Back again already, some weeks I feel like I finish putting together one newsletter and immediately start the next! A slightly lighter week this week, but it is holiday season so everyone is hopefully off enjoying themselves before it all begins again next month (including conference season resuming)
Community Content
Have you ever wanted to automatically generate filters for every Windows version including dealing with those which just don’t match the standard numbering scheme? You’re in luck, check out this post and script from Ben Whitmore
https://msendpointmgr.com/2026/08/01/intune-assignment-filters-windows-builds/
If you have seen the new AI enabled cloud PC report in the portal and want to know how it’s working in Graph, try this post from Andrei Shchetkin
https://shchetkin.dev/reverse-engineering-the-intune-portal-the-ai-enabled-cloud-pc-report/
This post from Jan Mulder digs deep into the new Shadow AI detection now in preview and how it all works
https://wolkenman.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/intune-and-ai-shadow-ai-detection/
macOS has finally caught up with Windows compliance and now supports custom compliance. This post from Somesh Pathak runs through how to use it
https://intuneirl.com/custom-compliance-comes-to-macos-going-beyond-the-built-in-policy/
Entra password policies are, well, basically non-existent. So what do you do if you want to force password restrictions? Enter device lock policies within Intune as covered in-depth here by Nicky De Westelinck
Jannik Reinhard looks at all of the functionality currently available in Security Copilot
https://jannikreinhard.com/security-copilot-agents-intune/
Passkey is soon to be the preferred auth method and the end of SMS as MFA. Learn more about this change here from Shehan Perera
https://emsroute.com/2026/08/06/system-preferred-authentication-and-passkeys/
Video Content
Now for this weeks video content, starting with part 1 in a new series from Manish Bangia covering Intune Compliance policies. This one looks at the baseline features in a Windows Compliance Policy
Microsoft Content
Onto this weeks Microsoft content with the all-important Windows News You can Use for July from Chris Morrissey
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 is going EOL in January. Find out what this means for you here with Jason Leznek
That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!