If you use Intune to manage your devices fleet, you may also be using the remote help feature allowing support desk team to remotely connect to devices to help end-users with their issue (Use Remote Help to Assist Users Authenticated by your Organization – Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn). There has been one thing with
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There has been a new Windows feature introduced few months ago called Windows Backup. Windows Backup is feature to allow streamlining devices transition during replacement process by backing up user settings and Microsoft Store app configurations. This feature has been turned off by default so far but with the incoming Windows 11 26H2 release later
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If you are managing client devices with Intune, you already know that you can inventory these devices to know their physical details, from battery type or level to video controllers. This inventory is done by implementing the Properties catalog configuration profile type. Well, this profile has been updated to allow you to also inventory registry
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When managing a fleet of devices with Intune, from time to time administrators need to force a device synchronization from the portal. Until then, administrators could not really follow the sync process and needed to wait few minutes for the device to report back to Intune. Well, good news as now, with the July release
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If you use Intune, you likely are deploying applications to devices. You may already be using the Enterprise App Catalog capability (which comes with either Intune Suite or the Enterprise Application Management add-on). In this case you already know that when a new version of the Enterprise App application is made available you need manually
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As you probably already know, Microsoft has introduce a feature to reduce the number of device restart after updates deployment on Windows, called Hotpatch (see Hotpatch updates | Microsoft Learn). Well, starting May 2026, Hotpatch will now be enabled by default for eligible devices. If your organization is not ready for Hotpatch, Intune administrators can
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If you are allowing/supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYPO), you may already have experienced unintentional mobile device management (MDM) enrolment for Entra registered devices because end-users does not really understand the prompt (“Allow my organization to manage my device”) they may receive when sign-in on applications. To avoid such unintentional enrollment, Intune now allows administrators
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As you know, with Intune you can package Windows applications (aka legacy, aka Intune package [Win32]). This package can include PowerShell scripts to perform the installation/uninstallation processes. When deploying such Win32 app, it could have been a bit complex as you had to use the command line to properly run the scripts, including parameters or
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You probably know that with Intune you can get administrators to approve, execute some tasks requiring special/temporary elevation/permission through multi-admin approvals, elevation requests or Defender security tasks. Unfortunately, until now all of these administrative requests were being handle from different Intune blades, making it a bit difficult and/or generating overhead by forcing switching from one
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If you use Microsoft Intune to manage your devices fleet, you already know that it can gather some device hardware details. Well, good news as now you can get more detailed hardware information from your Windows devices, covering more details about CPU, battery, hard drives, BIOS version or SIM information. To enable this capability you
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