Dear Subscriber's,

The first month of the year is already gone and we see some great stuff coming to Intune. The

Last month and this month I didn't have any sessions or summits. But I, or rather we at the MEM Group, are super busy announcing all the speakers for the MEM Summit in Paris in April.

💻 Intune Highlights

On the 1st of February two great features were launched as part of the Intune suite. One is 'Enterprise App Management' which has over 100 applications that are pre-packaged and ready to use as win32 applications as well as being updated. This makes it really easy to manage these standard applications and updates and gives us some time to do other things.

The second feature is Device Query. Intune Device Query is a feature that allows you to run Kusto queries on Intune managed devices to get real-time data about their health and configuration. This feature is part of the Intune Advanced Analytics suite, which also includes anomaly detection, device scopes, and an advanced device timeline. It's a great troubleshooting tool. If you're worried about how to build those KQL queries, ChatGPT and co. are a great help.

📋 Blog Posts

Winget Deployment with PSAppDeployToolkit

I published my first post on the TekkiGurus community site, where I decided to walk you through the process of deploying Winget applications using the awesome PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit. And of course how to deploy it with Intune.

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Create Desktop Shortcuts for Windows Apps

With the new Teams being a modern application (MSIX), I've had several questions about how to create shortcuts for an application like it or the store apps. This post will show you how to create them using PowerShell and Intune.

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🌟 Nuggets from this month

Remove the Store from the Taskbar - finally easy

Last week I noticed a new(ish) setting in the Settings catalog that finally lets you remove the Store from the taskbar with a single click.

More about it in my updated post: Remove the Microsoft Store from the Taskbar with Intune [UPDATED] | scloud

🤩 Upcoming Excitement

IntuneWin32 Deployer

For those who can't wait to try out the new version of IntuneWin32Deployer: Here's the latest beta version: Intune-Win32-Deployer/UI at main · FlorianSLZ/Intune-Win32-Deployer · GitHub

With the feedback I get, I will improve it and publish a post with a small FAQ and how-to.

Modern Endpoint Management Summit 2024

I'm super excited to be a part of the #MEMSummit 2024 organizing team.

We have already announced some great names as speakers over the last few weeks and will continue to do so.

For all the news join our group and or follow us on X / Twitter

• Modern Endpoint Management (SCCM | Intune | W365 | AVD | Security | macOS | iOS ) | Groups | LinkedIn
• MEM Summit 2024 (@MemSummit) / X (twitter.com)

🧳 Travel notes

I started the year in Bangkok, so my first trip of the year was home ;)

But by mid-January I had already made my next trip to the beautiful city of Tbilisi in Georgia, where I enjoyed a lot of local wine and food as well as the old town.

Stay tuned for more tech stuff and exciting updates in the next edition.

Cheers,

Florian 🥂