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Windows Office Hours: March 20, 2025
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Thursday, Mar 20, 2025, 08:00 AM PDTEvent details
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 Jan 08, 2025
- Heather_Poulsen
Community Manager
That's a wrap for Office Hours. We'll be back next month and the third Thursday of every month! Visit https://aka.ms/Windows/OfficeHours for future dates and times.
- GomesCopper Contributor
There is another way to rename a Device Name, instead of using a Deployment Profile.
Like a Configuration Profile or something similar, it was to apply in a Autopilot Device Preparation - Maarten_SchultzeOccasional Reader
We're having an issue at one location where sporadically devices (regardless of which tenant they're in) change their aparant location and timezone to Singapore.
I personally suspect a nearby AP or Cell tower has it's BSSID listed as being in that location: Microsoft account | Privacy
Is there an easy way to inventory which BSSID's are nearby, including their reported location in that database?
"Opt out of location services
To provide location services, Microsoft assembles and maintains a database that records the location of mobile cell towers and Wi-Fi access points. If you would like your Wi-Fi network to be excluded from supporting location services, submit the MAC address of the hardware that broadcasts your Wi-Fi signal. It can take up to 5 days for this address to be added to the block list.The MAC address for a Wi-Fi access point (such as a wireless router) is a 12 character code that you can usually find on a sticker located on the bottom of the device. If no sticker is present, you can also find the MAC address through the utility used to manage your wireless network.Microsoft takes measures to protect our services, including the block list for Wi-Fi devices, from fraudulent requests and security attacks. If a request seems problematic, it may not be added to the block list."
- jsh20Copper Contributor
I've noticed the discovered app inventory reports in intune are sometimes out of date e.g. still showing software is installed a few months after I know for certain it was uninstalled. Is there any way we can kick start the inventory process to re-scan the device? Currently have other inventory tools so not major but would be nice for intune to also be accurate.
- acassanoCopper Contributor
I have a handful of devices that have not check in with Intune for more than a week even though they are online. What would cause this behavior
- ZortechCopper Contributor
Question about the KB5050094 update for
- [Settings] New! You can change time zones in Settings > Time & Language > Date & Time. You don’t have to be an admin to make this change.
Time zone now shows up under Date & Time for our users.
However, when trying to access it, they are first prompted for UAC, and if they click No, then they can access it. Is this expected behavior? It's confusing for our users.
- Heather_Poulsen
Community Manager
We're halfway through today's Office Hours. Keep the questions coming if you have them!
- RieckehoffCopper Contributor
Hello, is someone able to help me with a conditional policy issue?
What is happening is when we turn this policy "Multifactor authentication for per-user multifactor authentication users" from report only to on then our users try to sign onto teams and it prompts the multifactor which they can do properly but then get this screen right after
But it doesnt let them input the password and basically acts as if the user didnt user MFA, however once we put the policy into report only, it works as it should and lets user log in once the complete the MFA. How do we fix/troubleshoot this?
- GomesCopper Contributor
How can i remove Cortana completely from the autopilot devices, i can assigned the uninstall during autopilot to the device, but this only works if the apps was previous installed by the same way(intune in this case), right?
- GomesCopper Contributor
you are right, Cortana was removed in windows 11, it was an windows 10 machine, tks
- Jason_Leznek
Microsoft
Cortana?
- mjhoeygcmOccasional Reader
I want to implement AppLocker. My users are all cloud accounts and devices are Microsoft Entra Joined. Each device is registered in Intune as the user. My end goal is to block all applications except for specific ones we would like to allow. So a blanket deny on all apps except MS Office, Edge, Chrome and a few others.
What is the best approach to implementing AppLocker for existing Entra joined devices and cloud accounts using a blanket deny rule and whitelisting specific apps?