Intune Newsletter – 14th August 2026

A lot of excitement this week about the solar eclipse, I’m old enough to remember the one in 1999!  Hopefully you all managed to see it one way or another.

Next weeks newsletter will probably be scheduled, I’m over at a Robopack company event planning the exciting functionality we will soon be bringing to your favourite Intune companion apps!  If I miss anything, I’ll make sure to include it in the week after.


Community Content

We start this week with two posts from Nicky De Westelinck, the first looking at all of the exciting new features for Android Enterprise Intune users.

What’s New for Android Enterprise in Microsoft Intune 2607: July 2026 Highlights

Nicky’s second post covers end-to-end integration of Samsung Knox E-FOTA and Intune, very useful for the no doubt many of you managing Samsung devices.

Samsung Knox E-FOTA Integration with Microsoft Intune: Complete Configuration Guide


We finally have a better overview of the black box behind the sync button with the new Device Action Status.  Find out more about it here with Craig Camacho

Intune Device Action Status: Beyond Clicking Sync 


A change which happened more quietly than expected.  Microsoft are retiring the Windows 365 User Settings to move instead to Cloud PC Settings.  If you are managing Windows 365 devices, check out this guide from Dieter Kempeneers to migrate them

Windows 365 User Settings Are Being Retired: Migrate Now


If you are still managing AVD with golden images and want to move to something more modern, learn how to use Azure Image Builder in this first part of a new series from Michael Meier

Using Azure Image Builder to build your custom VM Images – Part 1


For those of you deep in Graph, you’ll no doubt have noticed the new WAM option when connecting.  Learn all you will ever need to know about it here with Ben Whitmore

WAM Bam, Thank You Ma’am. What Changed in the Microsoft Graph SDK


Next, Rahul Jindal looks at what the move to passwordless authentication means for your zero trust journey

https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2026/08/microsoft-entra-makes-passwordless.html


With the removal of legacy auth methods in Entra, Jon Towles looks at how to transfer to passkeys in your tenant

Farewell SMS, Passkeys ARE the New Standard: Getting Ready to Ditch Legacy Authentication Methods


Another week, another change to the start menu (bring back Windows 95 list please).  Fortunately Peter van der Woude shows how to customize the new folders using Intune here

Customizing the pinned folders in Start layout


Learn how to configure Autopatch with Windows 365 here from Jeroen Burgerhout 

https://www.burgerhout.org/p/windows-365-wednesdays-windows-365-and-windows-autopatch


This post from Dustin Gullett takes a deep dive into the Intune Vulnerability agent included in your E5 SCUs

https://zerototrust.tech/intune-vulnerability-remediation-agent-what-it-really-does/


Video Content

Now for the video content starting with Dean Ellerby testing M365 Copilot Cowork to see how it works and more importantly what it costs here


Steve Weiner covers how to configure and use PIM in Entra here


Microsoft Content

This weeks only Microsoft content comes from Lia Vargas and covers how to use how to use Windows device recovery

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-device-recovery-in-2026-a-guide-for-it-pros/4541207


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

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