Welcome to December! The tree is up and things are starting to feel more festive around here.
I’m off to Workplace Ninjas US next week in (hopefully) sunny Dallas, if you’re attending, come and say hello, or avoid all eye contact.
Some very big licensing news in the Microsoft content, make sure you check that out!
It’s AMA week this week so you have a selection of videos from Microsoft to enjoy below…
Community Content
We start this week with a look at some of the key Windows and Intune announcements at Ignite from Ola Ström
Machines handle updates better than ever before thanks to Autopatch, but blocking outdated machines is still a bit…outdated and involves manually updating OS versions in compliance policies. This post from GK shows how you can use custom compliance to do the hard work for you, it even has the powershell and JSON you will need!
Enhancing Windows Patch Compliance in Intune with Custom Policies
You may have noticed AI Agents are quite popular at the moment and there are a lot of them! If you want some control over them, check out the new Conditional Access for Agent ID functionality as covered here by Dustin Gullett
AI Agents Are Swarming Your Tenant. How Conditional Access for Agent ID Keeps Them in Check
Intune 2511 release has introduced some new features for Android management. Find out about them in this post from Nicky De Westelinck
What’s New for Android in Microsoft Intune 2511: November 2025 Highlights
Nicky also looks at the Windows backup for enterprise functionality here
Windows Backup for Organizations: A Modern Approach with Microsoft Intune
Next, Peter van der Woude looks at the very useful Windows 365 apps functionality
Conditional Access just keeps improving, you can now remediate risk for all authentication methods with new functionality in preview. Learn more here from Daniel Bradley
How to Enable Require Risk Remediation in Conditional Access
If you want to get rid of the widgets like the weather in Windows 11, try this quick guide from Justin Verstijnen
Now for two posts from Florian Salzmann, the first looking at the secure boot certificate expiry in 2026, what you need to do about it and a remediation to help you along
https://scloud.work/intune-secure-boot-certificate-updates/
Florian’s second post shows how to use nested virtualization to run hyper-v VMs within an Azure VM (very useful for when you need a lab accessible anywhere)
https://scloud.work/hyper-v-azure-with-dhcp/
Video Content
This weeks video content features a lot of Tech Community Live AMA sessions, starting with Windows Backup management from Joe Lurie, Surabhi Calla, Nikita Deshpande and Chris Tulip
The second AMA covers how to manage AI from Linh Tong, Aria Hanson, Eric Moe and Jesse Bishop
Now learn all about Windows backup in this AMA with Nate Nielsen, Miranda Leschke, Yiman Huang and Shilpa Narang
This AMA covers Windows Accessibility with Joe Lurie, Laurie Allen and Ben Watt
We also have a Windows 365 AMA from Christian Montoya, Lavanya Kasarabada, Killian McCoy, Elaine You and Serena Zheng
Microsoft Content
Now for this weeks Microsoft content, starting with the Windows News You can Use for November from Eric Moe
A highlight of the year for any Intune admins, the holiday reading list from Lior Bela and this one is a treasure trove of MVP content
The one you all want to read, Intune Suite in E5 and parts in E3, here are the official announcements, firstly from Nicole Herskowitz
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/?p=280387
A look from the Intune specific side from Talal Alqinawi
And a very neat graphic representation in this post from Lior Bela
There is a new autopatch report specifically for CVEs, find out more from Surabhi Calla
That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!