It’s April already, time is flying by! The sunshine hasn’t stopped the content from flowing though with Windows Quick Recovery proving particularly popular this week
Community Content
We start this week with a look at how to use logging in your PowerShell scripts within Intune and the best way to go about it from Steve Weiner
https://www.getrubix.com/blog/powershell-best-practices-for-intune-logging
If you want to automatically set the primary user to the most logged in user on a device in the last 30 days, grab this script from Torbjorn (Mr T-Bone) Granheden
Next, Niklas Tinner looks at the infrastructure underneath Intune and which components handle which actions
https://www.oceanleaf.ch/the-jurassic-park-of-intune/
There are some things from on-prem GPO (or in this case GPP) which we miss from Intune. If managing services on a client is one of them, this script from Florian Salzmann should help
https://scloud.work/manage-windows-service-with-intune/
If you are looking to enable Edge Enterprise sync, this guide from Rahul Jindal (plus troubleshooting tip) should get you started
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2025/04/microsoft-edge-enterprise-sync-intune.html
Next, Peter van der Woude has a guide on how to get up and running with Global Secure Access on Android devices
Getting started with the Global Secure Access client for Android
As mentioned earlier, Quick Machine Recovery is an exciting new feature in 24H2 (Insider Preview). Learn not only how it works, but more importantly, how to enable it in Intune here from Ugur Koc
How to enable and configure Quick Machine Recovery with Intune
Jan Mulder also looks at Quick Machine recovery here
Per-User MFA can completely block login to AVD and Win365 devices, but it doesn’t always display in the portal. If you are having issues and want to double check, follow this guide from Gannon Novak
Paul Winstanley and David Brook have released their new Intune for Admins book, which is well worth checking out!
Niall Brady has the second part looking at how to repair an empty Windows app (the store one for W365) and has found a fix. Read more here
Next we have the fourth part of the excellent series on securing your business premium licensed tenant from Sebastian Flæng Markdanner. This one covers SSPR
Video Content
Onto the video content, starting with an updated Microsoft Intune guide from Dean Ellerby, well worth watching if you are just starting out
Chander Mani Pandey runs through a script here to automate adding macOS DMG packages to Intune
Steve Weiner has the next video in the PowerShell scripting series, this one looks at the all important error-handling to work out what’s causing your scripts to break
Steve also looks at what’s new in the 2503 Intune release:
Craig Camacho has released the second episode of the series looking at Windows updates, this one looking at quality, feature and driver update policies
Microsoft Content
Now for the Microsoft content, starting with the official guide for using Quick Machine Recovery from Riddhi Ameser
My favourite news from the week, Autopatch is now available for those on business premium and education licensing! Here is the announcement and why you should make the switch from Alan Meeus
And of course a look at what’s new in Windows from Thomas Trombley
Windows hotpatch is here for your Windows clients as covered here by David Callaghan
Lots of exciting Windows 365 updates now GA, including Windows 365 link! Find out more in this post from Stefan Kinnestrand
We also have some FAQ about Like Local for W365 in this post from Christiaan Brinkhoff
That’s it for this week, have a great weekend!