It’s been a busy week for me, a trip to the office in Copenhagen at the start of the week to put the finishing touches on the new version of Tenant Manager (if you haven’t checked it out yet, you really should! Mention the newsletter and I’ll get you a discount too).
Then off to Switzerland on Sunday for the Workplace Ninjas Summit, as usual you’ll find me in the vendor area, probably at the Robopack/Software Central booth.
Somehow I’ve managed to find time for the newsletter, which is just as well, some excellent content!
Community Content
We start this week with a post which will probably be all too familiar to some of you (sorry), how do I get those mission critical line of business 16-bit apps to work on Windows 11?Michael Meier looks at your different options here
We have all seen the stories, one person hits a bad website and the next thing you know, ransomwared. Learn how to use Global Secure Access Threat Intelligence to reduce the risk in this post from Dustin Gullett
Guardrails for the Internet Lane: Rolling Out GSA Threat Intelligence
With Windows 365 always gaining popularity, there are some things to consider when looking at device compliance as some of your standard settings for physical devices won’t apply. Learn more here from Peter Klapwijk
If you want to avoid users having to approve permissions when launching AVD or Windows 365, check out this post from Alex Durrant
Teams Privacy Popups: Sort Them Once for All AVD and Windows 365 Users
Now we can not just install updates during OOBE, but actually control them, Peter van der Woude runs through how it works here
Installing Windows security updates during the Windows out-of-box-experience
Quickly assess your Conditional Access policies against the Zero Trust pillars with this script from Jan Mulder
Conditional Access to zero trust compliance report with powershell
Learn how to automate partition sizes when building from ISO in this post from Thad Lawson
https://blog.lenovocdrt.com/automate-partition-sizes-when-using-windows-11-iso/
Jörgen Nilsson has been using Windows 365 Link for a while now and you can find out the findings here
PAWS and SAWS massively increase the security posture, but do come with their issues. If you are considering, check out this from Anders Ahl
This post from Tobias Eriksson looks at Windows backup including a video of how it works
One I have been looking forward to for a while, Windows 365 cloud apps are now in public preview. Find out more about them in this post from Paul Winstanley and Niall Brady
Dieter Kempeneers also looks at Windows 365 cloud apps and compares to the AVD remote apps option
Windows 365 Cloud Apps: Simplicity Meets Application Streaming
A popular subject this week, also covered here by Roman Kleyn
Following on from the introduction to CA from Niklas Tinner, this second post looks at the advanced options available
https://www.oceanleaf.ch/advanced-conditional-access/
Learn about resizing your Windows 365 machines on demand with some size recommendations in this post from Thomas Marcussen
https://blog.thomasmarcussen.com/resize-windows-365-frontline-cloud-pcs-on-demand/
Video Content
Onto the video content with a very quick and easy Entra to further secure your tenant from Jonathan Edwards
Next, Chander Mani Pandey has a remediation script to find any local admins
Ever uploaded a script to Intune and then lost the source files? Fortunately you can get them back as Steve Weiner shows here
Microsoft Content
We have quite a few Microsoft announcements this week too starting with new healthchecks for AVD and Win365 from Pavithra Thiruvengadam
Intune now supports iOS and macOS 26, you can see the new features in this post from the Intune Support Team
Some updates to Windows 365 boot including connection centre for people with multiple machines and multi-region capabilities. Learn more here from Elina Luthra
The official announcement of Windows 365 cloud apps from Serena Zheng
Windows 365 frontline is now available in GCC and GCCH as announced here by Go Komatsu
Security Copilot now also understands Windows 365 (been a busy week in the 365 team), learn more here from Chris Mckitterick
The latest skilling snack is available and looks at all things M365 Copilot Chat from Eric Van Aelstyn
That’s it for this week, have a great weekend and for those travelling to Switzerland, have a very safe journey!