Intune Newsletter – 10th July 2026

Welcome back and for those in the UK, it’s nearly school holidays time (for those in Scandinavia, enjoy the long break).  There will probably be no newsletter next week as I’m having a very much needed week off with my family, but I’ll make sure everything is included in the following week


Community Content

For those of you managing Apple devices, this one is worth reading!  Enrollment time grouping is now GA to help speed everything up when deploying a new device.  Learn more here from Scott Breen

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-apple-fleet-shouldnt-wait-hours-its-apps-when-enrolling-breen-6ikac/


If you have E5 licensing and want to know more about the Enterprise App Management you now get for free, check out this in-depth post from Thomas Marcussen

Auto-Updating Enterprise App Catalog Apps in Intune: What GA Actually Changes


Another post covering customizing the start menu on your shared devices from Peter van der Woude, this one looks at the power options and how to hide them

Customizing the power options in Start layout


There is a new private preview for AVD to allow you to redirect certain items from the local machine depending on the device/user meeting criteria in CA.  You can find out more in this post from Niels Kok

AVD Context based redirections


Those E5 licenses now also give you access to Security Copilot and this post from Michael Frank covers how to get started with it

https://michaelsendpoint.com/security/SecurityCopilot/SecurityCopilot.html


If you are managing developer devices and missing the Dev Boxes of old, there is now a Developer configuration for Windows 365 available in the gallery as covered here by Niall Brady

First looks at Windows 365’s gallery Image with Developer Configuration (preview)


Next, Jeroen Burgerhout looks at the different options available for managing your Windows 365 machines

https://www.burgerhout.org/windows-365-wednesdays-understanding-cloud-pc-settings/


Alex Durrant has created a community fork of the AVD Monitoring Baseline with many exciting improvements, one to configure if you manage AVD

AVD Monitoring Baseline: Community Edition


Users will be users and sometimes they need items in the system tray with the correct icons.  This remediation from Remy Kuster helps bridge the gap

Pin icons in system tray with Intune remediation script


This post from Nicklas Olsen shows how to use Properties Catalog to grab more information about your applications

https://www.learnintune.net/properties-catalog-collect-app-information/


Video Content

Now for this weeks video content, starting with a look at the goodies you now get in your E3 and E5 licenses from Chander Mani Pandey


Now Device Query is available on E3 and E5 licenses, Steve Weiner covers how to use it here


Microsoft Content

On to this weeks Microsoft content starting with the news that Windows backup will now be on by default as covered here by Miranda Leschke

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-settings-backup-becoming-a-new-resilience-baseline/ba-p/4530757


If you haven’t yet tried Windows 365 boot, this guide from Michael Hildebrand will set you on your way

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/windows-365-boot/ba-p/4533696


This post from the Intune Support Team runs through patching strategy to rapidly deal with the ever-growing vulnerabilities

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/IntuneCustomerSuccess/build-a-patch-strategy-for-today%E2%80%99s-threat-pace-with-microsoft/4535115


RDP Multipath is now GA for AVD and W365 using TCP as covered here by Rinku Dalwani

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/rdp-multipath-with-redundant-tcp-is-now-generally-available-for-windows-365-and-/4534610


Discover how to use Win365 for agents to safely control how your agents operate here from Aarthi Sukumar

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-365-for-agents-a-secured-execution-environment-for-ai-agents/4529336


That’s all for this week, have an amazing weekend!

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