Intune Newsletter – 2nd January 2026

Welcome to 2026 and I hope you had a lovely holiday break (judging by the amount of content here, many of you were working between!).  I’m preparing for my alarm to go off on Monday morning after having avoided it as much as possible until now.

Let’s start this exciting new year with loads of Intune content from this magnificent community!


Community Content

We start this newsletter (and year) with a very useful cleanup script from Mark Orr to quickly remove old devices from pretty much everywhere

https://orr365.tech/autopilot-clean-up-with-microsoft-graph-and-powershell-e3b483a0293f?postPublishedType=repub


Damien Van Robaeys has released a new script which can be used to search your remediation scripts for specific words.  Extremely useful for environments with large numbers of scripts

https://www.systanddeploy.com/2025/12/list-all-intune-remediation-scripts_22.html


If you are a Microsoft partner trying to get the new Support Services Designation, this script from JJ Milner will help cover your MFA requirements

https://jjrmilner.substack.com/p/partner-centre-admin-mfa-assessment


Looking to get started with Windows 365?  This post from Michael Frank has literally everything you need for multiple different scenarios including reporting and configuration.

https://michaelsendpoint.com/intune/win365.html


Self-Service Account Recovery is finally here for Entra to recover accounts using biometrics and ID.  Learn more in this post from Michael Mardahl

Unlocking Self-Service Account Recovery (SSAR) in Microsoft Entra


Next, Justin Verstijnen has a useful script for removing printers, including the OneNote and Print to PDF included by default

Remove Microsoft Print to PDF and OneNote printers script


You may have noticed a new Edge pop-up about connecting to resources on the same network.  Learn how to control it using Intune here from Shehan Perera 

Controlling Web Sites Conneting to Local Network


Admin tasks are a new central blade for some of your more common things to complete (EPM requests, multi-admin etc.).  If you’ve seen it pop up in your tenant and want to know more, Peter van der Woude has you covered

Starting with admin tasks in Microsoft Intune


This in-depth post from Patrick Seltmann runs through why you need to make sure TPM has never been disabled and a custom compliance script to watch for it

Why you should ensure whether your TPM module has not been disabled once


With EAM coming to your E5 licensing, Andy Jones takes a look at how it fits and works in your environment

From Add-on to Essential – EAM is coming to M365 E5


A new preview feature for Windows 365 to protect input and output, security at the kernel/system level.  This post from Paul Winstanley and Niall Brady digs further into how to configure and use it

Windows 365 Cloud Input Protection Preview Feature


If you use the Collect Logs button a lot, but would like some of your own custom logs in there, try this approach from Nicklas Olsen

https://www.learnintune.net/collect-diagnostics-extending-with-custom-logs/


With the secure boot certificate potentially expiring soon, use this Log Analytics workbook and query from Jon Towles to find which of your devices are at risk

Leveraging Log Analytics to Query Secure Boot Certificate Update Status


You can now use Kerberos to access Azure File shares with cloud only identities, another step to hopefully killing off those on-prem file servers.  This guide from Peter Klapwijk runs through configuring it all

Configure Azure file shares for Entra joined Windows devices and cloud identities


If one of your New Years resolutions was to finally sort those kiosk devices, check out this post from Kevin Malinoski

Struggling with Windows 11 Kiosks in Intune? Here’s What the Docs Aren’t Telling You


Learn how to build your own Intune AI agent in Microsoft foundry by following this guide from Jannik Reinhard

Building Your Own Intune Agent with Microsoft Foundry


Video Content

Now for the video content, starting with part 1 of a new series covering how to deploy Win32 apps from Manish Bangia


With the very exciting updates to E3 and E5 licensing, Steve Weiner looks at the new products now included in your licenses.


If you’ve run Jon’s workbook above and have devices with secure boot certificate updates, here is a remediation to fix it from Chander Mani Pandey


Microsoft Content

Now for the first Microsoft content of 2026, starting with some exciting BitLocker news.  With drives increasing with speed, software encryption can slow the drive performance, but that won’t be an issue soon with hardware accelerated BitLocker.  Learn more from Rafal Sosnowski

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/announcing-hardware-accelerated-bitlocker/ba-p/4474609


That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!

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