The weather has been wild this week, I’ve never been more glad to be living further North, hopefully you’re all keeping cool somehow!
The key announcement this week, down in the Microsoft news, is preparing for 26H2 release, time to get testing. Plenty of great community content this week too
Community Content
We start this week with a guide from Daniel Gebler on how to reset your machines, no matter what state they were in with a custom recovery image using OSDCloud
https://danzi.blog/reset-pc-with-a-custom-recovery-image-part-i/
With part 2 covering how to create a recovery partition automatically
https://danzi.blog/reset-pc-with-a-custom-recovery-image-part-ii/
More start menu adjustments for you to check out in this post covering the account settings options from Peter van der Woude
If you are looking to add an extra layer of protection against any AI agents running on devices, try this post from Jeffrey Appel
Configure AI agent runtime protection (preview) with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Enrolling personal devices with work profiles on Android just became a whole lot easier thanks to the new web-based enrollment feature. Learn more in this comprehensive post from Nicky De Westelinck
Next, we have part two of the EPM guide from Simon Skotheimsvik and Mattias Melkersen Kalvåg. This one looks at how to get started in audit mode
Jan Mulder is quick off the mark, looking at Microsoft Scout, how to install it and more importantly, how to manage it with Intune
Learn how to deploy the Claude Desktop app using Intune in this post from Jóhannes Geir Kristjánsson
If you are starting out in Intune, want to double check your tenant, or are working as an Intune consultant, this checklist from Lewis Barry is definitely worth a look
https://conditionalaccess.uk/blog/m365-tenant-security-checklist/
This guide from Jannik Reinhard is one everyone should bookmark when troubleshooting Intune, highly recommended
The Ultimate Intune Troubleshooting Guide: How It Works and How I Fix It
As mentioned earlier, it’s time to start planning for 26H2, look at your deployment options in this post from Thomas Marcussen
Video Content
Onto the video content and we start with a useful one if you’re on E3 or E5, how to deploy certs with Cloud PKI from Dean Ellerby
Microsoft Content
Now for this weeks Microsoft and we start with the all important initial announcement of 26H2 from Jason Leznek
We finally have a Graph endpoint to grab all Enterprise App Management apps and export them! Learn how in this post from Joe Lurie
Learn how to use Privacy Preferences Policies on macOS in this post from Chris Kunze
Next, Nuno Costa covers the best way to deploy your secure boot certificates
Point in Time restore for Win 11 is now GA and you can find out more about it here from Lia Vargas
Windows admin actions are undergoing changes to increase hardening. This is one you will want to read by Dashmeet Ajmani
A new Windows 365 monitoring and reporting platform is now available in preview as covered here by Doug Cooms
After WWDC26, you might be wondering which exciting Apple features are going to be supported by Intune. Fortunately this post from Benjamin Flamm and Iris Yuning Ye runs through what is coming
That’s all for this week, have an incredible weekend!