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Intune – Creation of new Administrative Template profiles will no longer be possible

AS you know, Windows devices configuration with Intune is done by using Configuration Profile. For Windows, 2 profile types are available: Settings Catalog Templates Well, you need to prepare for the retirement of the Templates type starting the 2412 service release, scheduled for December. Starting this release, you will not be able to create new […]

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Intune – New look for the Company Portal on Windows

If you are using Intune to manage your devices and/or applications, you know that the Company Portal application is playing a big part in deploying applications and registering devices. Well, the Company Portal application for Windows is getting refreshed to provide a better user experience. This new design is supposed to more intuitive by providing

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Intune – Starting October 2024, Windows enrollment will automatically deploy quality updates

As you know, with Intune you can control when Windows Updates are being deployed using Update Rings profile. Well, starting October 2024, Windows 11 22H2 or later will start getting automatically any quality updates (aka Patch Tuesday updates) during the Out Of the Box Experience during the enrollment process. This means starting October, the enrollment

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Intune – You can now pause, revoke or delete your Cloud PKI

As you are probably aware, Microsoft has introduced a new Intune service – Cloud PKI – to deliver cloud based certification authority services (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2024/03/01/intune-new-cloud-pki-feature/). Well, this service has been updated to allow you to pause, delete or revoke your Cloud PKI. NOTE if you have create the Cloud PKI during the preview or before

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Intune – No more hardware hash requirement for Autopilot (preview)

Yes, you have been reading right, no more hardware hash pain for registering new device in Autopilot. If you are managing an Intune environment and using Autopilot, you already know that every new device must be registered in Autopilot using the hardware hash; which is painful if you can’t get this information from the manufacturer.

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Intune – Update your scripts to use a registered Entra ID application ID

If you use PowerShell to manage your Intune tenant, you are most probably using the Intune PowerShell application (d1ddf0e4-d672-4dae-b554-9d5bdfd93547). Well, as the global Microsoft Intune PowerShell application authentication is being deprecated, you need to create a new Entra ID Application and update your scripts using the application ID d1ddf0e4-d672-4dae-b554-9d5bdfd93547 to use your new custom application

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Intune – New Cloud PKI feature

  As you know, certificates are now widely used from securing network traffic (HTTPS) to authentication (certificate based authentication, VPN or WiFi authentication).   Until now, if you wanted to use certificates for authenticating devices or users, you had to deploy and use your own certificate authority, usually requiring an Active Directory domain and multiple

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Intune – You can now bulk manage drivers update

As you know, Intune has been allowing administrators to get drivers update pushed through the Windows Update feature. If you are using this capability to ensure your devices are running with updated version of drivers, you probably know this is a little bit painful as you have to manually approve each and individual other drivers

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Intune – You can now manage Windows Subsystem for Linux

As you are probably aware, since Windows 10 2004 you can install Subsystem for Linux on Windows to allow use both Windows and Linux at the same time (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install/). Unfortunately, until now you could not manage Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) using Intune. Well, good news as now the settings for WSL are available

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Intune – It is now easier to deal with Windows 11 Feature Update with unsupported devices

As you know, with Intune you can create Windows Feature Updates policies to manage Windows upgrade when a new version is released. Until now, it was not easy to deal with devices which did not meet the requirements for deploying Windows 11 versions. Well, good news as now you have an option to automatically exclude

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