Context: Active Directory / Entra hybrid joined environment with E5 licenses, MDE and Autopilot used to onboard devices. Currently when we onboard devices they create duplicates in both Entra and MDE. But at least in Entra the duplicate devices wind up with the same device name. But when the duplicate devices show up in MDE their name begins with the generic "Desktop-*****", which I then need to constantly verify via reverse lookup using their MAC address and then follow the next step of excluding these from MDE as duplicates.

Please advise. Thanks.

We are a K-12 school with ~120 surface go 2 & 3 used as shared laptops. Recently we are having trouble with smart charging in exam situations. Picture this true use case. You have laptops with some battery wear 10-15% each because they are a year or two old. You have smart charging saying they can only charge to 80%. You have a long online exam. Now as you can imagine, the batteries almost ran out during the exam on the ones that were used. We really want a way to manage smart charging using intune so we can turn it off on all our laptops for the exam period (about two weeks). Currently, there is only one manual button in the surface app that you can change that will turn it off for a few days. No one wants to do this on 120 laptops a few times during the two week exam period. How can we turn off smart charging using powershell or intune? I have looked everywhere for a solution but have not found one a workable one (someone suggested to drain the battery to < 20% before the exam period). We would like a bit more of a reliable solution.  

Also, talking about battery, how can you put a battery percentage on the screen before the login screen (or even the login screen). We tried to remove laptops with low battery (between 50-70%) before the exam but that battery icon before the login screen made it so difficult to tell anything that we had to login just to check the battery percentage. We know there is some battery icon changes recently but I could not find any information about if it changes the login screen or the screen before the login screen.

Thanks. (P.S I am in +8 GMT so wont be able to attend online)

Hello! 
I'm a sysadmin for a Health care provider in Sweden and we have an issue with users with an E5 license loading into Office apps in view-mode. As far as I know we are a coupe of organisations providing health care that have this same issue. 

Background: We have a mix of F3 and E5 licenses and sometimes the F3 licensed users need to view documents that contains info that isn't allowed to be saved in the cloud. To minimize the popups that show up when a user starts word unlicensed we have a GPO (viewer mode) that says that it should open i view-mode. Per my understanding this GPO is device based and not user based. 

However, this also affects the users of E5 license who regularly change workstations, easily 5-10 devices in a day. Since they should be able to view and edit documents in office apps it causes frustration and confusion when they load into view-mode and have to log out and then in again (or update license) and restart the program. 

Our computers devices are Microsoft Entra hybrid joined and shared computer licensing is enabled. 

Are there any solutions or viable workarounds for this issue? It's not complicated for users to handle but frustrating and causes a lot of tickets to the support team. 

Unsure if I'll be able to participate due to the time zone difference but will appreciate any and all help. 

/Per Ekholm