endpoint management

Kyndryl and CMPC said on June 11, 2026, in Santiago, Chile, that they have completed an enterprise-wide Microsoft 365 modernization project intended to standardize collaboration, strengthen security and compliance, and prepare the global pulp-and-paper company for Microsoft 365 Copilot. That...

Microsoft has resumed the automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible commercial Windows PCs in June 2026, targeting devices with Microsoft 365 desktop apps already installed while excluding tenants in the European Economic Area. The move revives a deployment plan...

Microsoft resolved a Windows Update service-side caching fault on June 4, 2026, after managed Windows devices enrolled through Intune and similar services received driver and BIOS updates that administrators had not approved between roughly June 1 and June 4. The company says the updates were...

Lloyds Banking Group is expanding its Microsoft partnership in June 2026 by adopting Microsoft 365 E7 company-wide, bringing Copilot, Agent 365, Entra, Defender, Intune and Purview together for agentic AI deployment across the UK bank. The deal matters less because another big enterprise bought...

Organizations preparing for the Secure Boot certificate rollover that begins in June 2026 should first inventory Secure Boot status, apply OEM firmware updates where needed, test Microsoft’s certificate deployment path, and treat older hardware and virtualized systems as validation risks rather...

On May 21, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story detailing how Senac-RS in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, moved more than 120,000 annual students and over 5,000 academic devices onto Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID, Intune, and Defender across more than 40 educational units. The headline is...

CISA on May 21, 2026, added CVE-2025-34291 in Langflow and CVE-2026-34926 in Trend Micro Apex One on-premise to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after finding evidence that attackers are already exploiting both flaws in real-world campaigns. That sentence is the operational fact; the...

Microsoft made Agent 365 generally available for commercial customers on May 1, 2026, positioning it as a Microsoft 365 control plane for discovering, governing, and securing AI agents across Microsoft, SaaS, endpoint, and multicloud environments. That framing sounds tidy, but the announcement...

Microsoft has expanded Windows 11’s RemoveDefaultMicrosoftStorePackages policy for Enterprise and Education devices on versions 24H2 and 25H2, letting IT administrators remove preinstalled MSIX and APPX apps by listing package family names, with broad rollout tied to the April 2026 preview...

There’s a deadline-driven operating-system push underway at MSU Denver, and this one matters because it is not just about shiny new features. The university is asking employees to move Windows machines to Windows 11 and Mac computers to macOS Tahoe 26 before Aug. 1, after which any remaining...

Microsoft’s March 26, 2026 Safe OS Dynamic Update for Windows 11 version 26H1, tracked as KB5081151, lands at a moment when a much bigger platform transition is coming into view: the June 2026 Secure Boot certificate expiration. In practical terms, this is not just another maintenance package...

Omnissa’s latest enterprise telemetry is less a verdict on one operating system than a reminder that endpoint reliability has become a board-level issue. The company says Windows devices in its managed fleet saw 3.1x more forced shutdowns than macOS in 2025, alongside 2.2x more application...

Microsoft’s latest reliability narrative is not really about a single update or one vendor’s telemetry chart. It is about a larger pattern: Windows in enterprise environments is being judged less as a desktop operating system and more as a managed service that must earn trust every day. That...

Stryker’s March 2026 network disruption has quickly become more than a vendor incident: it is now a warning shot about how endpoint management systems can be turned into high-value attack paths when administrative controls are too broad, too trusted, or too easy to abuse. On March 18, 2026, CISA...

Windows 10’s end-of-support forced a lot of organizations into a race to Windows 11, but the biggest operational risk isn’t licensing or hardware checks — it’s the application layer: the mix of legacy programs, locally stored data and undocumented tweaks that quietly run essential workflows and...

Beginning February 17, James Madison University will cut network access to any JMU-owned computer running unsupported versions of Windows or macOS — a hard campus enforcement that targets Windows 10/11 builds 22H2 and below as well as macOS Ventura and older releases. This move is a strict...

Microsoft has quietly given IT administrators a supported — but deliberately narrow — way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices, introducing a new Group Policy in the January Insider Preview that performs a one‑time uninstall only when a strict set of...

On February 3, James Madison University’s IT organization will begin a campus-wide upgrade of endpoints running Windows 11 v23H2 to v24H2, a staged move that IT says will complete in two production phases and includes a short but unavoidable connectivity window during the install. The...

Microsoft has finally given administrators a supported way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices—but the new option is deliberately narrow, one‑time, and full of practical caveats that make it useful only in specific corporate or education scenarios...

Microsoft has finally given administrators a supported way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the escape hatch is tightly controlled, limited to Insider Preview builds, and intentionally designed as a one‑time, surgical cleanup rather than a...