endpoint management

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Endpoint management on WindowsForum.com covers the evolving role of device and policy administration across Windows, macOS, and mobile platforms. Discussions focus on Microsoft Intune as a central control plane for security, compliance, and AI-agent governance, including the management of Microsoft 365 Copilot installations and Edge extensions. Topics also include Windows 11 recovery features like point-in-time restore, cellular and eSIM connectivity management, and passwordless resource accounts for Teams Rooms. The tag reflects a shift from traditional device management to broader oversight of AI tools, browser extensions, and identity boundaries, with emphasis on piloting, governance, and operational dashboards.
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    Jamf AI Governance GA for Mac: Endpoint Rules, Audit-Ready Controls (July 1, 2026)

    Jamf made AI Governance generally available in Jamf for Mac on July 1, 2026, adding native macOS controls that let IT and security teams discover AI tools, apply policy, and produce audit reports across managed Mac fleets. The announcement is less about one vendor adding another dashboard than...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Auto-Install Returns: IT Opt-Out and Governance Concerns

    Microsoft resumed automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in June 2026 on eligible commercial Windows devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop apps installed, with the rollout expected to continue into July outside the European Economic Area. That is the plain version of...
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    Plan an Intune Suite rollout: pilot first, govern with Message Center

    Organizations should not treat Microsoft’s incoming Intune Suite expansion as an automatic purchase event. The practical answer is: prepare a narrow pilot and an approval package now, then use Microsoft’s tenant-specific 30-day Message Center notice as the trigger for final rollout governance...
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    Microsoft Intune Named Forrester Leader: Endpoint Management Becomes an AI Control Plane

    Microsoft said on June 25, 2026, that Forrester named it a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026, crediting Microsoft Intune’s role across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, security policy, identity, compliance, and emerging AI-agent governance. The announcement is not...
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    Windows 11 Connectivity Updates: Cellular, eSIM, and Network Testing Made Visible

    On June 23, 2026, Thurrott.com published two Windows 11 Field Guide attachment posts, “test-03” and “cellular-01,” tied to its Internet Connectivity chapter and showing Microsoft’s continuing effort to make network status, testing, and cellular setup visible inside Windows 11. The posts...
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    Microsoft Entra Passwordless Resource Accounts for Teams Rooms on Windows (Aug 2026)

    Microsoft added Microsoft Entra passwordless resource account support for Teams Rooms on Windows to its Microsoft 365 roadmap, with general availability planned for August 2026 across worldwide commercial, GCC, and GCC High clouds. The change sounds narrow, but it strikes at one of the oldest...
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    Windows 11 Point-in-Time Restore (24H2+): Undo PC Breakage in Minutes

    Microsoft has made point-in-time restore generally available for Windows 11 version 24H2 and later, adding a built-in recovery feature for Home, Pro, and Enterprise PCs that can roll a device back to a locally stored earlier state from Windows Recovery Environment in minutes. The pitch is...
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    Microsoft Edge Extensions Monitoring: Inventory & Blocked Requests in Cloud Console

    Microsoft launched extensions monitoring for the Microsoft Edge management service in June 2026, giving admins a web-based view of extensions installed across managed Edge users and a workflow for reviewing user requests for blocked extensions. The feature, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID...
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    HP Poly Expansion: AI Room Compute, VideoOS 5.1, and WXP Managed Collaboration

    HP announced at InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas on June 16 that it is expanding its Poly collaboration portfolio with AI-assisted room compute devices, VideoOS 5.1, new headsets, a collaboration keyboard, and deeper management through the HP Workforce Experience Platform. The headline is not merely...
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    TWM Solicitors Migrates to Azure Virtual Desktop with 10ZiG Windows IoT Thin Clients

    TWM Solicitors has rolled out roughly 240 10ZiG Windows IoT LTSC thin clients across three Surrey offices as part of a migration from Microsoft Remote Desktop Services to Azure Virtual Desktop, pairing cloud-hosted desktops with centrally managed endpoint hardware for its 240 staff. The move is...
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    Artemis II Outlook Glitch: Remote IT Support Shows Space Needs Boring Endpoint Ops

    NASA’s Artemis II crew needed help from Mission Control on April 2, 2026, after Commander Reid Wiseman reported that his Surface Pro appeared to be running two broken instances of Microsoft Outlook during the mission’s early flight toward the Moon. The incident was not mission-threatening, and...
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    CMPC and Kyndryl Microsoft 365 Modernization: Copilot Readiness Starts With Governance

    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...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Auto-Install Returns in June 2026: Admin Controls Tested

    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...
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    Intune Driver Policies Undermined by Windows Update Caching Fault (June 2026)

    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...
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    Lloyds Adopts Microsoft 365 E7 to Govern Agentic AI in UK Banking

    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...
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    Secure Boot Certificate Rollover Playbook: June 2026 Readiness Steps

    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...
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    Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune for Education: Senac-RS Identity & Device Resilience

    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...
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    CISA Adds KEV: Langflow CVE-2025-34291 and Trend Micro Apex One CVE-2026-34926

    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...
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    Microsoft Agent 365 GA: Control Plane for Governing AI Agents Across Windows and Multicloud

    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...
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    Windows 11 RemoveDefaultMicrosoftStorePackages expands: IT can policy-remove apps

    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...
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