Intune, Microsoft Intune Suite

Microsoft Intune Suite

Here we have the recorded sessions from Tech Accelerator on Microsoft Intune Suite.

These sessions were held from April 11, 2023. It consists of a number of technical deep dives into the new features of Microsoft Intune Suite and the live Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) sessions.

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Apple Deployment Workshop with Simon Wheatley from Apple Training

Apple Deployment Workshop

In this 1-day workshop, participants learn about the skills, tools, and knowledge they need to deploy iOS devices and Mac computers. Discussions and hands-on activities guide participants through the decisions they must make when they deploy personally owned and organization-owned Apple devices.

The target audiences for this workshop are the following:

  • IT professionals who deploy and manage Apple devices
  • Technical sales professionals

26th June 2021 – Cliftons Training, Auckland

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Get ready for WWDC21

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on 8 June with the unveiling of exciting new updates coming to all Apple platforms later this year.

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The new way of managing Windows 10 settings with Microsoft Intune – Settings Catalog

Managing settings for Windows 10 with Microsoft Intune might be challenging because of the many different configuration profiles which are available today in Intune. To manage all settings we often need to make use of different configuration profiles and even use a custom profile to get the job done. With the introduction of the windows 10 Settings Catalog profile (in Preview), this might come to an end!

The Windows 10 Settings Catalog is a new option to start from scratch and select settings from the library of available Windows 10 settings. Settings Catalog profile is the first step to bring the settings together from multiple, existing configuration profiles and provide a better configuration experience for Intune admins.
At the moment of writing in the new profile, settings are available which are currently found in for example the Device Restrictions profile and expanded with existing Policy CSP settings which aren`t found in a current configuration profile.

It is expected that the ADMX-backed settings which were made available (for Windows Insider builds) in the past months are added to the configuration profile in the near future. At this moment if we want to configure these settings, we need to use a custom configuration profile. And also the ADMX-ingested settings (Office, OneDrive, Edge Chromium) will most likely find their way to the new profile.

Besides the single point of view for Windows 10 settings, also a better understanding of the configuration options of a setting has the focus of Microsoft.

In the end it should make our Intune admin lives a bit easier when this profile gets the General Availability state and replaces the current list of different profiles.

Task Sequence

End User Notification for Required Task Sequences

Here is the problem with end user notification through a required task sequence. If there is no user logged on, the notification errors out.

To get around this you can use a WMI Query condition on task sequence step. Try this on for size:

SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE UserName != NULL

This will check the local device to check if there is a logged on user. If no user is logged on, it will skip the user notification step.

Sorted!

Windows 10

Real-world Practices to Optimize Windows 10 Deployments

Awesome article on best practise in fine tuning Windows 10 deployments. The article from Microsoft provides clarity to IT professionals managing Windows 10 environments. It was published in March 2020 and focused on collecting real-world best practices. These can practices can help you and your organisation achieve update improvements while keeping your devices protected and productive. This guide is certainly helpful for me.

Optimizing Windows 10 update adoption.

Best Practices, configuration manager, Deployment, Endpoint Computing Devces, Microsoft 365, Windows 10

Calendar Approach for Keeping the Modern Workplace Up-to-date

A really good article about planning, preparing, and the deployment approach for servicing, Windows, Microsoft 365 apps and Endpoint Manager.

Windows 10 rapid deployment calendar

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/a-calendar-approach-for-keeping-the-modern-workplace-up-to-date/ba-p/1475666