Intune Newsletter – 7th March 2025

I’m back home after an exciting trip to Copenhagen to visit the office and then Experts Live to launch our latest product!  Thanks to the organizers and speakers for such a great event.

It’s also been a busy week for Intune content so lets get started…


Community Content

We start this week with a couple of exciting announcements from Lenovo.  The first is from Philip Jorgensen and looks at how you can use PowerShell with Lenovo Commercial Vantage with the SU helper tool

https://blog.lenovocdrt.com/su-helper-use-cases-in-a-modern-world


If you’re using MDT, there is a fix here for detecting the enclosure type from Thad Lawson 

https://blog.lenovocdrt.com/mdt-no-longer-detects-enclosure-correctly


If you are using macOS and hitting the authentication loop with phishing resistant authentication, check out this post from Rahul Jindal

https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2025/03/passkeys-for-macos-and-addressing.html


Next, Roy Klooster has a very useful PowerShell script for configuring language packs

https://rksolutions.nl/language-packs-i-just-told-my-computer-to-figure-it-out-apparently-it-did/


For those of you with an Asus NUC, learn how to configure the BIOS using PowerShell here with Damien Van Robaeys

https://www.systanddeploy.com/2025/03/managing-bios-settings-on-asus-nuc.html


Automate your user onboarding in this post from Dustin Gullett

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/jedis-guide-automating-onboarding-lifecycle-workflows-dustin-gullett-rm9mc/


Reduce your Windows 365 costs by scheduling resizes during maintenance windows when the machines are not in use.  You can even use Graph to do it!  Learn more here from Aresh Sarkari

Cloud PC Maintenance Windows: Scheduling Resize Operations for Maximum Efficiency + Bonus Microsoft Graph Powershell way of implementation


Learn how to use the new Device Query functionality for multiple devices here from Torbjorn (Mr T-Bone) Granheden

Brand new: Device Query for Multiple Devices in Intune


Peter van der Woude also runs through the functionality here

Understanding Device query for multiple devices


As does Michael Meier, it’s a popular addition!

Intune Device Query now allows queries for multiple devices as part of Advanced Analytics


If your macOS PUA policies keep changing the settings, this post from Oktay Sari is well worth reading

https://allthingscloud.blog/tracking-microsoft-defender-pua-policy-changes-with-intune-custom-attributes/


Next, Gannon Novak has a script to quickly add all 24H2 baselines into your tenant

https://smbtothecloud.com/import-all-24h2-security-baseline-policies-with-a-script/


WHfB can be tricky to troubleshoot, fortunately Eswar Koneti has a guide here

Troubleshooting Windows Hello for Business PIN Reset Issues – Something went wrong


Peter Rausch has an excellent guide for phased deployments of all aspects of Intune in large environments

https://www.peterrausch.nl/2025/03/how-to-do-phased-deployments-in-cloud.html


If you want to see the key points from the tech takeoff (more in the Microsoft section below), Niklas Tinner has you covered here

https://www.oceanleaf.ch/technical-takeoff-2025/


To reduce the permanent nature of “God mode” in Entra, check out this post from Sebastian F. Markdanner

https://www.chanceofsecurity.com/post/restrict-elevated-access-microsoft-entra-logic-app


Video Content

Onto the video content with the first of a two-part series from Craig Camacho looking at handling your Windows update rings


Next, Steve Weiner runs through migrating from your physical machines to Windows 365 and how to correctly size them.


Niklas Tinner and Florian Salzmann cover their highlights of Tech Takeoff here


Microsoft Content

We have a lof of Microsoft content this week including the Tech Takeoff.  If you haven’t seen these videos, make sure you watch them (too many to include here individually)

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/event/techcommunitylive/microsoft-technical-takeoff-windows–intune/4304008


A new series from Dan Andersen covering managing your frontline workers with Intune

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/IntuneCustomerSuccess/from-the-frontlines-frontline-worker-management-with-microsoft-intune/4387449


Catarina Rodrigues also looks at frontline workers, in this case the critical nurses on their nurses station machines

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/IntuneCustomerSuccess/from-the-frontlines-revolutionizing-healthcare-workers-experience/4387461


Doug Coombs looks at the new Windows 365 disaster recovery functionality here (in preview)

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-365-disaster-recovery-plus-extends-cloud-pc-resilience/ba-p/4387492


The all-important What’s New in Intune 2502, always worth reading!!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune-service/fundamentals/whats-new


Learn how connected cache can help optimize your bandwidth and speed up deployments from Andy Rivas

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/optimize-windows-autopilot-bandwidth-use-with-connected-cache/ba-p/4389056


Some excellent news for smaller businesses, you can now add an E5 Security to Business Premium!  Learn more here from Oke Bamgbose

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365businessblog/microsoft-365-e5-security-is-now-available-as-an-add-on-to-microsoft-365-busines/4388436


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

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