In case you have avoided all social media this week, it has been Microsoft Build and there have been a few Intune/Windows/W365 announcements (buried deep within the AI stuff) so be sure to check those out below
Next week I’m off to Experts Live UK in London to help run the pre-day workshop as well as 2 sessions on the Friday with David Brook and Steve Weiner. If you’re there, I hope you find them useful. As I’ll be mid-conference this time next week, I will attempt to get the scheduler to work on here, but be prepared for some delays…
Now, the reason you are all here:
Community Content
We start this week with a look at the Yellowkey BitLocker ‘exploit’ which has been everywhere! Learn more including how to mitigate it using Intune in this post from Mads Johansen
https://evil365.com/intune/Yellowkey-Debacle/
If you need to pin specific websites to the start menu in your multi-app kiosks, try this guide from Peter van der Woude
Using Microsoft Edge secondary tiles in the Start layout and multi-app kiosk mode
A new public preview feature, you can now restore devices deleted in Entra (not Intune yet sadly). Learn how in this post from Daniel Bradley
If you are running older hardware and not sure what to do about the secure boot certificate expiry, try this post from Niall Brady
If you are managing Lenovo devices and want to manage your own local update repository, check out this new tool from Joe Parker
https://blog.lenovocdrt.com/introducing-thinkvantage-repository-manager
For all SMEs out there, Andy Jones looks at the different security benchmarks available to you with some very useful suggestions here
Cyber Essentials vs CIS v Zero Trust: Where Should UK SMEs Start with Cyber Security?
Video Content
Now for this weeks video content, starting with a look at whether to use the Security Defaults in Entra from Jonathan Edwards
Here is a quick look at how Windows 365 reserve works
The latest Secure Boot AMA is out featuring Arden White, Kevin Sullivan, Scott Shell, Richard Powell and Jason Sandys
Steve Weiner covers how to activate Windows on your Entra joined devices here
Chander Manu Pandey looks at the YellowKey exploit here
Microsoft Content
Onto this weeks Microsoft content (build special) starting with a nice addition to Windows 365, you can now do context based redirections to further improve the security. Learn more here from Derek Su
Some exciting updates to Kerberos to try and reduce NTLM dependency in this post from Mariam Gewida
A lot of Windows 365 announcements, all covered here by Bhavya Chopra
And of course the all-important Windows news you can use from Chris Morrissey
A new optimized Teams experience for RemoteApp/CloudApp is now GA, learn more here from Pavithra Thiruvengadam
That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!
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