Intune Newsletter – 19th September 2025

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

16 Bit Applications on Windows 11?


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

Intune compliance for Windows 365 Cloud PCs


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

Windows 365 Link – a week and some


PAWS and SAWS massively increase the security posture, but do come with their issues.  If you are considering, check out this from Anders Ahl

Implementing Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) – Benefits, Challenges, and Security Considerations


This post from Tobias Eriksson looks at Windows backup including a video of how it works

Setting up and trying the new Windows Backup for Organizations in Intune (with video) and how to make it a more “complete” backup solution.


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

Cloudy With a Chance of Apps


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

Windows 365 Cloud Apps


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

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/enhancing-azure-virtual-desktop-and-windows-365-experience-with/ba-p/4446612


Intune now supports iOS and macOS 26, you can see the new features in this post from the Intune Support Team

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/IntuneCustomerSuccess/day-zero-support-for-iosipados-and-macos-26/4454161


Some updates to Windows 365 boot including connection centre for people with multiple machines and multi-region capabilities.  Learn more here from Elina Luthra

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-365-boot-connection-center-improved-experience-generally/ba-p/4453399


The official announcement of Windows 365 cloud apps from Serena Zheng

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-365-cloud-apps-are-now-in-public-preview/ba-p/4453397


Windows 365 frontline is now available in GCC and GCCH as announced here by Go Komatsu

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/announcing-windows-365-frontline-for-gcc-and-gcch/ba-p/4452096


Security Copilot now also understands Windows 365 (been a busy week in the 365 team), learn more here from Chris Mckitterick

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/extending-copilot-in-intune-to-manage-windows-365-cloud-pcs/ba-p/4453398


The latest skilling snack is available and looks at all things M365 Copilot Chat from Eric Van Aelstyn

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/skilling-snack-get-started-with-microsoft-365-copilot-chat/4454597


That’s it for this week, have a great weekend and for those travelling to Switzerland, have a very safe journey!

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