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What Really Happens When You Press Remote Sync in Intune
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What Really Happens When You Press Remote Sync in Intune

This blog explains why Remote Sync is not an instant action, but a push signal that Windows records through WNF before deviceenroller decides when the real OMA DM policy sync starts revealing why delays occur even when the process is working exactly as designed.

Rudy Ooms
LocalNetworkAccessAllowedForUrls The Policy You Never Deployed
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The LocalNetworkAccessAllowedForUrls policy you never deployed

LocalNetworkAccessAllowedForUrls suddenly appeared as a managed policy. This explains what triggered it and what OneDrive was protecting.

Rudy Ooms
How Intune Syncs Work PowerShell and Win32 App Delivery vs Policy Delivery
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How Intune Syncs Work: PowerShell and Win32 App Delivery vs Policy Delivery

Intune Sync: Win32Apps vs Policies. This blog explains how IME handles Win32 Apps and PowerShell, while OMA-DM delivers policies.

Rudy Ooms
PowerShell Script Installer Support for Win32Apps
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PowerShell Script Installer Support for Win32 apps in Intune

PowerShell Script Installers for Intune Win32 Apps allow you to update the installer script without reuploading the .intunewin package. The installer logic is handled separately from the app content and executed by the Intune Management Extension.

Rudy Ooms
The Microsoft Intune Suite is Dead! Long Live the Microsoft Intune Suite
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The Microsoft Intune Suite is Dead! Long Live the Microsoft Intune Suite!
Back in the heady days of March 2023, the Microsoft Intune team made a big announcement: they were going to bring a suite of advanced endpoint management capabilities called the Microsoft Intune...
Bryan Dam
Finally Control Over the Allow My Organization to Manage My Device Promp
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Finally: Control Over the “Allow My Organization to Manage My Device” Prompt

Windows now lets admins disable MDM enrollment during account setup, removing the confusing “Allow my organization to manage my device” prompt and preventing accidental enrollments.

Rudy Ooms
Company Portal Stuck on Downloading Intune Token Error IDX12729 and 0x80131040
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When the Company Portal Gets Stuck on Downloading: The Hidden IME Issue Behind It
This blog is about a strange Win32 app installation issue where the Company Portal stayed stuck on “Downloading” even though everything seemed to be perfectly fine. We’ll walk through what the...
Rudy Ooms
Intune Policy Tattooing Issue Removed Settings Stay Enforced
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Intune Policy Tattooing Issue: Removed Settings Stay Enforced

Intune Policies were unassigned and deleted, but the devices kept enforcing the old settings. SyncML only showed Add and Replace. Delete never arrived, and nothing was cleaned up.

Rudy Ooms
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The New Windows Quality Update Management Policies

Microsoft is adding Windows Quality Update Management Policies to Intune, introducing manual approvals and new update cadences.

Rudy Ooms
Windows Recovery and Remediation for Quick Machine Recovery
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Windows Recovery and Remediation

While exploring the Intune portal code, a new entry appeared — Windows Recovery and Remediation. No docs, no rollout, no explanation. It looks like the missing link between Intune and the Quick Machine Recovery feature in Windows 11, designed to manage recovery and remediation when everything else fails.

Rudy Ooms