Intune Newsletter – 4th April 2025

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

Set Intune Primary User with Azure Automation


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

First Look at Quick machine recovery


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

https://smbtothecloud.com/is-per-user-mfa-really-disabled-maybe-not-if-its-breaking-your-entra-joined-w365-avd-connections/


Paul Winstanley and David Brook have released their new Intune for Admins book, which is well worth checking out!

The Ultimate Microsoft Intune for Administrators Book


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

Windows app is blank, how to troubleshoot ? part 2


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

https://www.chanceofsecurity.com/post/securing-microsoft-business-premium-part-04-password-protection


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

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/get-started-with-quick-machine-recovery-in-windows/ba-p/4398487


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

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/why-windows-autopatch-is-the-smart-update-solution/ba-p/4399200


And of course a look at what’s new in Windows from Thomas Trombley

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-news-you-can-use-march-2025/ba-p/4398578


Windows hotpatch is here for your Windows clients as covered here by David Callaghan

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/hotpatch-for-windows-client-now-available/4399808


Lots of exciting Windows 365 updates now GA, including Windows 365 link!  Find out more in this post from Stefan Kinnestrand

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/04/02/maximize-productivity-and-roi-with-windows-365-new-innovations-now-generally-available/


We also have some FAQ about Like Local for W365 in this post from Christiaan Brinkhoff

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/frequently-asked-questions-like-local-in-the-cloud/4400268


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

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