Conference season is nearly back and I’ve been booking my travel and tickets to various events (if you want to see where I’ll be, check out the page here)
A slightly quieter week for community content (much needed holidays), but lots of exciting Microsoft news!
Community Content
We start this week with the second part of the series covering connected cache from Michael Meier. This one shows how to enable HTTPS support for Teams content initially and more to follow
Enable HTTPS Support for Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise – Part 2
Windows 10 EOL is rapidly approaching. If you’ve left it to the last minute, this post from Iresha S will help find your unsupported devices
https://just365things.com/how-to-find-unsupported-devices-before-windows-10-eol-with-intune/
We have a new series from Paul Winstanley and Niall Brady looking at all things AVD. This first post looks at quickly getting started with Quickset and how to connect to your new environment
Next, we have a look at Conditional Access, the all important front-door to your tenant from Ewelina Paczkowska
Jan Mulder has the first in a new series of posts looking at CIS benchmarks with this one covering what is available for Edge including the JSON files with the policy content
If you want to get your platform scripts back from Intune, check out this script from Gowdhaman Karthikeyan
https://blogs.gowdhaman.in/download-intune-platform-windows-powershell-scripts/
Next, Niklas Tinner looks at the different authentication methods in Entra
https://www.oceanleaf.ch/entra-authentication/
If you are using Workspace One and considering moving to Intune (and why wouldn’t you be), check out this comprehensive guide from Jon Towles
Are you finding some devices just refusing to enrol into Autopatch? It’s probably a windows update setting stuck on the device. Grab this script from Simon Skotheimsvik and make your life so much easier!
You can now recover any W365 machines which have been deprovisioned because the license wasn’t renewed in time. Find out how in this post from Dieter Kempeneers
Video Content
Onto the video content starting with a look at LAPS for macOS from Dean Ellerby
Dean also continues looking at PSADT, this time migrating your scripts from v3 to v4
A third video from Dean (and a webinar, busy week), this one covering how to add an iOS device to ABM with Apple Configurator on another iOS device
Next, Chander Mani Pandey looks at the new device clean up rules in Intune
Christiaan Brinkhoff discusses all things Windows (past and present) and AI with a look to the future here in an interview with Pavan Davuluri
It’s great having the Intune portal not listing thousands of devices, but when dealing with Graph, pagination is a pain! Steve Weiner looks at how to deal with it here
Sucheta Gawade runs through why to use Intune to secure your devices and manage your apps in the latest Zero to Hero video
Microsoft Content
A lof of exciting Microsoft news this week, starting with a very welcome addition to the Windows 365 family. Windows 365 reserve is in (limited) preview so you can have stand-by machines for downtime, forgotten devices etc. for up to 10 days a year. Learn more here from Logan Silliman
Always worth a read (and a bookmark), the What’s New in Security Copilot, with lots of great additions. The cost calculator is worth checking out too, you may realise it’s more cost effective than you think. Thanks to Lizzie Heinze for putting this together!
Platform SSO for macOS is now generally available. Learn all about it in this post from Veena Soman
A potential game changer for Microsoft Universal Print, it now has “Pull Print” functionality (follow-me printing). Combined with the free prints, it’s becoming very difficult to ignore now! Here are the details from Nishant Lakhanpal
Have you ever wanted a GPResult equivalent for Intune? Try this PowerShell module from Jonas Ohmsen
That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!