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Introducing Intune Preflight: Simulate Your Endpoint’s Merged Baseline Before You Deploy

After roughly a year of writing deep-dive Intune content here on malinoski.me — posts on Assigned Access kiosks, Intune-based McAfee removal, policy conflicts, Autopatch deployments, and the eternal “why isn’t this device getting what I assigned?” question — I kept running into the same fundamental friction. Intune’s admin center is fantastic for creating policy, but…

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Assigned Access April: From Validation to Velocity – Your Three-Phase Process for Reliable Zero-Touch Windows 11 Kiosks

If you’ve been following along this month, you already know the story: we’ve spent the entire month of April diving deep into Assigned Access—the Windows 11 technology that powers reliable, locked-down kiosks for public-facing, frontline, and general-use devices. From the very first kickoff post (where we looked at why the old Intune Kiosk Templates don’t…

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Mastering Autopilot Device Preparation: A Practical Baseline for Autopilot V2 (Yeah, the One You Probably Skipped)

Hey folks, yep—that’s right. Autopilot Device Preparation. Or as the community lovingly calls it, Autopilot V2. The thing you definitely have fully configured in your tenant… right? 😅 If you’re like most Intune admins I talk to (including myself a couple years back), you’ve been rocking classic Autopilot V1 for ages because, let’s be honest,…

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Mastering Intune Autopilot: Your Essential Guide to Windows 11 Provisioning Best Practices Heading into 2026

If you’ve been following along, you know I’m all about diving into the Microsoft ecosystem in ways that make our IT lives easier, more efficient, and honestly, a bit more fun. After that AI-packed Microsoft Ignite last week, I’ve been geeking out over all the new features rolling out—especially those paving the way for agentic…