187th HTMD Newsletter 31st March to 4th April 2025
Welcome to the 187th HTMD Newsletter Summary from 31st March to 4th April 2025! This is the list of posts and videos the HTMD Community published this week, and news from the IT industry. You can get all the information and details from Windows 11, Cloud PC, SCCM, Intune, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Android, iOS, and Mac.
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- 186th HTMD Newsletter- HTMD Newsletter 186 24th To 28th March 2025
Table of Contents
Monday – 31 March 2025
🎊Faster and Advanced Windows Search Performance is Now Available with Copilot + PCs
https://www.anoopcnair.com/faster-and-advanced-windows-search-performance/
🛜Rollout in March 2025
🛜AI-Powered Search
🛜Understand Context of your Query
🛜Unified Search for Local and Cloud Files
🛜Search Without Internet Connection
👉Enhanced Device Protection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS
https://www.anoopcnair.com/enhanced-device-protection-in-microsoft-defend/
✍New Device Protection in Microsoft Defender
✍Improved User Interface
✍Unified Device Protection Feature Card
✍Real-Time Threat Resolution
✍New Recommendation Cards
👉Enable or Disable Find My Device using Intune Security Policy
https://www.anoopcnair.com/find-my-device-using-intune-security-policy/
✍Benefits of Enabling or Disabling Find My Device
✍Allowed Values of Allow Find My Device Policy
✍Windows CSP Details of Experience
✍Device and User Check-in Status
✍Client Side Verification through Event Viewer
✍End User Experience
👉Enable or Disable Mouse Gesture Policy in MS Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center
https://www.anoopcnair.com/mouse-gesture-policy-in-ms-edge-browser-m365/
✍What are Mouse Gestures in a Web Browser?
✍Simplifying Browser Actions with Mouse Gestures
✍Gesture Based Browser Control
✍Steps to Configure Mouse Gesture
✍Monitoring Status
✍Device and User Check-in Status
✍Client Side Verification
✍End User Experience
Tuesday – 1 April 2025
📌Enable Disable Notify When Apps Request Location in Windows 11
https://www.anoopcnair.com/notify-when-apps-request-location-in-windows-11/
💡Notify When Apps Request Location
💡Know What is Notify When Apps Request Location?
💡Location Service Overview
💡What are the Impact of Disabling
💡Windows Settings App
💡Registry File
📌HTMD Community Mentorship Program
https://www.anoopcnair.com/htmd-community-mentorship-program/
🎊What is the HTMD Community Mentorship Program?
🎊How Does a Mentorship Program Work?
🎊Who can Join a Mentorship Program?
🎊Is the Program Free?
🎊What Topics are Covered in the Mentorship?
🎊HTMD Mentors Details
👉How to use New End Event Button in MS Teams to Enhance Town Halls Webinars and Meetings
https://www.anoopcnair.com/new-end-event-button-in-microsoft-teams-enhance/
✍Meeting Recaps for Webinars and Town Halls
✍New End Event Button
✍End Meeting
✍Return to Green Room
✍Automatic Recording and Transcription Stop with Event Notification
✍Attendees or Organizers’ Behavior
🛠How to Fix Calendar Time Selection Issue in Outlook When Selecting Multiple Calendars and Timeslots
https://www.anoopcnair.com/calendar-time-selection-issue-in-outlook-when/
⚠Issue: Users Select Multiple Calendars and Click on a Timeslot
⚠Affects Scheduling Efficiency
⚠Main Causes
⚠Issue in Classic Outlook
⚠Workaround for the Issue
Wednesday – 2 April 2025
🎆Step by Step Process of Remove or Uninstall App using Intune
https://www.anoopcnair.com/process-of-remove-or-uninstall-app-using-intune/
🎯Remove or Uninstall App using Intune
🎯Egnyte WebEdit App in Intune
🎯Step by Step Process of Remove or Uninstall App
🎯Advantages of Uninstalling App
🎯Sync Device on Company Portal
🎯End Result
🍁Windows Update for Business Renamed to Windows Update Client Policies
https://www.anoopcnair.com/windows-update-for-business-renamed-to-windows/
🍀Windows Update Client Policies are Configurable Settings
🍀Establishing Active Hours to Minimize Disruptions
🍀A Powerful Tool for Enterprises
🍀Defining Maintenance Windows for Installations
🍀Clearer Explanation of the Core Function
🍀Reflects the Expanded Capabilities
📌Microsoft Entra ID Logs now Support Linkable Identifiers SID and UTI
https://www.anoopcnair.com/entra-id-logs-now-support-linkable-identifiers/
🎊Linkable Identifiers SID and UTI
🎊Responding to Identity-Related Threats
🎊Where to Find Linkable Identifiers?
🎊Microsoft Entra Sign-in Logs
🎊Microsoft Exchange Online Logs
🎊Microsoft Graph Activity Logs
👉How Quick Machine Recovery Feature Automatically Fixes Windows 11 Boot Issues
https://www.anoopcnair.com/quick-machine-recovery-windows-11-boot-issues/
✍QMR Feature in Windows 11 24H2 Beta Channel
✍Advantages of Quick Machine Recovery
✍Initial Release Experiences
✍Working Process of Quick Machine Recovery
Thursday – 3 April 2025
👉Phase out of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management in April 2025
https://www.anoopcnair.com/microsoft-entra-permissions-management/
✍What is Microsoft Entra Permissions Management?
✍Transition Support and Guidance
✍MEPM Discontinuation
✍Microsoft Defender for Cloud
✍Alternative Solution
🎊New Automatic Account Management Enable Account settings on Windows LAPS Policy in Intune
https://www.anoopcnair.com/automatic-account-management-enable-on-intune/
🛜Windows LAPS Policy in Intune
🛜Introduced New Settings on Windows 11 24H2 Devices
🛜Automatic Account Management Name or Prefix
🛜Steps to Access LAPS Policy
🛜New Options on Password Complexity
🛜Post Authentication Actions
🎊Enable Disable Font Providers using Intune Policy
https://www.anoopcnair.com/enable-disable-font-providers-using-intune-pol/
🎯Manages Whether Windows can Get New Fonts From the Internet
🎯Benefits of Allowing Font Providers
🎯Supports Dynamic Font
🎯Know the Reasons to Block Font Providers
🎯Steps for Configuration Methods
🎯Monitoring Status
🎯Client Side Verification
👉Custom Naming Templates for Android Enterprise Devices in Intune
https://www.anoopcnair.com/custom-naming-templates-for-android-in-intune/
✍What is Device Enrollment in Intune?
✍Template Configuration Location
✍Corporate Owned Enrollment Profile
✍How it Works
✍Supported Variables
Friday – 4 April 2025
🎯Enable or Disable Component Updates Policy in MS Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center
https://www.anoopcnair.com/component-updates-policy-in-ms-edge-browser/
🌼Component Updates Policy
🌼Ability to Automatically Refresh and Upgrade
🌼Benefit From the Latest Features
🌼Keep the Browser Efficient and Secure
🌼Patches a Single Segment of a Broader Software Application
🌼What are Component Updates
🍁Enable Disable Ask Before Closing a Window with Multiple Tabs Policy in Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center
https://www.anoopcnair.com/ask-before-closing-a-window-with-multiple-edge/
🍀Ask Before Closing a Window with Multiple Tabs
🍀How Does Ask Before Close Enabled Policy Benefit Users?
🍀Prevent Accidental Browser Closures
🍀Enhances Productivity and Minimizes Disruptions
🍀Don’t Lose Unsaved Work or Important Tabs
🍀Confirmation Pop-up Before Exiting Edge Browser
🎉How to Enable Disable Touch Keyboard Wide Mode Availability Policy using Intune
https://www.anoopcnair.com/how-to-enable-touch-keyboard-wide-mode-intune/
🎯Touch Keyboard Wide Mode
🎯Improving Typing Speed
🎯Windows CSP Details
🎯Benefits of Touch Keyboard Wide Mode
🎯Touch Keyboard Wide Mode Policy Options
🎯Monitor Status
🎯Client Side Verification
👉How to Set Business Hours to Limit Background Download Bandwidth Policy using Intune
https://www.anoopcnair.com/set-business-hours-to-limit-background-intune/
✍Bandwidth Management
✍Optimize Network Efficiency
✍Background Downloads
✍Peer-to-Peer Networking
✍How to Delete a Policy using Intune
✍Monitoring Status
✍Client Side Verification
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| LinkedIn: HTMD Community | https://www.linkedin.com/company/how-to-manage-devices/ |
| Telegram: SCCM Intune Technical Discussions | https://t.me/joinchat/Q9lE6G1_BO_bGq97 |
| Telegram: JOB SCCM Intune Group | https://t.me/joinchat/SIKr3OugR2FQ-Ej9 |
| WhatsApp: HTMD Community | https://chat.whatsapp.com/CeMXHSD61HtDBJwe78IZwV |
| Telegram: AVD/Windows 365 User Group | AVD Community – https://t.me/Inwvdcommunity |
| HTMD Community | Facebook | |
| HTMD Community (@htmd_community) • Instagram photos and videos | |
| HTMD Community (@htmdcommunity) / Twitter | |
| Facebook Group: SCCM | https://www.facebook.com/groups/ConfigMgr2012/ |
| Facebook Group: Intune | https://www.facebook.com/groups/1738789256382744 |
Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years (as of 2026) of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11+ years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.
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