If you’ve tested the new ADE enrollment policies in Intune and Company Portal fought you afterward, you’re not alone. I was testing the new policies and hit the same issue on every device. Setup Assistant finished, Intune managed the device as expected, and device-level apps installed and removed without a problem. Then Company Portal tried…
Have you ever bought a new machine for your organization, set everything up cloud native and cloud first, and then watched a user log in for the first time only to find their primary security software is McAfee with a one year free trial? Loaded at the OEM level, of course. And you didn’t buy…
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…
Hey everyone – I hope you had a great May the Fourth (if you’re into that sort of thing — may the force be with you). While a lot of us were celebrating Star Wars Day, Microsoft quietly dropped something that’s going to make daily life better for every Intune admin out there: the new…
Welcome back to Assigned Access April! If you’re just joining us, we’re spending the entire month of April geeking out over everything Assigned Access on Windows 11. Haven’t caught up yet? Start here with the earlier posts in the series: Today we’re tackling one of the most critical pieces of a production kiosk: the CSP…
Hi everyone and welcome to the first full week of Assigned Access April here at malinoski.me & I’m excited to kick things off with something brand new for the blog… an interview! In this exclusive interview, I sat down with Nicholas Pilzner, Senior Technical Support Engineer at Microsoft and the voice behind the excellent technical…
If you’ve followed the blog, you know I’ve spent a lot of time working with kiosk-style deployments on Windows devices. This month we’re going all-in on the technology that has become the proper way to lock down Windows 11 devices in public and shared environments. We’re calling it Assigned Access April — an entire month…
Hey everyone – you might be watching NCAA College Basketball this week, but today we’ve got the biggest showdown of the year: Microsoft 365 Showdown – your main-card matchup: Autopilot vs. Autopilot Device Prep. I’m beyond excited to announce that this is the official launch of my YouTube channel – Malinoski.me’s very first internet broadcast,…
It’s been about six months since Windows 11 version 25H2 dropped as a feature enablement package update on top of 24H2 & now is the time to adopt the newest release through Intune. Hey folks, I’ve been running 25H2 in testing since mid-2025, and honestly? It feels like the stability and control bump Windows 11…
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…
