Welcome to another exciting week of Intune content, this time coming to you direct from the Microsoft HQ in Redmond where I’m attending the MVP summit with many of the greatest (and most dynamic) minds in Intune and the incredible product teams building it all.
Whilst I can’t share anything from the summit itself, fortunately you still have the content here to enjoy
Community Content
We start this week with a look at the excellent new employee onboarding/offboarding tool IntuneHRFlow from Andy Jones. If you haven’t yet tried it, I would definitely suggest doing so!
Whilst not strictly Intune related, with the improvements in macOS management, you may find your userbase wants to start shifting from Windows to macOS. These useful productivity tools will make their experience better. Find out more here with Niels Kok
Michael Frank looks at all of the new LAPS functionality in the latest Windows release here and how to configure the settings with a Custom OMA-URI policy whilst we wait for them to appear in Settings Catalog
https://michaelsendpoint.com/intune/laps.html
The first in a new series of posts from Jan Mulder covering using Cloud PKI. This one covers how to deploy an S/MIME email certificate
For those of you on non-Enterprise SKU, this post from Eswar Koneti looks at how to use Win32 apps to deploy your custom wallpapers
https://www.systemcenterdudes.com/apply-custom-lock-screen-wallpaper-using-intune/
If you are running certain Lenovo devices and have noticed System Update Firmware Utility being offered to these devices, you can find out what it does and why you need it here in this post from Philip Jorgensen
https://blog.lenovocdrt.com/what-is-the-system-firmware-update-utility/
Video Content
Now for this weeks video content, starting with a look at how to properly log with PowerShell scripts in Intune from Steve Weiner
We also have the latest AMA from the Windows 365 team covering Windows 365 Link with Christian Montoya, Sandra Jelacic and Shannon Fritz
Christiaan Brinkhoff discusses both what’s planned for Windows in the Cloud and a look at the history of it with Scott Manchester
We also have an excellent Intune getting started video from Jonathan Edwards, well worth checking out!
Microsoft Content
Onto the Microsoft content starting with a look at your options for deploying your App-V packaged applications after the EOL of App-V server from Philip McLoughlin
If you manage devices used in a retail environment, the new changes to the Managed Home Screen and others will improve your user experience significantly. Learn more here from Yusuke Shinoki
The Remote Desktop client (store app) is shortly going EOS. You need to migrate to the Windows App ASAP. Learn more about what is required and the current feature gaps in this post from Hilary Braun
Some exciting news, we now have a Windows roadmap to see exactly what’s coming! More details here from Aria Hanson
That’s all for this week, have a great weekend! I’m off to enjoy a 10-hour trans-atlantic flight, wish me luck 🙂