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Compliance & Baselines

Practical writing on Microsoft 365 and Intune tenant management, security baselines, and running an MSP without drowning in admin centers.

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Legacy Entra ID risk policies retire october 1: What MSPs Need to Migrate Now
Compliance & Baselines

Legacy Entra ID risk policies retire october 1: What MSPs Need to Migrate Now

Microsoft is retiring the legacy user risk and sign-in risk policies in Entra ID Protection on October 1, 2026. Here is what MSPs...

M Michael · Sep 4 · 2 min
The Defender Threat Intelligence Portal Is Gone. Check Your Runbooks and Your Invoices.
Compliance & Baselines

The Defender Threat Intelligence Portal Is Gone. Check Your Runbooks and Your Invoices.

The standalone Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence portal retired on August 1, 2026, and Premium TI capabilities are now bundle...

M Michael · Aug 26 · 2 min
Intune Custom Compliance Scripts May Rerun Hourly, Not Every Eight Hours
Compliance & Baselines

Intune Custom Compliance Scripts May Rerun Hourly, Not Every Eight Hours

A newer Intune Management Extension build shows evidence of re-evaluating custom compliance discovery scripts roughly every hour i...

M Michael · Aug 25 · 2 min
Registry inventory in Microsoft Intune: verify what’s on your devices
Compliance & Baselines

Registry inventory in Microsoft Intune: verify what’s on your devices

Intune now collects Windows registry data through the properties catalog so you can verify real device configuration without custo...

M Michael · Jul 30 · 2 min