With Edge 154.0.4258.37, address bar search stopped working on devices that had the DefaultSearchProvider* settings deployed: type a search, press Enter, nothing happens. Florian Salzmann covered the cause and fix in Google Search Broken in Edge 154.0.4258.37 - Fix & Cause: Edge now validates OpenSearch URL templates more strictly and rejects trimmed-down Google search URLs. Besides fixing the URL template, I wanted to test moving from the DefaultSearchProvider* settings to the ManagedSearchEngines policy as a workaround. Remove the old settings, add the new one, done. In one tenant, that is exactly what happened. In the other, the old values never left the device, even though no assigned policy controlled them anymore.

With Edge 154.0.4258.37, address bar search stopped working on devices that had the DefaultSearchProvider* settings deployed: type a search, press Enter, nothing happens. Florian Salzmann covered the cause and fix in Google Search Broken in Edge 154.0.4258.37 - Fix & Cause: Edge now validates OpenSearch URL templates more strictly and rejects trimmed-down Google search URLs. Besides fixing the URL template, I wanted to test moving from the DefaultSearchProvider* settings to the ManagedSearchEngines policy as a workaround. Remove the old settings, add the new one, done. In one tenant, that is exactly what happened. In the other, the old values never left the device, even though no assigned policy controlled them anymore.

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Microsoft deprecated the osVersion filter property. That sent me through every assignment filter in my tenant, and it turned out the ones doing real work were all doing the same single thing.

Microsoft deprecated the osVersion filter property. That sent me through every assignment filter in my tenant, and it turned out the ones doing real work were all doing the same single thing.

Welcome to a new series for a new era of MSPs! I'm Bryan Irwin and in this new blog series, I'll sha...

Four days, six tracks, and a venue that still looks like the transformer factory it used to be, right down to the main room being called the Trafohall. The Workplace Ninja Summit in Baden has grown into the place where the European endpoint management community actually talks to each other, and 2026 was no exception.

Four days, six tracks, and a venue that still looks like the transformer factory it used to be, right down to the main room being called the Trafohall. The Workplace Ninja Summit in Baden has grown into the place where the European endpoint management community actually talks to each other, and 2026 was no exception.

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This post announces the General Availability of Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3.3.0, with new Windows resources, a registry adapter, server mode improvements, expression function updates, expanded what-if support, and experimental export filtering. The post Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.3.0 appeared first on PowerShell Team.

The Microsoft 365 traffic profile in Global Secure Access is included in Microsoft 365 Business Premium. No add-on, no Entra Suite, nothing extra to buy. That is easy to miss, because most of what is written about Global Secure Access is written about Private Access and Internet Access, which are not included.

The Microsoft 365 traffic profile in Global Secure Access is included in Microsoft 365 Business Premium. No add-on, no Entra Suite, nothing extra to buy. That is easy to miss, because most of what is written about Global Secure Access is written about Private Access and Internet Access, which are not included.

My name is Ron Arestia, and I am a Security Researcher with Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team ...

Remediations are the single most useful thing in Intune that most small businesses are not allowed to use. Detect a condition, fix it, repeat on a schedule - that pattern solves half of the day-to-day tickets in a managed fleet. And it is licensed out of reach of exactly the tenants that need it most.

From device recovery and unattended remote support to post-quantum cryptography readiness and Window...

Remediations are the single most useful thing in Intune that most small businesses are not allowed to use. Detect a condition, fix it, repeat on a schedule - that pattern solves half of the day-to-day tickets in a managed fleet. And it is licensed out of reach of exactly the tenants that need it most.

Part 3 of 3 in the Drive and printer mappings for Entra-joined devices series. Part 1 - reading AD group data from a cloud-only device and acting on it. Part 2 - running the job only when on-prem AD is actually reachable. Part 3 (this article) - packaging and deploying it with PSAppDeployToolkit and Intune.

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Part 3 of 3 in the Drive and printer mappings for Entra-joined devices series. Part 1 - reading AD group data from a cloud-only device and acting on it. Part 2 - running the job only when on-prem AD is actually reachable. Part 3 (this article) - packaging and deploying it with PSAppDeployToolkit and Intune.

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Part 2 of 3 in the Drive and printer mappings for Entra-joined devices series. Part 1 - reading AD group data from a cloud-only device and acting on it. Part 2 (this article) - running the job only when on-prem AD is actually reachable. Part 3 - packaging and deploying the whole thing with PSAppDeployToolkit and Intune.

Part 2 of 3 in the Drive and printer mappings for Entra-joined devices series. Part 1 - reading AD group data from a cloud-only device and acting on it. Part 2 (this article) - running the job only when on-prem AD is actually reachable. Part 3 - packaging and deploying the whole thing with PSAppDeployToolkit and Intune.

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Part 1 of 3 in the Drive and printer mappings for Entra-joined devices series. Part 1 (this article) - reading AD group data from a cloud-only device and acting on it. Part 2 - running the job only when on-prem AD is actually reachable. Part 3 - packaging and deploying the whole thing with PSAppDeployToolkit and Intune.

Windows device recovery is fundamentally stronger today than it was a year ago. Thanks to your feedb...

Part 1 of 3 in the Drive and printer mappings for Entra-joined devices series. Part 1 (this article) - reading AD group data from a cloud-only device and acting on it. Part 2 - running the job only when on-prem AD is actually reachable. Part 3 - packaging and deploying the whole thing with PSAppDeployToolkit and Intune.

Microsoft published MC1448379: the memberOf rule operator in Microsoft Entra ID is being retired on November 3, 2026. If you’ve used memberOf to build dynamic groups whose membership depends on nested group membership - user.memberOf -any (group.objectId -eq '...') - those rules stop being evaluated once the deadline hits. Membership freezes at its last known state instead of erroring out, which is the annoying part: nothing breaks loudly, access and licensing just quietly go stale.

Microsoft published MC1448379: the memberOf rule operator in Microsoft Entra ID is being retired on November 3, 2026. If you’ve used memberOf to build dynamic groups whose membership depends on nested group membership - user.memberOf -any (group.objectId -eq '...') - those rules stop being evaluated once the deadline hits. Membership freezes at its last known state instead of erroring out, which is the annoying part: nothing breaks loudly, access and licensing just quietly go stale.

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If you manage Windows devices in the European Economic Area, you have met this dialog: a user signs in, opens Word, and Windows asks whether it may share the signed-in work account with Microsoft apps - “Continue to sign in”. Microsoft added the prompt to comply with the Digital Markets Act, and on paper it gives users control over their credentials. In a managed environment it mostly gives them a new way to break single sign-on.

After I wrote about migrating Apple ADE enrollment profiles to the new enrollment policies, someone asked me on LinkedIn whether the recreation step could be scripted. The article covers that part manually: open the wizard, tick through every Setup Assistant screen, one profile at a time. That’s fine for a single token with two or three profiles. It stops being fine once you’re doing it across several enrollment program tokens with iOS and macOS profiles on each.

If you manage Windows devices in the European Economic Area, you have met this dialog: a user signs in, opens Word, and Windows asks whether it may share the signed-in work account with Microsoft apps - “Continue to sign in”. Microsoft added the prompt to comply with the Digital Markets Act, and on paper it gives users control over their credentials. In a managed environment it mostly gives them a new way to break single sign-on.

IT administrators can now automatically accept SSO permissions on managed Windows devices using a su...

After I wrote about migrating Apple ADE enrollment profiles to the new enrollment policies, someone asked me on LinkedIn whether the recreation step could be scripted. The article covers that part manually: open the wizard, tick through every Setup Assistant screen, one profile at a time. That’s fine for a single token with two or three profiles. It stops being fine once you’re doing it across several enrollment program tokens with iOS and macOS profiles on each.

I recently stumbled upon a warning message in the iOS enrollment profiles saying that new features will only be added to the new Enrollment policies, not to the classic enrollment profiles anymore. Interestingly, this change was only mentioned in passing in the What’s new section, in the announcement of enrollment-time grouping for new Apple ADE enrollment policies. There was no dedicated migration announcement, so if you missed that entry, the warning banner in the portal is probably the first time you hear about it.

I recently stumbled upon a warning message in the iOS enrollment profiles saying that new features will only be added to the new Enrollment policies, not to the classic enrollment profiles anymore. Interestingly, this change was only mentioned in passing in the What’s new section, in the announcement of enrollment-time grouping for new Apple ADE enrollment policies. There was no dedicated migration announcement, so if you missed that entry, the warning banner in the portal is probably the first time you hear about it.

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