Welcome everyone! This weeks newsletter is coming to you live from Copenhagen and as you read this I will be in a very exciting company event planning all of the exciting things coming to Robopack and Tenant Manager. This was scheduled last night so anything I’ve missed from this morning will be included next week.
Community Content
We start this weeks newsletter with a useful post for those of you on E5 licensing. Now you get Remote Help for free, just what can it do for you? Find out here with Simon Skotheimsvik
Intune Remote Help – The Deep Dive Now That It’s Included In Your E5
With the upcoming retirement of SMS MFA, learn how to modernize your whole Entra auth flow in this comprehensive post from Kenneth van Surksum
From IST to SOLL: A Field Guide to Modernizing Entra ID Authentication
We have part two of the excellent series on automating your AVD builds here from Michael Meier. This one covers installing applications into your new base image
Using Azure Image Builder to build your custom VM Images – Part 2
On the subject of AVD, this guide from Niels Kok runs through using PowerShell to automate your AVD Hybrid deployments
If you have ever wondered how to automate Win32 app creation using Graph, it is unexpectedly complicated. Learn exactly what is going on behind the scenes in this in-depth guide from Ben Whitmore
Creating a Win32 App in Intune with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph: The Ultimate Guide
Edge Extensions are rapidly becoming the browser toolbars of the early 2000s (hands up if you are old enough to remember those!). Fortunately you can at least monitor extensions using the free Edge Management UI. Learn how here from Jörgen Nilsson
Many people excited about this one, using Properties Catalog to grab registry information from your devices remotely as covered here by Peter van der Woude
Do you really know what AI agents are running in your estate? If you’re not sure, this post from Dustin Gullett runs through how to use MDE to find out exactly what’s happening out there.
https://zerototrust.tech/discover-local-ai-agents-microsoft-defender-endpoint/
Using memberof is being deprecated in Azure so now is the time to check just where you are using it before your groups stop working. Find out more in this post from Driek Desmet
Microsoft Entra memberOf Retirement: What Admins Should Check Before Dynamic Groups Stop Updating
This post from Jeffrey Appel looks at how to use Defender Logging and hunting to look at what has changed across your environment
Auditing Microsoft Defender and Intune Configuration Changes
Video Content
Now for the video content, starting with a method to bulk onboard your devices into MDE using Intune from Chander Mani Pandey
A script you should all be using for your autopilot devices to check they are ready to be deployed. Learn all about it here from Steve Weiner
Microsoft Content
Onto this weeks Microsoft content with a delivery optimization theme going on. We start with a look at the delivery optimization troubleshooting PowerShell module from Andy Rivas
If you haven’t yet configured Delivery Optimization, learn why you should in this post from Carlos Diaz and Jason Sandys
That’s all for this week, have an amazing weekend!