Have you tried restarting? #12
Autopilot, Intune, Entra: this month’s news. Plus two conferences to mark on your calendar and that May feeling that already tastes like summer.
In the last issue, I mentioned that this year’s spring event season is intense, and that’s precisely one of the reasons why I skipped a couple of rounds of video tutorials.
Sorry about that.
To make it up to you, however, I’m working on a SUPER tutorial on Intune Multi Admin Approval, which will be released in the coming weeks.
What events are left between now and summer? You’ll find out in the dedicated section. 😜
Let’s get back to our usual newsletter schedule. Happy reading!
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📌 In this issue
FAQ… but with style: “During deployment with Windows Autopilot, can I distribute Win32 apps and line-of-business (LOB) apps together?”
Microsoft News Radar: the latest news directly from Microsoft sources.
Community Picks: the most interesting content created by the community this month.
Events: BeConnected Day, AperiTeams!
On a personal note: already feeling the summer vibes, even if it’s too early.
❓ FAQ… but with style
Question
“During deployment with Windows Autopilot, can I distribute Win32 apps and line-of-business (LOB) apps together?”
Answer
It depends on how you are provisioning the device.
With the “classic” Autopilot deployment, Microsoft discourages mixing Win32 and LOB apps in the same enrollment phase. Both types of apps use the Trusted Installer service, and if they run in parallel, they can interfere with each other and cause some installations to fail, especially in the case of installers composed of multiple files. In this scenario, it’s better to stick to Win32 apps only.
With the new Windows Autopilot Device Preparation, however, this limitation does not exist: you could potentially combine Win32 and LOB apps without significant risk of conflicts.
My operational advice: to avoid any headaches, standardize the app distribution as much as possible, trying to use only Win32 apps, especially now that it is possible to use a PowerShell script (separate from the .intunewin package) to handle the installation.
📎 Win32 app management in Microsoft Intune
📎 Add, Assign, and Monitor a Win32 App in Microsoft Intune
🛰️ Microsoft Radar
A selection of content directly from Microsoft sources.
Microsoft Intune
Surface IT Pro
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Microsoft Entra
🌐 Community Picks
The most useful contents from the community that I have come across in these weeks.
🔗 How to Manage RC4 Hardening – Definitive Guide
👤 Giulia Spinetti
RC4 is obsolete, Kerberos is coming, and your AD environment could break without warning. Three phases, registry keys, events to monitor, and ready-to-use scripts: everything you need to migrate to AES without surprises.🔗 ABM, ABE, and Business Connect Are Gone — Welcome to Apple Business
👤 Somesh Pathak
Three Apple portals become one. If you manage Apple devices in your company, this is the time to understand what changes in your workflow and what to update before something stops working..🔗 To sysprep or not to sysprep, why are we still having this conversation?
👤 Michael Niehaus
Sysprep: a debate that seemed dead and buried, but in 2026 it’s making noise again. Duplicate SIDs, long ignored by many, are now officially a security problem, with a concrete deadline: the end of 2027..
🎭 Events and Call for Speaker
Community and Microsoft events, along with the main open Calls for Speakers.
💻 BeConnected Day
📅 11 June 2026 - 🌍 In person
The largest community conference in Italy on Microsoft 365, Copilot, Security and Power Platform, Modern Work and Security is waiting for you, free of charge. MVP speakers and Microsoft architects, hands-on sessions, networking with top industry professionals: a day worth as much as a paid course.AperiTeams Conference 2026
📅 24 June 2026 - 💻 Online and 🌍 In person
Free one-day conference at the Microsoft House in Milan dedicated to IT professionals on infrastructure, hybrid cloud, modern workplace, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, featuring technical sessions, demos, and networking, organized by Inside Technologies.
Disclaimer
The events I mention in “Have You Tried Restarting?” do not represent a complete list: I share those I personally come across and consider useful to the community. If an event is missing, it simply escaped my attention or I was not aware of it: if you would like to report your event to me, write to me. The publication is for informational purposes only and does not imply endorsement, approval, sponsorship, or partnership, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
🎧 On a personal note
Outside the IT world, here’s what has been inspiring me lately.
📖 What I’m reading (books, newsletters)
🎵 What I'm Listening To (Musical Obsessions of the Month)
✍️ Scattered Thoughts
As every year, the month of May arrives and my mind starts torturing me with that summery feeling of “letting go,” as if we were close to the holidays. Too bad there are still 3 months to go. Every year the same story, I’ll never get used to it, I just have to hang in there.
Talk to you soon!
Riccardo
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