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The weird Swede with the crazy ideas ;) #SCCM #ConfigMgr #MEMCM #MSIntune #Windows10 #Windows11

Joined September 2014
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Simplifying application management was just the beginning. 🚀 Big things are ahead! We're joining forces with @2pintsoftware to reimagine Windows deployment and work toward a more unified device management experience. Get the scoop in today's press release ➡️ bwnews.pr/4zeL05S #MMSMOA #MMSMidway #PatchMyPC
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You now get Unlimited licenses for #Apple #VPP apps with #MSIntune learn.microsoft.com/en-us/in…
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Known issue in #MSedge 155, After upgrading to MS Edge some users cannot launch Edge. Rollback of service side change temporarily fixed the problem.. Time to move to Extended Stable? learn.microsoft.com/en-us/de… #MSintune
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🧰 Process Explorer v17.2 adds efficiency mode, live kernel dumps, and NPU monitoring. ZoomIt adds dictation for snip captions; Sigcheck adds UTF-8 output. Plus bug fixes! Get the tools at sysinternals.com. See what's new on the Sysinternals Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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PSA The one restart a month feature is currently only turned on for Consumers. We are working on bringing this to commercial soon - updating the blog to clarify now. We are just waiting until we have the appropriate commercial controls in place to manage such. :)
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September 2026 ArcGIS Security Bulletin URL: esri.com/arcgis-blog/product… Classification: Critical, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Not Defined, CVSSv3.1: 9.8
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There are 5 CVEs affecting Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) in this month's security updates, 4 of which relate to NDES. 😬
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🔒 ICYMI: @Windows 11, version 26H2 support is now available in @MSIntune, including the new Windows 11, version 26H2 security baseline and updated settings catalog support. 📖 Docs: msft.it/6016aozHM ➡️ Learn more: msft.it/6015aozHz #Windows #MSIntune #MicrosoftSecurity
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ICYMI: Your employees are already pasting sensitive data into AI tools you never approved. Here's how to inventory shadow AI apps, see what's at risk with Microsoft Purview, and enforce DLP: adamtheautomator.com/stop-sh…
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Faster compliance for Windows devices. Win32 Apps can show up faster after #WindowsAutopilot. Policies can now arrive within minutes...But compliance was still a different story! If BitLocker was suspended, the firewall was disabled, or Defender real-time protection was turned off, your device could become non-compliant. Fix the problem and the device is healthy again. But getting Intune to see that change and mark the device compliant again could take way longer than you wanted. With the Faster Compliance IME Update, the device no longer has to just wait for the next normal compliance cycle. It can notice certain changes and trigger a new compliance check itself. So what is Windows watching? What actually triggers that check? And who still decides the final compliance state? I followed the whole flow using only what the device tells us: the registry and the IME logs: patchmypc.com/blog/intune-fa… #Intune #MSIntune #Compliance #Security
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Did you see the EPM docs got updated silently... without a real announcement? There’s now a new System settings policy in Endpoint Privilege Management. Instead of only elevating an EXE, EPM can now let a standard user change a specific Windows system setting. Think more along the lines of the kind of setting you would normally change through Windows Settings or the old Control Panel. The first documented example is Network Settings, which lets users change things like IPv4, IPv6, and DNS without giving them local admin rights. The Company Portal becomes the entry point, and behind the scenes EpmElevate.exe provides the dedicated elevated experience. I took a closer look at how the policy, the Company Portal, and EpmElevate.exe all fit together. And another System Settings scenario is also hiding in there that Microsoft still hasn’t documented yet... #Intune #MSIntune #Windows11 #EPM patchmypc.com/blog/manage-sy…
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DSA-2026-448: Security Update for Dell Container Storage Modules Multiple Vulnerabilities URL: dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us… Classification: Critical, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Not Defined, CVSSv3.1: 10.0
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To the person asking earlier today how to have Windows update CSPs/Cloud policies win over Group Policy - check out the new policy we added to do just that: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…
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Windows 11 26H2 Security baselines is released! Two new settings to deploy: ✅Configure Windows Ready Print driver ranking ✅Internet Explorer\Internet Control Panel\Advanced Page\Turn off encryption support techcommunity.microsoft.com/… #Windows11
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Good news folks 👏 You don't need Active Directory for FSLogix in AVD anymore. youtube.com/watch?v=cP-2liCp… Did you know Active Direcotry was the #1 support ticket generator in AVD! Who would have guessed 🤯 Another one bites the dust @techspence 💨
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Folks, you might have been caught out by this but it's what Microsoft said they would do, according to the docs. Since Sept 1, tenants with an attestation-enforced or AAGUID-restricted passkey policy are suddenly seeing users register synced and browser passkeys. Admins are asking "why isn't Microsoft respecting my FIDO2 policy?" Here's what's going on. The "Passkeys by default" retirement page on Learn (published July 14) says this in its Important box: "Users enabled for SMS or Voice ... will be auto-enabled for passkeys in AMP. These in scope users will be put into a passkey profile allowing ALL types of passkeys. Your Registration Campaign settings will be set to Microsoft Managed state targeting passkeys." Two important notes: 1. Passkey profiles are a union. If a user is in more than one profile, a passkey only has to satisfy ONE of them. So your attestation-enforced profile is still there. Microsoft just added a second, unrestricted profile next to it for every SMS/voice user, and that one wins for registration. 2. Your registration campaign state doesn't protect you. Disabled, Enabled, doesn't matter. The doc says it gets set to Microsoft Managed regardless, which is why some of you saw your campaign config wiped with Microsoft in the audit log. Even with the campaign off, the new profile lets users self-register a non-attested passkey from My Security Info. The ONLY way to avoid this was the opt-out flag on the authentication methods policy: PATCH graph.microsoft.com/beta/pol… { "optOutSettings": { "passkeyDynamicMigration": true } } Or moving users out of SMS and voice before Sept 1. Where Microsoft dropped the ball: the Message Center post (MC1426371) only says "passkeys will be automatically enabled for users currently enabled for SMS or voice." It never mentions a new unrestricted profile or that your attestation/AAGUID restrictions would be bypassed. And MC1469555 says the campaign "does not override configured passkey policies", which is technically true and practically misleading. The passkey profile part is only on Learn. So: not a bug, but a really important detail buried in one paragraph on a docs page. What to do now: - Look at your passkey profiles for a Microsoft-created one with both passkey types and no restrictions, and check who's targeted. - Set the opt-out flag if you need attestation to hold, then clean up that profile. Note the doc says the flag stops working Feb 1, 2027. - If you already had the flag set and it still changed, that IS a bug. Open a case. Docs: learn.microsoft.com/entra/id…
Hey @merill and @NathanMcNulty are you aware that in the Passkey campaign rolling out on tenants since September MICROSOFT DO NOT RESPECT FIDO2 POLICY of the tenant?!!! Tenants with Fido2 policy enforcing attestation now have hundreds of users with synced and browser passkeys!!!
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