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Microsoft Intune

Microsoft's cloud-based endpoint management service for enrolling, configuring, and securing Windows, mobile, and other devices across an organization.

Known aliases

  • Intune
  • Microsoft Intune admin center

Current stories

productOne report1 publisher

Microsoft tests typing 'turn on Bluetooth' into Windows 11 taskbar Search

Microsoft began rolling out settings commands in Windows 11 taskbar Search to Insiders on Oct. 7, 2026, with no general release date. No Intune, Group Policy or auditing controls have been announced, so the feature belongs on a test PC.

Publishers:techrepublic.com

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Microsoft makes Execution Containers for Windows 11 AI agents generally available

According to CRN, Microsoft's Execution Containers for securing AI agents on Windows 11 are now generally available, and Intune policies manage them. Windows teams now have a supported place to govern agents, though the report says little about what a container actually isolates.

Publishers:scworld.com

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+35
Incentives65
Confidence35
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Microsoft puts a Linux container runtime on Windows laptops with an Intune off switch

Microsoft made WSL Containers generally available with a wslc.exe CLI, an app-facing API, and Intune settings to disable it or allow-list registries. Through that API any native Windows app can start a Linux container, so policy has to cover software launches as well as developers at a prompt.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 53%
Operator
Operator 42%
Investor
Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives58
Confidence70
buildOne report1 publisher

One password reset let Storm-3068 run an Azure DevOps pipeline that pulled kubeconfig files

Microsoft's Defender Experts say Storm-3068 reset one user's password and ran an Azure DevOps pipeline authorized to reach more than 50 resources. It pulled the kubeconfig files that authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence62
securityOne report1 publisher

Windows 11 26H2 turns on settings backup for Entra-joined PCs whose admins never set the policy

Microsoft has switched Windows settings backup on by default for Entra-joined and hybrid-joined PCs upgraded to Windows 11 26H2, released September 29. Tenants that never set the policy now copy users' settings and Store app lists until an admin turns it off.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence64
securityOne report1 publisher

Microsoft extends Purview data blocking to the network layer for employees and their AI agents

Microsoft's Purview and Entra Global Secure Access can now block sensitive uploads to unsanctioned AI tools at the network layer, for users and agents. Licensing is not in the announcement, so tenants cannot yet tell whether it is a setting or a purchase.

Publishers:microsoft.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives85
Confidence40
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Windows takes over enforcing the agent limits developers declare

Microsoft's Execution Containers SDK, previewed at Build 2026, lets a developer state what an agent may touch and leaves Windows to apply that at runtime, with Entra and Intune setting the policy per agent.

Publishers:blogs.windows.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption22
Hype gap+25
Incentives88
Confidence60
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Revoking the stolen tokens left GhostCode's Intune device inside the tenant

eSentire says a phishing kit called GhostCode used Microsoft's device-code flow to register three devices within 77 seconds of a victim completing MFA, and one of them stayed enrolled in Intune until it was explicitly removed.

Publishers:csoonline.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption30
Hype gap+12
Incentives60
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Windows 11's Cloud Rebuild moves the recovery image off the device and onto Windows Update

Build 26220.9343 promoted Cloud Rebuild to the Beta channel on September 9, and a rebuild now reformats the system disk and fetches Windows plus drivers from Windows Update while still needing someone at the keyboard.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption15
Hype gap+30
Incentives58
Confidence38
buildOne report1 publisher

A password change on one admin account invalidates the Apple VPP token Intune depends on

Connecting a content token is what lets the Intune Company Portal install during Automated Device Enrollment without an Apple ID prompt, and the token stays valid for a year unless the account that downloaded it changes its password.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives20
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

Windows 365 flags a Cloud PC Provisioned before Intune has installed Teams

A device preparation policy in automatic mode holds provisioning open until the named apps and scripts install, with one provisioning-policy checkbox deciding whether a Cloud PC that fails preparation still reaches its user.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

GitHub moves Copilot's sandbox lock into the JetBrains plugin itself

Admins can now set filesystem, network, proxy, developer-tool and Keychain limits for Copilot sessions from inside the plugin rather than through a device-management request, and a new diagnostics tool tells them whether the policy reached the laptop.

Publishers:devops.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives58
Confidence48
securityOne report1 publisher

Microsoft bundles September's 1,000 Windows 11 fixes with a movable taskbar and new Search defaults

The September cumulative updates are mandatory, so the 1,000 accumulated fixes arrive fused to a movable taskbar, renamed Start sections, new Search suggestion settings and automatic indexing of the folders a user touches most.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption55
Hype gap+22
Incentives60
Confidence52
buildOne report1 publisher

A winget-shaped YAML workflow takes the PIM step out of routine Intune app updates

RelayPublisher publishes YAML manifests as Intune line-of-business apps straight from CI, which relocates the right to write apps in your tenant from a human's time-boxed elevation to a pipeline credential that holds it permanently.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption8
Hype gap+18
Incentives66
Confidence41
securityOne report1 publisher

Windows 11 preview update KB5120998 buys patch teams a rehearsal before September Patch Tuesday

KB5120998 carries 35 quality changes and no security fixes, which puts the real deadline in September. The parts worth testing before then are the taskbar and Start menu rework and the removal of WMIC.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption30
Hype gap−10
Incentives42
Confidence58
securityOne report1 publisher

Microsoft puts Defender Experts analysts on Palo Alto, AWS and Okta logs through Sentinel

Microsoft's managed detection service now works third-party telemetry ingested into Sentinel, on the MDR P2 tier and with no published price. Anyone paying a separate provider to read those same tables has a renewal conversation.

Publishers:microsoft.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption18
Hype gap+22
Incentives88
Confidence46