Microsoft Intune

Intune – Desktop analytics is being retired on November 2022

For those working in hybrid environment with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Intune, you may already know Desktop Analytics, the cloud service providing insights from your devices fleet to help you plan Windows feature upgrade. Well, Desktop Analytics is planned for being retired on November 30, 2022. Replacement of Desktop Analytics is the new […]

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Intune – You can now have a clear understanding of your Surface devices (preview)

If you use Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager for managing your client devices and have deployed Surface devices in your environment, you can now have a better understanding of your Surface. A new dashboard has been introduced specifically for Surface management to help you manage your Surface fleet. NOTE if you use the dark mode you will

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Intune – Autopilot is getting an update which will remove the personal greeting

As you know, Windows Autopilot allows you to automatically manage Out Of the Box Experience (OOBE) for your end user to directly join the device to your tenant in addition of ensuring naming convention and initial mandatory applications are deployed. As part of the Autopilot feature, you can assign a device to a specific user

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Windows 11 – Check if your devices are Windows 11

With the release of the new Windows 11, you can check if your devices are ready for it using Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager. To identify which devices are ready or not for Windows 11, connect to your Intune portal (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/) and access the Reports\Endpoint Analytics\Work from anywhere blade Then access the Windows tab to get the

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Intune – New unified certificate connector for Intune

As you may know you can use Intune to provide user or device certificate capabilities like: Private and public key pair (PKCS) certificates PKCS imported certificates Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) Certificate revocation This requires the use of a certificate connector.Well, until now, if you wanted to provide multiple certificate capabilities you had deploy multiple

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Intune – You can now format the description of the applications you deployed

As you know Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager can be used to deploy applications (either LOB [MSI, MSIX, APPX…] or Win32 apps [Intune package]). While deploying applications with Intune, the description field of the deployment is a mandatory field and not much look at as this is usually prepopulated by Intune using the application name. Well, you

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Intune – You can now supersede applications

Well, this has been a long awaited feature in Intune which is now available in preview: deploy application which supersede a previous one. The current state of this feature only applies for Intune package (aka Windows app (Win32)); this is not yet (?) available for MSI applications. You can configure the supersedence during the application

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Intune – You can now block printing using non-corporate network printers or non-approved USB printer

You can now control which printers your user can print on. Connect to your Endpoint Configuration Manager portal (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/) and access the Devices\Windows\Configuration profiles blade to create a new custom profile   Then you need to configure the following OMA-URI to block printing from non approved printers and define the approved printers. You can configure

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Azure AD – New administration role available to delegate Windows Updates settings

A new Azure Active Directory administration role is available – called Windows update deployment administrator – to delegate Windows Updates deployments through Windows Update for Business. This role allows you to delegate Windows Update for Business settings like when and how updates are deployed to devices. This will help you delegate Windows Update for Business

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Intune – Administrators can now locate devices

When you manage a fleet of devices, it is some time important to be able to locate these devices, especially when reported lost or stolen by end-users before requesting a remote wipe. Well, Intune administrators can now request to locate a Windows device from the Endpoint Configuration Manager portal (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/). To locate a device, connect

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