Andrew Taylor 
Welcome to the festive special newsletter with some last minute content before the holidays! Community Content We start this week with a guide covering best practices when looking to migrate from on-prem GPO managed to Intune, cloud management from James Robinson https://skiptotheendpoint.co.uk/the-ultimate-gpo-to-intune-guide/ If you have specific machines which you don’t want users to be able … Read more
It’s the penultimate newsletter before Christmas and hopefully the festivities are in full swing wherever you are. This content is still flowing in thick and fast though! Community Content We start this week with a look at the data leakage prevention options in Windows 365, how to configure them and how they look from Peter … Read more
We are well into December now and there are definitely more hours in the dark than in daylight. Fortunately we have some ideal reading for those cold winter nights (or warm summer nights if you are south of the equator) Community Content Starting us this week, Jon Towles looks at how Intune compares to VMware … Read more
Welcome to December, it may be getting colder, but it’s also getting a lot more festive! We have a special edition newsletter this week with the Microsoft Tech Takeoff event so I have added an extra section with all of the exciting content shared during it, well worth checking out! Community Content We start this … Read more
I’ve been using Winget for a while now and whilst it’s fantastic, the command line interface sometimes wasn’t ideal, especially as I tend to live in PowerShell and like to be able to manipulate the output a bit. For my winget scripts, I have been using some functions put together for an old Microsoft event … Read more
To all readers in USA, I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving! I feel like I should offer something for Black Friday, but everything here is already free… Community Content On with the content, starting with a recap of the EUC announcements at Ignite from Ola Ström https://www.olastrom.com/2023/microsoft-ignite-2023-recap Next, Sune Thomsen has updated the excellent … Read more
Welcome to the post-Ignite newsletter. I hope all of you who managed to attend in person had a great time! Community Content We start this week with a guide on how to further secure your Android devices using Defender for Android from Niklas Rast https://niklasrast.com/2023/11/14/empowering-android-enterprise-security-with-microsoft-defender-for-android/ A second post from Niklas, this time a requirements script … Read more
The days are getting shorter and the weather is definitely getting colder, but the content keeps coming, what a community! Community Content We start this week with this post from Abhinav Rana on how you can stop your users from changing the network on their devices https://www.anoopcnair.com/do-not-display-network-selection-ui-intune/ If you want to protect your BitLocker recovery … Read more
Winget is an excellent tool, but in some organizations you may not want to use the community repo (although all apps are checked), or you may want to host your own internal apps, but deploy and update via Winget. One option is to simply use a custom manifest which I have covered here The more … Read more
Sometimes when running scripts in the system context with Intune we need to query the local user, whether that is the registry, or the local drive (Requirements scripts, detection scripts where you can’t switch to current user are a good example) Using the environment variables won’t work at the system level as it will just … Read more
