Welcome back, can you believe it’s been a week already, it’s certainly been a busy one here, really feels like everyone is getting back from holidays now (hope you’ve all had a good one!)

Community Content

With the GA release of Connected Cache for Enterprise, Michael Meier runs through how to migrate your preview nodes to GA in this first part of a new series

Standalone Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise is now GA – Part 1

Next, Kevin Malinoski digs into how devices communicate back to Intune and how to try and resolve any latency issues

Understanding Intune Device Check-Ins and Latency

With macOS moving to declarative device management (DDM, we don’t have enough acronyms yet), Steffen Schwerdtfeger looks at how to configure your policies following the ringed approach

https://www.manage-everything.cloud/post/streamlining-macos-patch-management-with-update-rings-via-intune-ddm-policies

Ever hit the error “This user is now authorized to enroll”? If so, Gerry Hampson has the solution here along with troubleshooting steps to rule everything else out along the way

http://gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.com/2025/07/autopilot-this-user-is-not-authorized.html

This is one we will be hearing more about soon, Microsoft 365 Companion Apps will soon be bundled with your M365 install. Learn how to disable and remove them in this post from Tobias Eriksson

Microsoft 365 Companion Apps – People, File Search and Calender. How to remove them and why we need them (or why we don’t?)

If you are using PIM (and if licensed, you absolutely should be), but users don’t like the elevation process, try this new tool from Sebastian F. Markdanner

https://www.chanceofsecurity.com/post/microsoft-entra-pim-bulk-role-activation-tool

Microsoft Edge finally features a secure, enterprise grade password manager, long overdue! Learn how to configure and use it in this post from Rahul Jindal

https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2025/08/microsoft-edge-secure-password.html

Damien Van Robaeys has updated the excellent SelfX tool to allow users to run remediations on demand directly from their devices. This post covers how to get it all setup

https://www.systanddeploy.com/2025/08/remotely-run-on-demand-intune.html

This post from Roman Padrun looks at the key app patching solutions for Intune and which to consider if you are looking to implement, or change vendor

https://www.cloudcook.ch/robopack-your-all-in-one-patching-solution-2/

Shehan Perera runs through migrating to cloud native in this post and in-depth video discussion, well worth checking out

🎙️Let There Be Cloud-Native Endpoints

Michael Frank continues looking at the features of Intune Suite, this time looking at all of the smaller options, Tunnel, speciality devices etc.

https://michaelsendpoint.com/intune/intune_suite/additional_capabilities.html

For those of you managing EPM with approvals, this runbook from Jens Du Four will send the requests to Teams for you to manage quicker and easier

Automating EPM Approvals with Teams and Azure Logic Apps

Did you know M365 Copilot and Security Copilot don’t natively fall under conditional access? Learn how to protect them in this post from Jan Mulder

Protect Copilot with Conditional Access

If you want to find out the authentication methods being used for login, check out this remediation from Jóhannes Geir Kristjánsson

Last Authentication Method Used

Video Content

That brings us nicely onto this weeks video content with Dean Ellerby continuing looking at PSADT, this time covering how to use ServiceUI to interact with the logged in user when running in the system context

However, with PSADT 4.1.0 changes all of that and includes the same functionality natively. Dean digs into this functionality here

Learn how to use the excellent Maester tool to audit your tenant in this video from Jonathan Edwards

Steve Weiner runs through 10 steps when configuring for Intune and Autopilot for the first time, recommended for anyone starting out (or wanting to double check their environment)