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Intune – Enable Personal Data Encryption for added security

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As you know, Windows devices with OneDrive client allows your end-users to redirect their personal folders (Documents, Desktop….) to OneDrive. This allows leveraging some security capabilities provided by SharePoint Online/OneDrive, such as versioning or ability to recover complete OneDrive space in case of corruption or encryption by malware. This also replace the ‘old school’ roaming […]

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Windows – Windows 11 24 H2 is now available

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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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Windows – Local Administrator Password Solution is now integrated with Windows

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If you are an IT professional, you probably already know the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) to manage the local administrator account password. Well, good news as with the April 2023 updates, LAPS is now directly integrated with Windows; no more need to deploy the local LAPS agent. It is now integrated with: Windows 1x

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Windows – The new Windows 11 edition – 22H2 – is now available

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The new Windows 11 edition – Windows 11 22H2 – is now available. You can download it from your MSDN (https://my.visualstudio.com/downloads) or Volume License subscription (https://www.microsoft.com/vlsc) or the Software Center using the Installation media or Media Creation Tool (https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11). It is also available for Windows 365 or Azure Virtual Desktop. If your organization uses Intune/Endpoint

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Windows – Control Internet Explorer retirement with group policy and Intune device configuration

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As you know, Internet Explorer has been part of the Windows world for quite some time (first released in August 1995) and is now unsupported and being discontinued by being replaced by more modern web browser like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. In May 2021, Microsoft has announced the 2 steps retirement phases for Internet

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