Welcome to August, the year is flying by and I’m already starting to plan conferences for next year!!
It seems the Intune community has staggered holidays this year, the content just keeps coming, plus a few Microsoft AMAs below!
Community Content
We start this week with a full look at assignments in Intune, what to do, what definitely not to do and how to get it all working nicely from Florian Salzmann
https://scloud.work/mastering-assignments-in-intune-group-targeting-done-right/
If you’re getting started with app packaging, check out this guide from Daniel Keer
https://thedxt.ca/2025/07/intune-win32-packaging/
Something admins have been asking for, you can now recover your machines from the internet. Learn more here from Shehan Perera
Michael Frank continues digging into the components of Intune suite, this time with a deep dive into cloud PKI
https://michaelsendpoint.com/intune/intune_suite/microsoft_cloud_pki.html
McAfee is the software version of a cockroach and often bundled with new devices (unless you pay for a clean build). This was fine when we were all wiping with SCCM/MDT, but with Autopilot, it’s more troublesome. Kevin Malinoski has a script here to remove it during OOBE
Streamlining McAfee Removal in Intune for 2025: A Comprehensive Guide
If you’re getting started with Intune, this first post from Iresha S covers some of the policies everyone should consider having
https://just365things.com/what-intune-admins-shouldnt-miss-in-windows-autopilot/
Local user group policies are very useful for quickly managing group membership at the single device level, but when scaling, conflicts can become an issue. Learn more about how this could be a problem here from Simon Skotheimsvik
With the exciting macOS news of LAPS (I can see admins rejoicing everywhere), Joery Van den Bosch has been quick off the mark with this guide for configuring and using it
How to setup macOS LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution) with Intune
Joery also covers the full end-to-end setup of Autopatch and Hotpatch here
How to setup Windows Autopatch and enable Hotpatch – The Complete Step by Step guide
One which comes up a lot and I make sure to implement in all environments, nothing worse than having multiple desktop shortcuts as you change machines, rebuild etc. and OneDrive decides to grab both copies. Learn how to exclude specific file types from backing up in this guide from Peter van der Woude
Sometimes the Intune log collection isn’t the most rapid of approaches, if you need something quicker, try this solution from Jóhannes Geir Kristjánsson
Secure Private Access is now available for domain controllers which will be useful for your single server small businesses as you migrate them to the cloud. Learn more in this post from Dustin Gullett
If you are managing macOS devices and want to force a minimum version, but without manually having to update every time Apple release a new OS, check out this script from Niels Kok
Next, Jan Mulder looks at the different ways to query your macOS devices within Intune
Video Content
Now onto the video content, starting with two videos from Dean Ellerby. The first looks at M365 backup, how to configure it and why backing up your M365 data and environment is crucial
Dean’s second video looks at PSADT4 and how to get started with it
Dean also runs through how to use PSADT4 with Intune apps
Next, Jonathan Edwards looks at your options for setting up Intune tenants with baselines (although EUCToolbox is missing #leftout)
If you want to automate assignments of your Intune policies with PowerShell, check out this video from Steve Weiner
We have another new script from Chander Mani Pandey, this one to bulk remove users from Entra groups
Now for a great selection of AMAs from Microsoft, the first of which covers Windows and AI with some questions I’m sure many of you have been thinking about. This video features Steve Thomas, Paul Gusmorino, Aria Hanson and Xander Fiss
The second AMA covers all things connected cache with Joe Lurie, Andy Rivas, Carmen Forsmann and Christopher Lin
This AMA will be a popular one, windows updates and driver management featuring Surabhi Calla, Ranjith Reddy, Vishal Bajaj and Ken Goossens
The final AMA discusses Windows Autopilot (including device prep) with Joe Lurie, Maggie Dakeva and Rob York
Microsoft Content
Now for this weeks Microsoft content starting with a step by step guide for migrating to Intune and cloud native from Steven Hosking
Learn how to use Autopatch groups to handle your Win11 upgrade in this post from Akash Malhotra
The all-important Windows news you can use is out from Eric Moe
That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!
Thanks for all your work!
Great to see my first blog post here!
Thanks, Andrew 😊