A lot of excitement this week about the solar eclipse, I’m old enough to remember the one in 1999! Hopefully you all managed to see it one way or another.
Next weeks newsletter will probably be scheduled, I’m over at a Robopack company event planning the exciting functionality we will soon be bringing to your favourite Intune companion apps! If I miss anything, I’ll make sure to include it in the week after.
Community Content
We start this week with two posts from Nicky De Westelinck, the first looking at all of the exciting new features for Android Enterprise Intune users.
Nicky’s second post covers end-to-end integration of Samsung Knox E-FOTA and Intune, very useful for the no doubt many of you managing Samsung devices.
We finally have a better overview of the black box behind the sync button with the new Device Action Status. Find out more about it here with Craig Camacho
https://thedeploymentguy.co.uk/microsoft-intune-device-action-status/
A change which happened more quietly than expected. Microsoft are retiring the Windows 365 User Settings to move instead to Cloud PC Settings. If you are managing Windows 365 devices, check out this guide from Dieter Kempeneers to migrate them
https://kempeneers.eu/2026/08/08/windows-365-user-settings-are-being-retired-migrate-now/
If you are still managing AVD with golden images and want to move to something more modern, learn how to use Azure Image Builder in this first part of a new series from Michael Meier
https://mikemdm.de/2026/08/09/using-azure-image-builder-to-build-your-custom-vm-images-part-1/
For those of you deep in Graph, you’ll no doubt have noticed the new WAM option when connecting. Learn all you will ever need to know about it here with Ben Whitmore
https://msendpointmgr.com/2026/08/09/microsoft-graph-sdk-wam/
Next, Rahul Jindal looks at what the move to passwordless authentication means for your zero trust journey
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2026/08/microsoft-entra-makes-passwordless.html
With the removal of legacy auth methods in Entra, Jon Towles looks at how to transfer to passkeys in your tenant
Another week, another change to the start menu (bring back Windows 95 list please). Fortunately Peter van der Woude shows how to customize the new folders using Intune here
https://petervanderwoude.nl/post/customizing-the-pinned-folders-in-start-layout/
Learn how to configure Autopatch with Windows 365 here from Jeroen Burgerhout
This post from Dustin Gullett takes a deep dive into the Intune Vulnerability agent included in your E5 SCUs
https://zerototrust.tech/intune-vulnerability-remediation-agent-what-it-really-does/
Video Content
Now for the video content starting with Dean Ellerby testing M365 Copilot Cowork to see how it works and more importantly what it costs here
Steve Weiner covers how to configure and use PIM in Entra here
Microsoft Content
This weeks only Microsoft content comes from Lia Vargas and covers how to use how to use Windows device recovery
That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!