Windows 11

Intune – Remove preinstalled Windows Store apps

As IT administrator, you may want/need to remove preinstalled/default Windows Store apps (such as Solitaire, Feedback hub or Clipchamp). Until now, you had either to use script or deploy these applications from Intune in uninstall mode. Unfortunately, this does not block end-user to install again these applications (even if they eventually will be uninstalled again). […]

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Windows – Windows 11 25H2 is now available

Windows 11 25H2 is now available from Intune, My Visual Studio (aka MSDN), SCCM Software Update/WSUS but apparently not yet through Windows Update.   You can learn about known issues from there Windows 11, version 25H2 known issues and notifications | Microsoft Learn As part of the improvements: Support for Wi-Fi 7 for enterprise connectivity

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Windows / Intune – Phone Link has been blocked by your system administrator

Phone Link, previously known as Your Phone, is a Windows app that allows connecting Android or iOS phones to Windows computers. It enables access and manage various phone features directly from their PC, such as texts, calls, notifications, and photos. Well, recently, I faced the “This feature has been blocked by your system administrator” error

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Intune / Windows – Hotpatching now enabled by default for new Windows quality update policies

By now, you are probably aware about the hotpatching for Windows 11 and Windows Server (see Hotpatch updates | Microsoft Learn and Hotpatch for Windows Server | Microsoft Learn). As hotpatch has been available for Windows 11 clients for few months already, Microsoft has announced that it will now be enable by default for all

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Intune / Windows – Bad interaction between ThreatLocker and Windows Hotpatch

Well, another one bit the dust but this time is more related to a third party security product – ThreatLocker (Enterprise Cybersecurity Solutions | ThreatLocker) – wrongly blocking DLL’s patched with Hotpatch. If you have read my previous post (Intune / Windows ARM – Issue with May 2025 Patch Tuesday on ARM devices) about Hotpatch

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Intune / Windows ARM – Issue with May 2025 Patch Tuesday on ARM devices

As you may already know, Intune is offering a Hotpatch for Patch Tuesday to allow installing Windows Updates without having to restart devices (see Intune – Hotpatch is becoming available for client devices). Well, we (at the company I’m working for) found an issue with the May 2025 updates. After getting the May 2025 updates

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Windows – Windows 11 24 H2 is now available

The wait is over, the latest release of Windows 11 is now available for download and deployment. With this release, this also marks the end of support for Windows 10. You still have few months anyway as the official end of support for Windows 10 is October 14th, 2025 after this date your Windows 10

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Azure – Windows 11 23H2 virtual machine requires a subscription with no spending limit

As you know, we running workloads in the cloud cost management is an important part of your governance. In Azure, you have multiple ways to manage your spending (running) cost; one of them is setting up a spending limit at your subscription level (such as with developer subscription [aka Visual Studio subscription]). Well, if you

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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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Windows – The latest version of Windows 11 (23H2) is now available

  As you probably already know, a new version of Windows 11 – 23H2 – was coming.   Well, good news as this 23H2 version is now available. You can download it from your Visual Studio subscription (https://my.visualstudio.com/), using the Windows Media Creation Tool (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11) or even by using Intune Feature Update policy. NOTE I’m

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