Welcome one and all and greetings from Denmark where I am currently in the office planning what exciting things we are adding to Tenant Manager and Robopack next! Yesterday I was at the excellent EUCTech event at Legoland, was great to meet some of you there. I wonder how many newsletters I have written in airport lounges and hotel rooms…
Anyway, this edition is now live and ready for you to enjoy, check out the new individual device view within Intune as well!
Community Content
If you ever tried migrating Apple devices in previous years, you will know how painful it was (and usually involved a wipe). Fortunately things are much easier these days (and wipe free!). Follow this guide from Jan Mulder to try it yourself
For those of you managing Lenovo devices, this post from Philip Jorgensen is a must read! A new PowerShell UI tool to create OMA-URI policies instead of having to ingest the ADMX templates!
https://blog.lenovocdrt.com/introducing-commercial-vantage-policy-manager-for-intune
Learn the join type of the guest accounts accessing your tenant with this Log Analytics KQL query from Jóhannes Geir Kristjánsson
We have a very useful new tool from Andy Jones to help with those day-to-day Intune tasks, check it out here
Take your Kiosk management to the next level by blocking particular key combinations in this post from Peter van der Woude
Locking down Windows devices by suppressing key combinations
Trying to get your head around all of the different 365 agents? Check out this post from Jannik Reinhard
Microsoft Agent 365 vs. Microsoft 365 Agents: A Field Guide for IT and Architects
You probably have known folder move configured with OneDrive, but I imagine the users downloads folder is a mess (I know mine is). Use this post from Simon Hartmann Eriksen to get the devices cleaned up
Cleanup Remediations: The Forgotten Half of Endpoint Hygiene
A very popular change, the new App Discovery functionality is available, using the Properties catalog. Learn more here from Michael Frank
https://michaelsendpoint.com/intune/ModernApp.html
Kevin Malinoski also looks at the new functionality here
May the Apps Be With You – Intune’s New Enhanced App Inventory Dashboard
You can tell it was popular, Joost Gelijsteen also has a look here including some useful troubleshooting tips
Next, Albin Klinaku looks at the native way of removing Windows apps
https://www.indefent.com/dynamically-remove-apps-from-windows-11-the-new-way/
This is one case where hybrid is allowed (and in some cases recommended). If you have apps blocking your cloud native move, simply put them on AVD and give users access that way. You can now even host your AVD servers on-prem! Find out about this very recent development here from Dieter Kempeneers
Protect your platform access by following this guide from Dominiek Verham
Securing the DaaS environment: protecting the management platform
Video Content
Now for the video content and we start with Dean Ellerby and Andy Jones discussing all things Intune at the Microsoft recording studio
Microsoft Content
Onto the Microsoft content for the week (and there has been a lot), starting with a look at the new Windows 365 for agents from Swarnim Srivastava
This post from Carol Burns and Sucheta Gawade looks at the next steps when migrating your frontline devices to being Intune managed, looking at all of the key stakeholders to involve in the process
Some exciting changes for Windows 365 to make it even more accessible to everyone as covered here by Tristan Scott
The Windows news you can use is now available for April from Chris Morrissey
That’s all for this week, have an amazing weekend!