It’s the end of May already and a busy June awaits with both Workplace Ninjas Oslo and Workplace Ninjas UK, but I’ll still find time for the newsletter! We have some exciting updates from Microsoft in the What’s New in Intune so be sure to check that out!
Community Content
We start this week with the next post in the Business Premium series from Sebastian F. Markdanner. This one covers managing your external Entra users
If you’ve ever tried configuring the Taskbar in Windows 11 with Intune, you’ll have experienced how tricky it can be. Fortunately Jon Towles has a guide here on how to manage it cleanly
Troubleshooting and Fixing Personalization Policies in Microsoft Intune
Transitioning to modern device management is a change in mindset along with the actual technical implementation. Learn how to make your journey and how AI can help you here from Jannik Reinhard
We now have two posts from Rahul Jindal, starting with a guide on how to configure Intune permissions to allow configuration of policies from within Defender for Endpoint
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2025/05/configuring-intune-permissions-in.html
Rahul’s second post runs through troubleshooting an issue with Kerberos Cloud Trust and WHfB
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2025/05/windows-hello-for-business-cloud-trust.html
Next, we have the second part of the delivery optimization guide from Dustin Gullett. This one covers reporting on your newly configured settings and what happens if something goes wrong
Sometimes you can’t beat old-fashioned local script troubleshooting (especially if you are in a rush). If you want to try your remediations locally, Florian Salzmann has you covered here
https://scloud.work/how-to-troubleshoot-intune-remediation-scripts-locally/
If you are running Chrome in your environment, learn how to deploy and use the Purview extension here from Peter van der Woude
Getting started with the Microsoft Purview extension for Google Chrome
Global Secure Access has a lot of logging available, including KQL workbooks as covered here (including examples) by Niklas Tinner
https://www.oceanleaf.ch/gsa-logs/
For those of you who want the old non-AI notepad back, Michael Niehaus has the solution here
Michael has also been experimenting with Autopilot device prep to find a way around the hybrid join restriction:
And pre-prov
Damien Van Robaeys has another exciting Log Analytics workbook, this time for monitoring all Group changes within Entra
https://www.systanddeploy.com/2025/05/entra-id-groups-inspector-log-analytics.html
Video Content
Now for the video content, starting with the latest Intune updates in 2503 and 2504 from Nickolaj Andersen, Mattias Melkersen Kalvåg and Peter van der Woude, this one recorded live at MEM summit in Paris
We have a new podcast from Steve Weiner, discussing Automation of everything using PowerShell with Hailey Phillips
We also have some tips for creating and troubleshooting remediation scripts from Manish Bangia
Microsoft Content
Now for the Microsoft content with one especially for any app developers, learn about the unified updates plan here from Angie Chen
Now in preview, you can backup your device config and restore to a new one. Find out more here from Miranda Leschke
Here is the exciting What’s New in Intune from Scott Sawyer including an addition to multi-admin approval
Continuing the series on managing frontline devices, this one covers the devices for managers who will need different configurations from Shawn Catlin
That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!