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Windows Office Hours: March 21, 2024

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Thursday, Mar 21, 2024, 08:00 AM PDT
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Get answers to your questions about adopting Windows 11 and managing the Windows devices used by remote, onsite, and hybrid workers across your organization. Get tips on keeping devices up to date effectively! Learn how to cloud attach your on-premises workloads!

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.

 

Char_Cheesman
Updated Mar 21, 2024

67 Comments

  • Johan_Vanaken's avatar
    Johan_Vanaken
    Copper Contributor
    The Edge Management Service (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-management-service) is a great new way to configure EDGE settings in the enterprise. However, it lacks features like reporting (graphs on nr of users in scope, settings applied, settings conflicts...) and analysis features (like Group Policy Results for GPO's). Unfortunately a roadmap for Edge Management Service is not available (anyway, CoPilot cannot find any 😉 ). Are any features like mentioned above foreseen for Edge Management Service in the future? Can you say anything on the roadmap of Edge Management Service?
  • Johan_Vanaken's avatar
    Johan_Vanaken
    Copper Contributor
    For Windows Update for Business, Firmware and Driver management have been added to the deployment service a few months ago. The deployment options are 'Automatic' or 'Manual' deployment, in a sense of an all-or-nothing approach for the 'Automatic' part. Are there any plans to further elaborate on this functionality, i.e. it would be great to have the option to choose 'Automatic' mode for specific Driver Classes, and 'Manual' for more sensitive classes like Firmware and network ?
    • David_Guyer's avatar
      David_Guyer
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      Johan_Vanaken ,  expanding the options for what kind of drivers should be automatically approved, or excluded from automatic approval is something we are looking at.  Some of the key things we are taking a closer look at are what fields or parameters would be best for autoapproval, as well as how reliable the data driving that is.  Much of the info comes from the driver publisher and we don't have control over what they enter.  We want a more-granular auto-approval capability to be both easy to use and reliable.   Today, automatic approvals are for all driver publisher recommended drivers, meaning that these are drivers that if your device normally scanned for updates would be offered to the device, so in most cases, these are good drivers to have automatically approved.  The Other drivers do require manual approval effort.

      Hope that helps!
      -David, Product Manager - Intune

  • Matt_Crawford's avatar
    Matt_Crawford
    Copper Contributor
    Is there a plan in the pipeline to make Intune configuration policies a more like-for-like solution for GPO? I.E. will we ever have the capacity to easily update registry keys via a config policy like we could in GPO or is the ideal endstate for reg keys scripts and remediations?
    • Joe_Lurie's avatar
      Joe_Lurie
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      Matt_Crawford Dano answered this in the Windows management AMA here, at about the 22:50 mark. Make sure you watch the whole AMA. Lots of great info!

    • Matt_Crawford's avatar
      Matt_Crawford
      Copper Contributor
      To clarify, I understand ADMX exist in Intune. I'm thinking about easily being able to edit Reg Key's that don't exist in an ADMX. Similar to the registry editor in GPO. GPO Preferences.
  • Manny2021's avatar
    Manny2021
    Frequent Reader
    When will the new Outlook for Windows be made the default client?
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