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To all readers in USA, I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving! I feel like I should offer something for Black Friday, but everything here is already free…

Community Content

On with the content, starting with a recap of the EUC announcements at Ignite from Ola Ström

https://www.olastrom.com/2023/microsoft-ignite-2023-recap

Next, Sune Thomsen has updated the excellent remediation script to migrate your BitLocker keys to Entra. The update now includes support for all fixed drives on the device

https://blog.mindcore.dk/2023/11/how-to-migrate-bitlocker-keys-from-all-fixed-drives-to-microsoft-entra-id/

If you are using Azure VPN for your connections, follow this excellent guide from Peter van der Woude to configure and deploy the client to your Windows devices using Intune

https://www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/deploying-and-configuring-the-azure-vpn-client-app-on-windows-devices/

Niklas Tinner has released the second part of the Windows 365 series, this one looking at the technical considerations and pre-requisites before deploying your first cloud PC

https://oceanleaf.ch/windows-365-technical-design/

Learn about all of the new features in the 2311 release here with Jitesh Kumar

https://www.anoopcnair.com/intune-2311-november-update-new-features/

A second post from Jitesh, this one showing how to find the restart frequency of your Windows devices using Endpoint Analytics reports.

https://www.anoopcnair.com/windows-restart-frequency-endpoint-analytics/

We have a third post from Jitesh, this one showing how to switch users to administrators on a Windows 365 business machine

https://www.anoopcnair.com/local-admin-access-for-windows-365-business/

Following up on the previous post covering font installations on Windows, Prajwal Desai has released this post covering font installations on your macOS fleet.

https://www.prajwaldesai.com/install-fonts-on-macos-using-intune/

This script from Bruno Siqueira will quickly create a folder structure and download the required files for quickly packaging your Win323 apps with PSADT

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/win32-intune-app-template-creator-bruno-siqueira-mjmoe/

Not everyone has spare devices for testing each platform. For your Android devices, you can use Android Emulator as covered here by Malepati Naren

https://www.anoopcnair.com/android-virtual-device-for-intune-testing/

Niklas Rast looks at the LocalMDM PS Module in this post which is very useful for testing CSPs for custom Intune policies

https://niklasrast.com/2023/11/23/exploring-the-localmdm-powershell-module-a-tool-for-testing-oma-uri-commands/

This post and script from Niclas Andersson shows how to use Azure Runbooks to automate Group Tags in Autopilot and Intune

https://www.nianit.com/automating-windows-autopilot-group-tags/

Find out how to extend the Windows 365 alerts functionality in this post from Niklas Tinner

https://niklastinner.medium.com/custom-alerts-for-windows-365-50525098417e

This post and script from Florian Salzmann will ensure your devices are updated and ready for LAPS with April 2023 update

https://scloud.work/windows-laps-update/

Rudy Ooms has been doing further digging around Autopilot V2, have a look at the findings here:

https://call4cloud.nl/2023/11/the-wonderful-story-of-device-preparation/

Video Content

Now onto the video content, starting with a look a second look at DCM for macOS software update deployment (this one actually works) from Dean Ellerby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZhOM0h5Ofg

A second video from Dean, this one looking at the Settings Catalog import/export functionality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei6LeEHziGc

If you’re using provisioning packages to enrol your devices and hitting issues with CA, follow this video from Steven Weiner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZQ4BayU2IE

We have three more videos from Steve walking through setting up Autopilot (Parts 1,2 and 3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Ect-QMHc0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuYsd4IOBsA

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

Following on from last weeks video, Craig Camacho demonstrates how to completely block windows control panel and settings using Intune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RntEkYO45zw

The latest Tackling Tech video is here, this one looks at Universal print with Harjit Dhaliwal and Braeden Petruk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC6pNeWrsQ0

In this video, Johan Arwidmark interviews Niall Brady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdZzvDl03k

Microsoft Content

Now onto the Microsoft content, starting with an announcement I missed from Ignite (sorry Harjit) looking at all of the exciting additions to Windows from Harjit Dhaliwal

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/what-s-new-with-windows-at-microsoft-ignite-2023/ba-p/3980507

Learn about all of the exciting additions in the 2311 release here with Ramya Chitrakar

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-intune-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-intune-2311-november-edition/ba-p/3986487

For all of you Windows 10 users (firstly, move to Windows 11), Windows copilot is coming soon from Alan Meeus and Harjit Dhaliwal

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/copilot-coming-to-windows-10/ba-p/3984070

That’s it for this week, have an amazing weekend!