Week of 16 October 2026

System freezes, forced BitLocker recovery, broken OneDrive and LAN after June update. Pause/rollback recommended. HP devices worst affected.

👤 Adam Macintosh

Defender race condition spawns SYSTEM-level CMD on fully patched Win10/11. Patch in development. Application allowlisting prevents exploitation.

👤 Microsoft Security

Unified dashboard: sync, diagnostics, BitLocker keys and compliance all in one pane. Major admin UX improvement.

👤 Joymalya Basu Roy

Microsoft launched Application Inventory with new device view and Properties Catalog to capture installed app data across your fleet.

👤 Connor Dean

600+ orgs, 1,600 device types. Manages driver/firmware for ConfigMgr & Intune. New: filters, auto-update, searchable catalog.

👤 Maurice Daly

Microsoft removed 19 permissions from Global Admin. New Agent ID Administrator and Developer roles for the AI agent era.

👤 Antonio Russo

New SKU: 6 vCPU, 26GB RAM, 4GB vRAM. Entry-level GPU tier enables on-device AI image generation at lower cost.

👤 Jon Jarvis

Control Mode (single tasks) vs Outcome Mode (multi-step delegation). Most people underuse AI by prompting when they should be delegating.

👤 Nathan Rose

Quick reference covering device enrollment, compliance, app deployment and troubleshooting. Great for MD-102 prep.

👤 Sagar Aditya

Full lifecycle: packaging, detection rules, install workflows and troubleshooting. Excellent MD-102 prep resource.

👤 Anuradha Kumari

All enrollment methods covered. Recommends Apple Business Manager → ADE as the enterprise standard.

👤 Mohsin Tahir

Step-by-step guide to locking down Bluetooth via Intune policy. Note: may affect some Sony headsets.

👤 System Center Dudes

How to restrict AirDrop on Apple iOS devices through Intune MDM — practical enterprise security control.

👤 System Center Dudes

Why logs are essential for Intune troubleshooting and where to find the right ones for fast diagnosis.

👤 System Center Dudes

Free endpoint management tools plus PowerShell training sessions. Used by enterprise IT teams globally.

👤 Daniel Engberg

Course covering PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Intune automation, M365 admin, logging and scheduling best practices.

👤 Anuradha Kumari

Security fixes + Bluetooth LE Audio but severe stability issues. Test thoroughly before deploying to production.

👤 krehlik

PCs upgraded from Win10 21H2/22H2 get errors 0x80073712 / 0x800f0993. DISM workaround available.

👤 Pravin Balakrishnan

Years-long speed limit (200KB–4MB/s) resolved in June Patch Tuesday. Full-speed downloads now enabled.

👤 krehlik

Enablement package release. 24H2/25H2 can upgrade; 26H1 cannot. Enterprise support lifecycle: 36 months.

👤 Jason Melrose

Essential CMD commands: SFC, DISM, CHKDSK, network diagnostics. Save hours on common system issues.

👤 Tom Amollo

Top 5 causes: overheating, faulty PSU, RAM, disk errors, software conflicts. Practical prevention tips.

👤 Deepak Kumar

EDR updates now via Microsoft Update independently. Faster security response, fewer restarts, no more waiting for Patch Tuesday.

👤 Samuel Kofi

New OSConfig baseline on GitHub: Defender Antivirus, LAPS and SecuredCore CSV configurations for system hardening.

👤 Karl Wester-Ebbinghaus

Microsoft free event: Azure Databricks, Fabric and Storage. Includes 50% certification exam discount.

👤 Microsoft

New Entra update closes CA bypass loophole — all auth requests now subject to policy. Custom app developers should audit.

👤 Daniel Bradley

AI agent Cloud PCs from Microsoft Build: Entra-joined, Intune-managed isolated environments for enterprise AI agents.

👤 Microsoft Build

Enable delta downloads to cut WAN bandwidth. Admin path: Client Settings → Software Updates.

👤 Ranveer Shahi

Satya Nadella: companies can now customise frontier AI models with their own data via reinforcement learning.

👤 Satya Nadella

Microsoft & NVIDIA bringing local AI to Windows PCs. "Unmetered intelligence to every home and desk."

👤 Satya Nadella

"Less time debugging, more time shipping." Codex helps dev teams improve efficiency and stay on schedule.

👤 OpenAI

Part 2: running local AI models on dual AMD R9700 GPUs (32GB each) via ROCm. No cloud dependency.

👤 Timmy Andersson

Firebase Studio, Veo, Gemini Live, NotebookLM, Google AI Studio and more — all free from Google.

👤 Shabnam Parveen

Free Microsoft event Jun 22-26: AI platforms, governance, security and agentic AI across EMEA.

👤 Irina Gontcharova

Real AI challenge is post-pilot: sustainable production with clear ownership and governance.

👤 Ken Wong, Lenovo

Shared mailbox delegates getting duplicate sent items. Fix: set Outlook registry DelegateSentItemsStyle = 0.

👤 Vishal Shinde

Harm Veenstra & David Segura (PowerShell MVP, Recast) hosting a free live PowerShell session.

👤 Harm Veenstra

CVE-2026-42982 (Secure Kernel Mode EoP), CVE-2026-49164 (AD DS RCE), an MSMQ RCE, and CVE-2026-48561 (Edge Copilot RCE on iOS/Android). Confirm cumulative update ingestion and Edge 150.0.4078.96+ across your fleet.

👤 Microsoft · MSRC

An upcoming CA change evaluates downstream resources instead of excluded client apps, breaking iOS MAM redirect flows. Scoping affected policies to Office 365 instead of All Cloud Apps resolves it without weakening enforcement.

👤 Reddit · r/Intune

Any user enabled for SMS or voice MFA will be auto-enabled for passkeys on Sep 1, 2026, triggering registration prompts and overriding intentional exclusions unless the Authentication Methods Policy is updated first.

👤 Microsoft · Message Center

KB5101650 for Windows 11 24H2/25H2 adds a supported registry setting letting admins auto-accept SSO permission prompts on managed devices, addressing EU-regulation-triggered consent prompts.

👤 Microsoft · Tech Community

macOS Tahoe 26.5 resolves unexpected Platform SSO reregistration prompts on Intune-managed fleets and improves reliability of managed app update offers via self-service.

👤 Apple

Community tool update removes the Graph SDK dependency and adds coverage for App Configuration Policies and iOS LoB App Provisioning — faster ad-hoc assignment audits without chaining Graph calls.

👤 Reddit · r/Intune

Devices with LG monitors or ASUS hardware connected receive vendor app installers via Windows device metadata, bypassing Intune policy entirely. The Device Installation CSP setting blocking automatic driver app downloads stops it.

👤 Reddit · r/Intune

A June 2026 Dell firmware release still has not appeared in the Intune Driver Updates catalog after 6+ weeks, leaving 5520 devices exposed with no resolution yet from Dell or Microsoft.

👤 Microsoft · Tech Community

Dynamic Entra group membership resolving slowly during the technician phase causes user-scoped app assignments to be silently skipped in pre-provisioning. Static groups avoid the issue until Microsoft addresses the timing bug.

👤 Reddit · r/Intune