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Maintenance Window Settings for OS, Drivers, and Updates
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Maintenance Window Settings for OS, Drivers, and Updates

Maintenance Window Settings for OS, Drivers and Updates is finally appearing in Intune. Here is what they do, why they matter, and how Windows uses them to control update timing.

Rudy Ooms
Adobe Acrobat Patching A Practical Guide
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Adobe Acrobat Patching: A Practical Guide
A Brief History of Adobe Adobe was founded in 1982 with PostScript, laying the foundation for digital document rendering and enterprise printing. Early adoption through the Apple LaserWriter...
Vincent Verstraeten
Intune Timing Demystified What Actually Happens Behind the Scenes
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Intune Timing Demystified: What Actually Happens Behind the Scenes

Policies, scripts, and Win32 apps do not follow the same path in Windows. Understanding those paths explains Intune timing.

Rudy Ooms
Intel TDT Deprecated Defender CSP Error 0x86000002
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Intel TDT Deprecated: Defender CSP Error 0x86000002

The Defender CSP setting IntelTDTEnabled suddenly started failing with error 0x86000002. A closer look shows the setting is now marked as deprecated and defaults to False, suggesting the policy control for Intel TDT may have quietly disappeared.

Rudy Ooms
Intune device actions Microsoft brings back instant push execution
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Intune Device Actions: Microsoft brings back instant Remote Actions
This deep dive builds on earlier research in which we observed that Intune remote actions feel instant on day one but begin to show a delay the next day. That research focused on the behavior from...
Rudy Ooms
Intune Win32 PowerShell Script Installer 64 Bit Switch Not Working
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Intune Win32App PowerShell Script Installer 64 Bit Switch Not Working

Selecting 64 bit for a Win32 PowerShell installer script still launches 32 bit PowerShell inside IME. This blog
explains why the switch does not enforce the expected architecture

Rudy Ooms
Disable MDM Enrollment When Adding a Work or School Account on Windows
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Disable MDM Enrollment When Adding a Work or School Account on Windows

What really happens when you disable MDM enrollment in Intune? This article shows the full Windows broker and Entra ID flow behind the management prompt.

Rudy Ooms
Intune PowerShell Script Delay Here Is What Really Causes It
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Intune PowerShell Script Delay? Here Is What Really Causes It

Why does an Intune PowerShell script not run immediately? This post explains the real IME triggers, the 8 hour timer, and why Sync does not start the PowerShell workload.

Rudy Ooms
ADMX Ingestion and Access is Denied 0x80070005
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ADMX Ingestion and Access is Denied 0x80070005

A 0x80070005 error in Intune can occur before any registry write happens. Here is how PolicyManager rejects the ADMX policy during ingestion.

Rudy Ooms
How the Intune Device Certificate renewal was stopped by a wrong
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Intune MDM Certificate Renewal Failure: The Hidden UPN Issue
In this blog, we take a closer look at what really happens when the Intune MDM device certificate fails to renew. While investigating a strange certificate renewal issue, we uncovered an...
Rudy Ooms