Week of 6 July 2026

Passkey policy now gets dedicated 20KB allocation, Platform SSO automated on macOS, new Global Secure Access Operations Guide.

After June 30, any CA policy using only Require approved client app will stop enforcing. MSPs on Business Basic without Intune are exposed.

Explains the new UEFI CA 2023 Secure Boot trust settings appearing in BIOS updates. Essential reading before deploying May/June 2026 cumulative updates across your fleet.

Addresses the common FQDN/IP mismatch issue during DeployR installation — edit the Windows hosts file to map internal IP to external FQDN for successful ConfigMgr deployment.

Low Latency Profile boosts app launches up to 40%, system interactions up to 70%, Shared Bluetooth Audio, multi-app camera streaming.

Low Latency Profile, Shared Audio via Bluetooth LE, NPU per-app monitoring, multi-app camera, OOBE custom folder naming.

26H1 is Snapdragon X2 only. No hotpatch. Cannot upgrade to 26H2. Enterprise recommendation: stay on 24H2/25H2.

26H2 expected H2 2026 is the true annual enterprise update. 23H2 EOL approaching. Plan refresh cycles now.

Complete guide on converting Azure VMs to W365-ready custom images using only Microsoft Graph commands. Fully automatable.

New integrated dashboards in Intune admin center for Cloud PC connection health, reliability and user-level insights.

Microsoft announces W365 as the isolated environment for enterprise AI agents. Each agent gets a dedicated Cloud PC.

Brian Reid on enrollment restriction edge cases that catch experienced tenants when adding W365 licensing.

Remote Help, EPM, Advanced Analytics and Enterprise App Management rolling into M365 E5 and EMS E3 automatically.

Lewis Barry's comprehensive guide to security, compliance and device management features in Business Premium.

8 to 14 week delivery framework for 500-5000 device organisations. Fresh deployments and migrations covered.

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Microsoft Purview introduces native admin assignment time limits (MC1411431). Learn how to set temporary role access without Entra PIM and improve compliance. The post Microsoft Purview Adds Native…

For this month's SharePoint showcase, we're zooming in on AI skills in SharePoint and real Microsoft use cases for Copilot in SharePoint. We're also introducing a new "Product Drops" standing section…

The new controls let you control how quickly Siri speaks and expressive its voice is.

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.

For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were off-limits to a large slice of the enterprises most interested in them.…

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial…

There's an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they're building the second.…