It’s time for the holiday special and this will probably be the last newsletter of 2025, I’ll be back with a double edition in the New Year after a much needed rest with the family.
A special thanks to everyone who has contributed this year for your incredible content and of course to you, the readers who make it all worthwhile!
Community Content
We start this week with a look at what to do when your Intune/Autopilot device doesn’t link up to the correct Entra device and you’re stuck with duplicates from Martin Himken
The disconnected Entra double computer object problem – Part 1
On the subject of Entra devices, Mr T-Bone has updated this script to cleanup those stale devices
Updated My Script To “Cleanup Entra ID Devices”, Faster and better logging
A new Microsoft CVE has blocked some scripts from running if using invoke-webrequest and the list all remediations from Damien Van Robaeys is one of them. Fortunately Damien also has the fix here
https://www.systanddeploy.com/2025/12/list-all-intune-remediation-scripts.html
If you’re looking to get started with Intune Agents, check out this guide from Gerry Hampson looking first at the change review agent
http://gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.com/2025/12/my-first-look-at-intune-agents.html
Gerry also looks at the Device Offboarding agent here
https://gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.com/2025/12/my-first-look-at-intune-agents-continued.html
Ever wanted to know exactly what is going on during Windows provisioning? Wonder no more, Joymalya Basu Roy has the answers here
Gannon Novak has released a new script to migrate your printers from a print server to Intune including packaging into Win32 and deploying to company portal
PrintServerToIntune – Migrate Printers to Intune as TCP/IP Connections
Next, Niall Brady and Paul Winstanley take a look at the AI-enabled cloud PCs now available within Intune (on high spec machines anyway)
For those using the Intune Connector for AD for hybrid domain join, it has had another update. Find out what’s new and some things to look for here from Thomas Marcussen
Microsoft Intune Connector for Active Directory – Updated and Improved
If you want to get a good look at your PIM roles and any potential security holes, check out this new app from Joël Prins
https://intothecloud.eu/p/pimmanager
FSLogix on AVD with Entra Kerberos always used to need a less secure storage key stored on the session hosts. There is now a better alternative and this comprehensive guide from Justin Verstijnen will help you get started
Azure Virtual Desktop FSLogix and Native Kerberos authentication
For those looking to get started with MAM for Windows (Edge), Nicky De Westelinck has a guide here for you (I would personally add an additional CA to block anything non-M365 too)
Mobile Application Management for Windows: Complete Microsoft Intune Setup Guide
Learn all about the new Autopatch CVE reports in this post from Michael Morten Sonne
This post from Sucheta Gawade digs into all things Windows 365 Frontline
Michael Frank compares W365 to AVD here
https://michaelsendpoint.com/virtualization/win365/cloud_pc.html
Getting SharePoint to sync via Intune is still a lot more tricky than it probably needs to be, but lucky for you, Tobias Eriksson has a guide here to get you up and running!
https://tob-it.se/the-complete-lifecycle-of-sharepoint-sync-in-intune-add-it-accelerate-the-sync-from-intune-remove-it-and-how-it-compares-to-add-shortcut-to-onedrive/
Video Content
Onto the video content starting with two videos from Manish Bangia, the first looks at Intune filters, what is available, how to make them and how to use them
Manish also runs through how to get started with Autopilot Device Preparation
Next, Jonathan Edwards looks at the exciting new Intune Suite functionality soon to be bundled into your M365 E3 and E5 licensing
Steve Weiner looks at EPM and how to configure it from the reports available within Intune
The latest Windows in the Cloud video sees Christiaan Brinkhoff chat to Phil Gerity about the future of Windows Cloud and AI
Microsoft Content
On with the Microsoft content with the latest skilling snack from Reanne Wong looking at AI on Copilot PCs
If you have missed some of the other skilling snacks, this page from Chris Morrissey lists them all
That’s it for this week and this year. Have a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year! I’ll be back in 2026 with more news and articles