatch
This video is a feedback session on new feature requests around Autopatch and others.
And it wouldn’t be a Microsoft event without AI, this one covers Copilot and AI PCs.
Microsoft Content
A very important message from Microsoft this week with an update to the beta Graph APIs when dealing with security policies. Make sure you update your scripts (that’s a fun job for me…). Read more here from Julia Idaewor here
That’s it for this week, have a great weekend!