A slightly quieter week this week with everyone probably wrestling 26H2 and working out which policies to replace the latest Copilot button
Community Content
We start this week with a very useful PowerShell script from Philip Jorgensen for all of you managing Lenovo devices. Quickly create assignment filters for your various different models without needing to go and find all of the model codes with this script!
https://blog.lenovocdrt.com/creating-intune-assignment-filters-for-lenovo-models/
If you’re managing personal devices with App Protection, you have no doubt hit the issue where your users need to be able to access something in a non-managed app and either you’re left opening a security hole or getting shouted at. Lucky for you, Kenneth van Surksum has a thorough guide here to make exceptions
For those of you with AVD or Windows 365 machines (or now RDP), learn how to manage the Windows app here from Peter van der Woude
https://petervanderwoude.nl/post/easily-managing-windows-app-on-windows-devices/
Next, James Vincent looks at the new Deployment Plans functionality recently released
https://jamesvincent.co.uk/2026/10/05/intune-deployment-plans-pilot-rollout/
If you’re managing Microsoft Surface devices, learn all about the surface management portal here from Mr T-Bone
https://www.tbone.se/2026/10/05/intune-surface-management-portal-the-hidden-gem/
T-Bone also looks at the new Microsoft hardware announced this week here
https://www.tbone.se/2026/10/08/windows-got-hybrid-intelligence-and-i-neeeed-a-surface-ultra/
Are you wondering how many of the new features in 26H2 you can manage with Intune now? If so, this post from Joe loveless is for you!
https://joeloveless.com/blog/intune-settings-catalog-settings-win11-26h2
You may have noticed there are now two places where you can configure some Windows 365 settings, including setting users as admins (which with the end of dev boxes is a valid use case). If you want to be able to automate it, check out this guide from Aresh Sarkari
Grabbing logs from Windows devices is just a button press, but what if you want to send your macOS logs to AppleCare? Learn how in this post from Somesh Pathak
https://intuneirl.com/trigger-enhanced-log-collection-on-macos-27-with-intune-tokens-logs-and-fixes/
Assignments are one of these which are very environment specific, but there are always some situations which are best done in a certain way. Learn about some of these in this post from Jorge Suarez
https://www.jorgeasaur.us/intune-assignments-dos-and-donts
If you are managing Apple devices and want to know exactly how DDM is managing your updates, check out this excellent post from Kevin Malinoski
https://malinoski.me/2026/10/08/are-you-managing-your-apple-updates-or-are-they-managing-you/
Video Content
Now for the video content, starting with an in-depth look at what’s available with Security Copilot for Intune here from Saurav Sarkar
Steve Weiner runs through the new deployments functionality here and how best to use it
Entra Risk policies are now retired, learn what it means for you here from Jonathan Edwards
Microsoft Content
Onto this weeks Microsoft content starting with the all important Windows News you can use from Chris Morrissey
Windows app finally has support for RDP connections! Learn more here from Marvin Quinzon
That’s all for this week, have an amazing weekend!