Another busy week of travelling, I spent early this week at the office in Copenhagen planning what’s next for Tenant Manager and then on Sunday I’m off to Experts Live in Dubai (maybe see some of you there). Not long until Ignite either, I’ve no doubt that will be a special edition newsletter that week!
Community Content
We start this week with the fourth part of the series on Entra Auth Contexts from Sebastian F. Markdanner, this one covers monitoring with KQL queries amongst other things
Nicky De Westelinck continues the Android management series here, this part looking at Fully Managed user devices
Want to get the most out of your M365 subscription, check out some suggesting configurations across Defender in this post from Jeffrey Appel
2025 Microsoft Defender Optimization & Configuration Cheat Sheet
Shared Devices used to have OneDrive disabled which was always a bit tricky for disk space. That changed, but was still a pain to configure. Fortunately it’s now available in Settings Catalog as covered here by Peter van der Woude
Easier configuring Shared PC mode with OneDrive sync enabled
Switching your identities from on-prem AD to Entra to go fully cloud native? Check out this useful guide from Jan Mulder
Next, Martin Bengtsson has created a remediation to create an emergency break-glass account on your devices as well as being able to monitor it using MDE
Dominiek Verham takes a look at Windows 365 cloud apps here including an end-to-end run through on configuring and using it
With Intune shortly stopping support for iOS 17.0, if you want to identify them in your organisation, check out this script from Nicklas Ahlberg
If you want to deploy a connected cache node, this post from Jose Schenardie covers how to do so entirely using Autopilot
If you are just starting your Autopilot journey, this post from Craig Camacho is a great starting point
Video Content
Now onto the video content, starting with a guide on how to manage your Win11 25H2 deployment via update rings in this full end-to-end guide from Mark Oldham
Now Chander Mani Pandey looks at some tools available to view the Intune logs on a device
Learn how to (in my opinion, correctly), deploy M365 apps via Win32 app in this video from Manish Bangia
An absolutely critical part of any tenant, Conditional Access, yet many don’t give it the attention it deserves. This video from Jonathan Edwards covers how to set it all up
If you’re still on Windows 10, this guide (and scripts) from Steve Weiner is a must watch
Dean Ellerby has a follow-up on the previous Autopilot guide, this one showing how to get started with Autopilot Device Prep (sometimes called v2)
Microsoft Content
This weeks Microsoft content starts with a look at how to use Windows 365 front line (and link) to manage your call center workers from Tania Lima
The all important Windows News you can Use for October 2025 from Eric Moe is here, always worth reading!
If you’re still rocking Windows 10 with ESU, this guide from Jason Leznek runs through how to get the updates configured on commercial devices
With cloud native devices, traditional network protection often isn’t enough. Learn how to use Intune to setup your devices for zero trust in this post from Jon Callahan
That’s all for this week, have a great weekend and for those travelling to Experts Live, safe travels!