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Notes from real tenants

Every post, filtered by topic: Intune and Copilot error fixes, Azure cost explainers, .NET guides and homelab notes. Written after the thing was actually fixed, in a tenant with real users in it.

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Intune policy conflict: which policy actually wins, and how to find the other one. Intune & Endpoint article banner on grbadhon.com
Intune & Endpoint 086

Intune policy conflict: which policy actually wins, and how to find the other one

Compliance beats configuration, two compliance policies resolve to the most restrictive value, and two configuration profiles resolve to nothing at all. The report calls all of it Conflict.

Endpoint Intune
22 Aug 2026 · 9 min
Intune wipe vs retire: which action to use, and the order that stops data being orphaned. Intune & Endpoint article banner on grbadhon.com
Intune & Endpoint 085

Intune wipe vs retire: which action to use, and the order that stops data being orphaned

Retire, wipe, delete, Fresh Start and Autopilot Reset do five different things to a device and to three separate records. Delete is the one that catches people.

Endpoint Intune
21 Aug 2026 · 10 min
Conditional Access policy design: the failure modes the documentation leaves out. Entra ID & Identity article banner on grbadhon.com
Entra ID & Identity 084

Conditional Access policy design: the failure modes the documentation leaves out

conditional-access Entra ID security
20 Aug 2026 · 20 min
Create sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview: the publishing step everyone misses. Purview & Compliance article banner on grbadhon.com
Purview & Compliance 083

Create sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview: the publishing step everyone misses

data-classification information-protection sensitivity-labels
19 Aug 2026 · 6 min
Forcing an Intune sync, and the three problems that look exactly like a sync failure. Intune & Endpoint article banner on grbadhon.com
Intune & Endpoint 082

Forcing an Intune sync, and the three problems that look exactly like a sync failure

The admin centre Sync action got fuller in 2607, and the properties catalog can now read the registry. Neither fixes a policy that was never going to apply.

Endpoint Intune
19 Aug 2026 · 4 min
Custom compliance settings for macOS in Intune: the script, the rules, and the type mismatch that wastes your afternoon. Intune & Endpoint article banner on grbadhon.com
Intune & Endpoint 081

Custom compliance settings for macOS in Intune: the script, the rules, and the type mismatch that wastes your afternoon

New in service release 2607. A shell script that emits JSON, a rules file that judges it, and strict data types that fail quietly when you get them wrong.

Endpoint Intune
18 Aug 2026 · 4 min
Governing browsing with Copilot in Microsoft Edge from Intune. Copilot & AI article banner on grbadhon.com
Copilot & AI 080

Governing browsing with Copilot in Microsoft Edge from Intune

Edge 149 brought the Copilot governance policies into the settings catalog. Two of them decide whether page content is read. The rest just change what a tab looks like.

Copilot Intune
17 Aug 2026 · 4 min
Controlled Configuration for Defender: deciding which channel actually owns your antivirus settings. Security & Defender article banner on grbadhon.com
Security & Defender 079

Controlled Configuration for Defender: deciding which channel actually owns your antivirus settings

New in preview: Intune-delivered Defender settings can now override Group Policy, Configuration Manager and local scripts. Useful, and not something to switch on tenant-wide.

Endpoint Intune
16 Aug 2026 · 4 min
Entra ID P1 vs P2: the licence maths, not the feature list. Entra ID & Identity article banner on grbadhon.com
Entra ID & Identity 078

Entra ID P1 vs P2: the licence maths, not the feature list

Cost Entra ID licensing
15 Aug 2026 · 8 min
Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5: the three cliff edges that actually justify the uplift. Microsoft 365 Licensing article banner on grbadhon.com
Microsoft 365 Licensing 077

Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5: the three cliff edges that actually justify the uplift

Most of the comparison is noise. Three capabilities genuinely stop at E3, and the largest saving is usually in the opposite direction entirely.

Cost Microsoft
14 Aug 2026 · 4 min
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