2025.23 Intune News Roundup
After taking a little break for travel, it’s back! The following is a roundup of Intune-related news, tips, and tricks for the 23rd week of 2025 to help you stay InTune with Intune! These are sites I found this week that stood out to me and certainly is not comprehensive of everything posted online that week. If you have any resources for me that you would like my to include or even do a longer post on, please reach out on the “Submit a tip” page!
Command-line tool for creating Windows Installation media
https://niklasrast.io/blog/post-0088
Having an up-to-date Windows installation USB is an important part successful device deployment. To help make that process easier and combine some extra steps that might be done by some, Niklas Rast created a Powershell tool to help with the creation of those USB sticks you surely have sitting in your desk drawer. Check it out!
(Posted by Niklas Rast on the MEM LinkedIn page)
Using Power BI and Graph to Monitor Microsoft Licenses
Looking for greater visibility into your org’s Microsoft license? This blog post from Christian Frohn might be worth checking out. It details how to connect Power BI with Microsoft Graph and create a visual dashboard for viewing insights into your licensing.
(Posted by Christian Frohn on the MEM LinkedIn page)
Understanding changes to the Microsoft Intune Connector for Active Directory
If you haven’t been aware, there was a significant update to how the Intune Connector for Active Directory worked, resulting in the deprecation of the previously published tool. In this blog post, Joery Van den Bosch details the changes and how environments might be affected by it.
(Posted by Joery Van den Bosch on the MEM LinkedIn page)
Deploying user-specific configs with the Envoy tool
Looking for ways to better customize your Windows deployment with user-specific configurations? This tool from Joey Verlinden, called Envoy, claims to help with the configurations user-specific items like drive and printer mapping, file operations, and application launching. Free to use as well!
(Posted by Joey Verlinden on the MEM LinkedIn page)
Move on over, legacy MFA and SSPR policies!
https://www.thetechtrails.com/2025/05/microsoft-entra-mfa-sspr-authentication-methods-migration.html
As you hopefully should know by now, legacy MFA and SSPR settings in Entra ID are being retired at the end of September 2025. In this blog post, Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai present a detailed guide on migrating to the new settings and creating a more secure identity environment.
(Posted by Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai on the MEM LinkedIn page)
Don’t get locked out! Break glass strategies explained
https://www.indefent.com/how-to-break-glass-fast
Having a solid (and secure) emergency access strategy is critical in the event an access configuration change really messes things up. This blog post by Albin Klinaku details different break glass strategies you could use in your tenant.
(Posted by Albin Klinaku on the MEM LinkedIn page)
Tips and tricks for creating effective proactive remediation scripts
Tips for Intune Remediation Script and Troubleshooting
Personally, I am huge fan of proactive remediations and the capabilities they offer. To learn some more tips and tricks for your scripts, check out this video from Manish Bangia!
(Posted by Manish Bangia on the MEM Linkedin page)
Reddit discussion on application logs and software deployment troubleshooting
It’s fair to admit that Intune’s (and by extension, the IME) logging could be easier to work with. This r/Intune post has a great discussion from the community on logging and what people use to diagnose unsuccessful software deployments.
A new reason why PowerShell scripts may be failing
https://patchmypc.com/blog/powershell-scripts-not-executing-maxjsonlength
If you’ve been having scripts handled by the IME not running anymore, this post by the great Rudy Ooms might be of help. In it, he discusses recent changes that might stop execution when the JSON goes over 2 mb. If you’ve stuck on solving something similar or just want to be aware, definitely check it out.
