The last newsletter before I need to consider a more spooky image for October! Plenty of not so spooky content this week and for all of you who attended AVD Techfest and/or Experts Live, I hope you had a great time!

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If you’re struggling with Lenovo T480 and HP 800 G4 devices causing Autopilot TPM related errors, check out this post with a workaround from Rudy Ooms

https://call4cloud.nl/2024/09/securechannelfailure-apps-failed/

We have a second troubleshooting post from Rudy, this one looking at an MDM Not Configured error

https://call4cloud.nl/2024/09/0x80180031-mobile-device-management/

Next, Claus Blaabjerg Hansen runs through the end-to-end configuration of Autopilot Device Prep

https://rolig.dk/?p=3703

After last weeks announcement of updates during OOBE, there was some pushback in the community and the planned change has now been postponed. Read more in this post from Michael Niehaus

https://oofhours.com/2024/09/20/cumulative-updates-during-oobe-never-mind/

Michael’s second post looks at the complexity of the OOBE process

https://oofhours.com/2024/09/24/how-complicated-is-oobe/

Michael also looks at the news of WSUS being deprecated and what it means for you if you are using it

https://oofhours.com/2024/09/24/microsoft-deprecated-wsus-should-you-care/

Jose Schenardie has found a way to create Teams or Slack requests when someone submits an Azure PIM request. Grab the logic app and code here

https://intune.tech/2024/09/23/Notifications-for-pim-elevation-requests.html

Wouldn’t it be great to have device identifiers automatically added to your tenant without having to pay your hardware supplier to do it for you. Fortunately Jon Towles has such a solution here, this example uses emails from CDW, but it can be adapted for others

https://mobile-jon.com/2024/09/23/automating-corporate-device-identifier-imports-with-power-automate-and-the-graph-api/

If you’re managing AVD with machines running from custom images, learn how to monitor them in this post from Joey Verlinden

https://www.joeyverlinden.com/setup-azure-monitor-for-vms-with-custom-image/

Do you want to give your users more control over when their machines update? Learn how to use device categories to accomplish this with Nick Benton here

https://memv.ennbee.uk/posts/updates-self-service-deployment

For those of you using the excellent IntuneWin32App PowerShell module from Nickolaj Andersen, you now need to create an app reg for it after a Microsoft change. Find out how in this post

https://msendpointmgr.com/2024/09/23/setup-app-registration-for-usage-with-intunewin32app-module/

Next, we have a full Windows 365 getting started guide from Maxime Guillemin

https://cloudflow.be/windows-365-from-zero-to-hero-series-part-1-getting-started/

If you need to quickly add/remove items from the hosts file, try this remediation from Niels Kok

https://www.nielskok.tech/intune/set-hosts-file-via-intune/

Sometimes you have an app which must be running at all times, if this applies to you, check out this post from Simon Skotheimsvik

https://skotheimsvik.no/intune-hack-keep-critical-app-running

Learn how to renew the Apple SCIM token in this post from Jan Mulder

https://wolkenman.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/renew-apple-scim-token-directory-sync/

Video Content

Now for the video content starting with a selection from Steve Weiner with the first video showing how to access your on-prem Hyper-V servers offsite using Azure Arc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2C1kOe8vHQ

There is also an exciting new tool called ZeroTouch.ai which has burst onto the scene and having tried it myself, is well worth checking out. Steve looks at a couple of the key features in these two videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhY83js72tA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nktkCWlRYuE

Steve also looks at how to active Windows with Intune here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRvyl7FLcSs

Niklas Tinner runs through Intune troubleshooting steps in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_MwSuYGe8o

Microsoft Content

Now onto this weeks Microsoft content, starting with the news that Intune will support Apple Intelligence as covered here by the Intune support team

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/microsoft-intune-support-for-apple-intelligence/ba-p/4254037

If you’re running userless iOS/iPadOS devices, check out this support tip

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/support-tip-intune-mam-users-on-ios-ipados-userless-devices-may/ba-p/4254335

The Intune partner portal has extended again, Dell has now joined the club alongside HP and Microsoft. Read more in this post from Lior Bela

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-intune-blog/intune-expands-oem-integration-in-partner-portal/ba-p/4253264

This post from the Intune support team shows how to protect your corporate data using MAM and Edge

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/protect-your-corporate-data-using-microsoft-edge-for-mobile/ba-p/4255220

Have a look at everything in the latest Intune release here from Scott Sawyer

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-intune-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-intune-september-2024/ba-p/4255537

That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!