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The series that brings you real discussions and proven tips and tricks is back—and live at Microsoft Technical Takeoff! Let's face it. Some configurations, policies, and approaches work better than others. That's why Danny and Rachelle, and their fellow colleagues in the Microsoft Intune, Security, and Customer Experience engineering and product teams are reigniting the series with conversations the things that make a successful endpoint management strategy. Tune in for tips to help you optimize and simplify the way you do things today, and in the future.
This session is part of the Microsoft Technical Takeoff: Windows + Intune. Add it to your calendar, click Attend for event reminders, and post your questions and comments below! This session will also be recorded and available on demand shortly after conclusion of the live event.
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- Pearl-Angeles
Community Manager
Thanks everyone, for your participation in this UEM session! Below are the questions the panelists discussed live, along with associated timestamps:
Question – From a product and engineering perspective, what are the best practices for designing Intune configuration profiles upfront—around scoping, modularity, and ownership—to minimize long‑term technical debt when new or unexpected scenarios emerge after hundreds of profiles are already in production? – answered at 6:17.
Question – Currently there is a nice preview feature to run remediation scripts manually on individual devices. Is there a way to run a remediation script manually to a number of devices, like a bulk action. – answered at 10:18.
Question – What are you most excited about that’s coming soon or has landed recently? – answered at 11:22.
Aria mentioned new Autopatch reports. Where is Autopatch alert and management status data sourced from, and how often is it refreshed? – answered at 13:48.
Question – What are best practices for avoiding policy conflicts and sync delays? – answered at 15:51.
Question – Where can we find the Autopatch report endpoints in Graph? – answered at 18:02.- For more info, go to this MS Learn article: adminWindowsUpdate resource type.
Question – What is the best way to manage Win32, Store, and LOB apps together? – answered at 18:37.- Read Pavan blog recently published: Our commitment to Windows quality | Windows Insider Blog.
- Aaron_ManBrass Contributor
I sometimes have a feature update fail to install because of problems with the component store. Often "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth" can't fix the issue. Please provide a command line or PowerShell way to start a "Fix Problems using Windows Update" repair which will rebuild the component store.
- Paul_WoodwardIron Contributor
Secure Boot reporting is useful. It was a bit late to the party, June is coming up fast, but it's appreciated. How can it be we can't filter or sort on the Certificate Status column, which is what tells us the devices we need to action. That seems like a big miss?
- Jason_Sandys
Microsoft
The best way to filter and work with the data in the report is to export it and use your favorite CSV manipulation tools, e.g., PowerShell, Copilot, or Excel.
- Paul_WoodwardIron Contributor
Couple of things I'd like to see:
(1) Requirements for an Application has an option for OS version. Still waiting for 25H2 to appear as an option. It's been months. How can this be? You know when 25H2 is launching ahead of time.
(2) Conflict resolution. It's very hard to manage policy without creating conflicts, and it's hard to find them, resolve them. It'd be nice to have the portal help us avoid and fix conflicts. - jeddy_Iron Contributor
Will there be a commitment to ensure that when Group Policies are changed by Microsoft (either newly released or updates to existing ones are made) that there will be a matching Intune CSP (or at the least, OMA-URI) published for it? I keep finding fairly new Microsoft policies with GPOs but no CSPs (see
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/242922 for an example with VS Code).
- Per-Larsen
Microsoft
In general yes, we are working closely with the Windows team. CSP is a native MDM policy, other policies are using the ADMX ingestion.
We have also adapted to a new process, so Edge, Google Chrome, Microsoft 365 Apps policies goes faster into Intune, so you do not have to relay on customer Intune policies - as those can cause different issues, and reporting are not the best.
VS code is a different issue, that policy are writing to a protected part of the Windows OS Win32 and Desktop Bridge app ADMX policy Ingestion | Microsoft Learn - we did unblock Visual Studio policies, we are looking at a similar process for VS Code.
- Heather_Poulsen
Community Manager
Thanks for joining today’s session on “Unpacking Endpoint Management: Live from Tech Takeoff 2026” at Microsoft Technical Takeoff. Q&A will remain open through Friday so keep your comments and questions coming! Up next: Azure Virtual Desktop for hybrid environments.
- RobkohliCopper Contributor
Don't forget Winget to manage apps.
- jxsh42Brass Contributor
In my environment we have hundreds of computers filled with seasonal employees, so we implemented DEM account; however, the DEM account device limit goes off of Entra device limit setting.
DEM was used to fix the compliance issue of non active users making the device non compliant (can only change primary user not enrolled user)Now we have to set Entra to 200 device limit, which is not ideal for security
- Jason_Sandys
Microsoft
jxsh42, can you please expand a bit on what you mean by "implemented DEM"? As SkipToTheEndpoint properly calls out, using DEM for Autopilot is not supported but it's unclear if that's what you mean here.
Also, what does "DEM was used to fix the compliance issue" mean?
- SkipToTheEndpointBrass Contributor
DEM accounts aren't supported in Autopilot. It sounds like you should be using Self Deploy and configuring these as userless "shared" devices which makes that problem go away.
- David_RoyCopper Contributor
I want to see that
- JamieLiu5005Brass Contributor
What's a best practice on Intune managed devices records and Entra ID device records alignment? We found that the devices are removed from Intune but the device records are still in Entra ID and identified as stale devices.
- Per-Larsen
Microsoft
Just like with AD and SCCM it is a different process.
FOr Entra devices they have created a guide on how to manage stale devices.
How to manage stale devices in Microsoft Entra ID - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn