It’s the one you’ve all been waiting for, the Ignite Special. I joined remotely this year, but have still been keeping track of everything for you. The big news is the inclusion of Security Copilot on M365 E5 subscriptions, this is going to make it available for so many people now! That’s not all, sysmon is coming to Windows!!!!
I’ve added a whole section to cover the Ignite news, it’s well worth checking out
Community Content
This one crept in just ahead of the Ignite news, you can now use an install script within Win32 directly rather than having to add it to the Intunewin and then call it separately. Learn more in this post from Daniel Bradley
PowerShell Script Support Added for Win32 Intune App Deployment
If you need to assign scope tags onto devices automatically based on the primary user, T-Bone Granheden has made yet more improvements to the script here to solve the issue for you
Updated My Script To “Add Scope Tags Based On Primary User”, Faster and better logging
EPM has had another update, you can now elevate as the logged in user, rather than using one of the hidden elevation accounts. Find out more in this post from Peter van der Woude
Elevating in user context using Endpoint Privilege Management
Good timing on this post from Ben Whitmore! With Security Copilot now in your E5 license, it’s the perfect time to get started with it and Ben has a very thorough guide here!
You can now let AI agents control your computer for you! If you want to test it yourself, follow this guide from Tim Beer
Microsoft Copilot Studio Computer Use: AI That Actually Clicks Your Buttons
Another very useful update for Win365. Your frontline workers can now have persistent data across sessions as described here by Dieter Kempeneers
Use Experience Sync: Persistent User Data for Frontline Shared
Prepare for the upcoming UEFI 2023 update by finding your compliant devices with these options from Joymalya Basu Roy
Preparing for the Secure Boot UEFI CA 2023 Update: Why Inventory is Your First Line of Defense
With Win365 Cloud Apps now in preview, Jan Mulder looks at how to configure and use them here
Kevin Malinoski looks at the news around Autopatch from Ignite (official announcements below)
The Future of Windows Autopatch is Here (and It’s Awesome) | Previewed from Microsoft Ignite 2025
Now passkeys from Bitwarden and OnePassword are supported in Windows, you may want to control the availability of them to users. Jan Bakker shows how to manage them here
If Credential Guard is causing issues for your Wi-Fi authentication on hybrid devices, check out this fix from Rahul Jindal
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2025/11/entra-hybrid-join-8021x-using-peap.html
Video Content
Now for the video content, starting with a full tutorial on configuring Autopilot Device Prep from Nick Ross
Guest accounts are often overlooked in tenants, this video from Jonathan Edwards covers how to secure them
Ignite News
There is a LOT of news here so get comfy!
We start with the all-important book of news, everything announced across all software
https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2025-book-of-news/
The key Intune announcements and sessions are covered here by Jason Roszak
Some exciting improvements in Autopatch including Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) from John Cable
Windows 365 for Agents is now available, learn more here from Elaine You
If you are using Windows 365 or AVD with BYOD, you can now implement keyboard input protection for further protection of your corporate data. Lavanya Kasarabada covers it here
Find out about the new AI and Copilot features in Windows in this post from Stefan Kinnestrand
A lot of Windows 365 frontline updates including cloud apps here with Scott Duffey
This post from Lia Vargas looks at all of the new windows resiliency tools
You’ve probably seen this one a lot, but here is the official announcement of Security Copilot with E5 from Dorothy Li
Agents built into your workflow: Get Security Copilot with Microsoft 365 E5
You can now use external identities with Windows 365 and AVD as covered here by Christian Montoya
Some new additions and upcoming features for Windows 365 Link here from Anthony Smith
Serah Delaini looks at sustainability across Windows and monitoring with Intune here
Windows 365 Machines are now AI enabled with lots of exciting new features. Learn more here from Christiaan Brinkhoff
One I am very excited about this one, sysmon is coming natively to Windows 11 and Windows Server from the legend Mark Russinovich
We also have some Ignite special videos starting with a Windows in the cloud special looking at all things Windows 365 with Christiaan Brinkhoff and guests
Christiaan also discusses Windows 365 AI enabled machines
Microsoft Content
Onto the non-Ignite Microsoft news with an important one. There are so many excuses for people avoiding cloud native devices, most of which just aren’t true. Roger Southgate looks at some of them here
That was a lot of content, congratulations for getting this far. Enjoy the weekend!