Intune Newsletter - 22nd November 2024
A Microsoft Ignite special this week with some exciting Microsoft news further down and some community discussions around the announcements. I’ve also switched to Substack so hopefully this arrives without issue this week!
Community Content
We start this week with an incredible solution from Peter Klapwijk to rapidly offboard a user, including signing out from devices, revoking access, everything from one click. Something everyone should consider setting up ready, you never know when you might need it!
https://inthecloud247.com/revoke-user-access-in-case-of-an-emergency-with-a-single-click/
If you need custom registry keys based on Entra group membership, check out this script from Sebastian F. Markdanner
https://www.chanceofsecurity.com/post/intune-how-to-dynamic-registry-configuration-group-based
Jan Mulder runs through the key Ignite announcments for Intune here
https://wolkenman.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/microsoft-ignite-announcements-2024-intune-windows-365/
One of the exciting announcements is the new Windows 365 Link hardware as covered here by Rob Quickenden
https://robquickenden.blog/2024/11/windows-365-link/
Niklas Tinner also looks at Windows 365 link here
https://www.oceanleaf.ch/windows365link/
If you want to grab Windows 11 Feature Update assessment reports direct from devices, check out this script from Nick Benton
https://memv.ennbee.uk/posts/windows-feature-updates-assessment/
Following on from last weeks post covering Firefox, this one from Peter van der Woude runs through using Chrome with Conditional Access and device-based controls
This is one issue I often come across, getting the correct time zone when a machine first boots after Autopilot. Rudy Ooms runs through your options here
https://call4cloud.nl/fixing-time-zone-issues-in-windows-autopilot/
If you haven't yet used custom compliance scripts, try this guide from Michael Meier and see what you've been missing
https://mikemdm.de/2024/11/17/intune-custom-compliance-scripts/
If you are trying to work out where a registry key is being set, check out this guide from Eswar Koneti
Johan Vanneuville looks at the new dynamic autoscaling feature newly released for AVD here
https://johanvanneuville.com/avd/dynamic-autoscaling-for-azure-virtual-desktop
Video Content
Onto the video content, starting with a look at how to create a provisioning package without PC name from Chander Mani Pandey
We now have two Windows in the Cloud Ignite specials, the first discussing Windows 365 link with Christiaan Brinkhoff and Jalleen Ringer
The second video covers all of the Windows 365 and AVD Ingite news with Christiaan Brinkhoff and special guests
Microsoft Content
Now for the many exciting Ignite announcements from Microsoft, starting with the list of Intune related news from Talal Alqinawi
Learn the future of cloud native endpoint management and how to get there in this post from Lior Bela
Enhanced hardware inventory is also now GA as covered in Lior's second post
Next, Shravana Mukherjee looks at the Copilot functionality available in Intune
Following in the footsteps of Azure versions of Windows Server, hotpatch for Windows enterprise is here! Learn more from David Callaghan
Intune now supports Apple speciality devices as well, find out more here with Michael Clifford
Learn all of the new features in the 2411 release with Scott Sawyer
That's it for this week, have a great weekend!