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Windows Office Hours: June 19, 2025

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Get answers to your questions about adopting Windows 11 and managing Windows devices across your organization. Find out how to proactively implement and monitor Zero Trust practices. Get tips on keeping devices up to date. Learn how to move forward with cloud-native workloads, even if you have on-premises or hybrid needs.

Windows Office Hours is our continuing series of live Q&A for IT professionals here on Tech Community.

How does it work?

We will have a broad group of product experts, servicing experts, and engineers representing Windows, Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager, Windows 365, Windows Autopilot, security, public sector, FastTrack, and more. They will be standing by here -- in chat -- to provide guidance, discuss strategies and tactics, and, of course, answer any specific questions you may have.

Post your questions in the Comments early and throughout the one-hour event.

Note: This is a chat-based event. There is no video or live meeting component. Questions and answers will appear in the Comments section below.

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Updated Apr 02, 2025

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  • VanakenJ's avatar
    VanakenJ
    Brass Contributor

    As a company we are planning to evolve from Hybrid to Cloud-first. At the moment we have a PC provisioning process in ConfigMgr Task Sequence and co-management configured; so first on-prem config, second cloud config.
    What do we need to 'reverse' our PC provisioning process to put the cloud first (EntraID/Intune) and then connect to on-prem (AD/ConfigMgr) ?

      • Joe_Lurie's avatar
        Joe_Lurie
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        Ideally, you would use Autopilot for those devices that can be joined to Entra - NOT hybrid joined. Even though we allow hybrid joined via Autopilot, we recommend using Autopilot for the Entra joined devices.
        Is there a reason that you want to reverse your process, and still have a hybrid joined device as the end result?

  • VanakenJ's avatar
    VanakenJ
    Brass Contributor

    One disadvantage of Intune reporting for Feature Updates is that there are many reports in different locations (reports>Windows Update, Reports>AutoPatch, in Azure > Windows Update for Business). There is no single, consolidated dashboard on Windows updates with offering click-through behavior.

    For example it would be logical to move/integrate the (Azure-based) Windows Update for Business reports into Intune. Any plans to move to a single consolidated view for updates?

    • reastman1966's avatar
      reastman1966
      Brass Contributor

      I agree. I am just now looking at Windows Update for Business reports, so I don't have any experience with it but is there a charge to get these additional reports?

      • VanakenJ's avatar
        VanakenJ
        Brass Contributor

        Available at no charge : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/wufb-reports-overview.

  • VanakenJ's avatar
    VanakenJ
    Brass Contributor

    Using Intune for Application Management, it shows Managed Apps by device clearly and what the status is. However Intune is missing a feature that many other UEM tools have and that is essential from a support perspective: (remotely) force installation of an available application. 
    Is this feature anywhere on the roadmap?

    • Joe_Lurie's avatar
      Joe_Lurie
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      VanakenJ​ By "available application" you mean one that is assigned to a user as optional, that they can install from Company Portal? If the app needs to be installed, you would assign it as required. Or is there a reason you would assign as Available, but still need to force the installation?

      If this is for VPP apps (you don't specify an OS in your post) please like (👍) this post on aka.ms/IntuneFeedback https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/149d2f14-0529-ef11-8ee8-6045bdb3639f?q=force+installation 

      • VanakenJ's avatar
        VanakenJ
        Brass Contributor

        This is in the scenario of a Windows app deployed to a group of users as 'Available', where IT support wants to install (push) installation of the app on behalf of (a single) user. This could extend reach of IT support and offer better service to end users.

  • I asked this last month but didn't get an answer, so I'm asking again.

    How do we configure New Teams to launch automatically at sign in for users signing in to a workstation for the first time?

    I recognize there are a number of ways an admin could make this happen, but I want to know the method which is officially supported by Microsoft. In particular, it must respect the end user's selection if they later uncheck "Auto-start Teams" in the Teams settings, and it must not change this setting for any existing user.

    (In the blog post announcing the release of the TeamsBootstrapper.exe utility for deploying the New Teams client for Windows, it says "Auto start" is an "upcoming feature", but that was over a year ago and there is no reference to this feature at the Microsoft Learn article.)

  • reastman1966's avatar
    reastman1966
    Brass Contributor

    I am looking back and there used to be a reminder email when Windows Autopatch would be happening. Did that change or go away? I have attached a screenshot of the last email I received back in April. Not a big deal but it was a nice visual to share.

    • EricMoe's avatar
      EricMoe
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      We'll pass this along to the Autopatch team. The email automation came to an end, but it's good feedback that you found it useful.

    • Thomas_Egger's avatar
      Thomas_Egger
      Occasional Reader

      Hi reastman1966, yes - i do absolutely miss that information mail too. i also used this for sharing to my stakeholders regarding availability dates and deadlines per ring. i would really appreciate if MS would re-enable this email.... thx br tom

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