Andrew Taylor 
With the recent changes to the store, both the Intune integration and the new Windows 11 store, you may want to restrict what your users can install. Blocking the store completely is an option, but that will stop your Windows apps from updating (including the likes of calculator and notepad) and also block any apps … Read more
Welcome to a holiday special newsletter, this week coming to you from the little island of Anglesey in North Wales! Community Content Video Content Microsoft Content Community Content We start this week with a post from Michael Niehaus looking at why after the announcement of 23H2 as an enablement package should be the push you … Read more
Welcome one and all, the year is going far too fast, but the content keeps on coming! Community Content Video Content Microsoft Content Community Content We start this week with the first part of a series from Rudy Ooms looking at the Windows Deployment Configuration, EPM and the Refresh Schedule deployed when configuring EPM The … Read more
After the addition of App support using Winget, I had a few requests for the policy backup/restore to also support assignments. Assignments It turns out, it is not as easy as I was expecting. Within Graph, the assignments are based on group ID and obviously the group ID won’t be the same between tenants so … Read more
Welcome to another newsletter, with some hopefully happy and relieved renewed MVPs! Community Content Video Content Microsoft Content Community Content We start this week with a look at Organizational messages within Intune, what you can use them for and also how you can use PowerShell to create your own with more flexibility from Michael Meier … Read more
Some exciting news today, the Microsoft Graph SDK V2 has been released and it has some changes which could cause you problems! You can find out more about the changes here: https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-powershell/blob/dev/docs/upgrade-to-v2.md The key things to note from an Intune perspective: Select-MgProfile is no longer used Access token needs to be encrypted Beta commands are … Read more
Welcome to this weeks newsletter marking the end of June and for the MVPs reading this, the week before renewal date, I am keeping my fingers crossed for all of you! Community Content Video Content Microsoft Content Community Content We start this week with the second part of Simon Hartmann Eriksen‘s series looking at moving … Read more
An exciting new addition to the IntuneBackup.com website, I have added the ability to deploy applications via the GUI. The app deployment at present uses the Winget community repository (when Advanced App Management is released by Microsoft, I will try and add that as an alternative) After clicking on the Deploy Apps menu, you will … Read more
Welcome to this weeks newsletter with a whole additional section for some Tech Community Live videos direct from Microsoft. This is also the first newsletter running from a new mailing application so fingers crossed if you are a subscriber you are reading this! Community Content Video Content Tech Community Live Videos Microsoft Content Community Content … Read more
A feature fresh into Public Preview, Application Control using either a GUI for standard settings, or you can upload a custom WDAC XML. I’m not going to go into how to configure it because that is well described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/protect/endpoint-security-app-control-policy For creating your XML, WDAC Wizard is your friend: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-application-control/wdac-wizard As usual, the first thing … Read more