Hello and welcome, I’ve seen a lot of new sign-ups this week so a special welcome to anyone reading this for the first time!
Next week I’m off to the MVP summit at Microsoft HQ so expect the newsletter to be at a slightly different time, I’m terrible at timezones so it could be at any point during the day 🙂
Now onto the reason you’re here, the Intune content
Community Content
We start this week with a useful Logic App flow to automatically approve and provision a Windows 365 machine after a user requests it and it’s approved by a manager from Peter Klapwijk
If you’re using Device Query in Intune, this post from Steve Weiner will help with your more complex queries covering how to use the Join command
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/advanced-intune-device-query-joining-across-steven-weiner-csgie/
Security Copilot keeps improving for Intune. If you haven’t yet tried it, this guide from Michael Meier will get you up and running, just watch your costs!
If you want to control the OS versions in your estate, but without having to manually update policies every time a new version is released, check out this automation from Sander Rozemuller
https://www.rozemuller.com/governing-os-versions-in-microsoft-intune-automated/
The GPO migration tool is a useful feature, but must be used carefully to avoid bringing technical debt to your shiny new tenant. Dustin Gullett covers it’s usage here
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gpo-migrations-love-story-kind-dustin-gullett-rzjbc
If you want to learn more about how declarative device management works and the potential it brings to Intune, this deep dive from Rudy Ooms is worth reading
Another feature we are waiting for, Declared Configuration for keeping your policies in-check. Learn more here from Torbjorn (Mr T-Bone) Granheden
If you want to automate scope tags based on region, this second post and script is well worth looking at:
Country based Intune Scope Tags with PowerShell or Azure Automation
One of my “big 3” things to check when moving an organization to Intune (Wireless, File Shares, Printing), Jon Towles looks at how to use RADIUSaaS for your wireless authentication on cloud native devices
Extending Cloud Native PC Wireless Authentication to Cloud RADIUS
With QR code authentication now available in Entra, Peter van der Woude looks at how you can use this to login to apps on your Android shared devices
Using a QR code to easily sign in to apps on shared Android devices
If you need multiple Autopilot profiles, this script from Amir Sayes will help you automate the process
Automating Autopilot Profile Creation and Assignments Using PowerShell Graph API for Intune
If you’re having trouble with slow Windows 365 logins and happen to be using WDAC, Niels Kok has a fix here for you
Next, Sebastian F. Markdanner continues the series on securing your Business Premium licensed users and devices, this one looking at conditional access policies
https://www.chanceofsecurity.com/post/securing-microsoft-business-premium-part-03-authorization
Video Content
Now onto the video content, starting with a look at the new features and functionality in Intune 2502 release with Nickolaj Andersen and Peter van der Woude
Andy Jones has released an exciting new onboarding/offboarding tool called IntuneHRFlow to automate your full onboarding process across platforms. Learn all about it here and check how it works in the second video. I’m looking forward to giving this a try!
Dean Ellerby looks at Eido here and checks if it fills in the Intune reporting gaps
Next, Steve Weiner looks at how to use the Winget Autoupdate application to keep your apps updated for free
Microsoft Content
Now onto this weeks Microsoft content, starting with a look at the new enrollment policy experience for iOS and iPadOS devices from Anya NovichevaÂ
We also have the all important, what’s new in Intune
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/fundamentals/whats-new
That’s it for this week, have a great weekend and if you’re travelling to MVP summit, I’ll see you there!