Can you believe it’s April already (although I wish someone would tell the weather that!). After a fun-filled week at Microsoft MVP summit last week, it’s now back to normality for a few weeks before I’m off to Paris for the MEM Summit. No Tech Takeoff this week, but plenty of exciting content!
Community Content
We start this week with a look at why the “Intune is slow” debate is no longer true and learn all about the Intune fast lane here from Jon Jarvis
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/intune-timing-demystified-why-8hour-delay-myth-jon-jarvis-bzdge/
Still not sure whether to use traditional Autopilot or the newer Autopilot Device Prep? This post (and video) from Kevin Malinoski should help
Intune Autopilot Showdown 2026 – Autopilot v. Autopilot Device Prep
Kevin is also starting a new series looking at kiosk devices using assigned access and the first part is now available here
Assigned Access April – A Month Dedicated to Windows 11 Assigned Access (The Real Kiosk Future)
This post from Mecken Swyter looks at compliance, conditional access and how to reduce downtime for your users
https://meckenswyter.com/intune/rethinking-device-compliance
We have another very useful new tool from Jannik Reinhard and one I have used myself. I’m lazy and create my Intune policies with the idea that I will add a description when I get time, which I never do. Running this will review the policy and generate a description for you!!
Ever wanted the Intune audit logs to be a bit more friendly? Check out this new tool from Simon Skotheimsvik, Jan Ketil Skanke, Nickolaj Andersen, Maurice Daly and Sandy Zeng
Introducing Intune Guardian — The MSEndpointMgr Intune Audit Dashboard, Evolved
Next, Simon Hartmann Eriksen looks at Intune Compliance and how to get your policies working securely and smoothly
Finally working on your cloud native migration? Tobias Eriksson has an excellent guide for your GPOs here
Learn how to use QR codes to sign into your Android shared devices with an Entra account here from Nicky De Westelinck
Seamless Access: Using QR Code Sign‑In on Android Enterprise Shared Devices with Microsoft Entra
Thomas Marcussen has created an end-to-end guide for managing your Windows 365 machines in this post
On the subject of Windows 365, with a Microsoft surface mouse and a bluetooth keyboard, you basically have a computer in your pocket as Ola Ström tries here
We all want to find those devices where the user has local admin, but we know they will never admit it. This KQL query and runbook from Damien Van Robaeys will rapidly find them for you
https://www.systanddeploy.com/2026/03/hunt-devices-with-local-admin-account.html
For those of your running macOS, Gannon Novak demonstrates how to run Windows within a virtual machine for testing here
If you are using Connected Cache, you definitely want to check out this post from Michael Niehaus to make sure it continues serving Intune content after July
Delivery Optimization downloads are changing, is your MCC ready?
We have two posts now from Joery Van den Bosch starting with a look at the new setting to block user enrollments via the work and school account
Joery’s second post is a new tool to outline the impact of policies within your Intune tenant
Introducing the Intune Policy Intelligence Agent – Without the need of Security Copilot!!
Learn all about the disaster recovery options for Windows 365 in this post from Dominiek Verham
Video Content
Now for this weeks video content, starting with a useful remediation to display any Windows update errors directly in the Intune portal from Chander Mani Pandey
Steve Weiner looks at how to get started with the Explorer functionality in this video
Microsoft Content
Now for this weeks Microsoft content starting with a new series on migrating your frontline devices from the Intune support team
Learn all about Zero Trust in Intune with RBAC and Scope tags here from Chris Vetter
The Windows App keeps on improving, it always seems to have something new and exciting added to it. Learn all about the recent updates in this post from Hilary Braun
Windows 365 Frontline Shared mode has expanded further and is now available in Brazil South, Italy North and West Europe as covered here by Vidya Iyer
There is now a Windows 365 connector for Power Platform and logic apps. Learn more here from Ivaylo Ivanov
That’s all for this week, have a lovely weekend (and a lovely Easter to those who celebrate)