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[Sascha Stumpler 💻 @SasStu]

Microsoft finally lets IT admins suppress the Entra SSO prompt on managed Windows devices - one registry key as of the July 2026 security update. GPO and ConfigMgr ready, Intune path hasn't surfaced yet.

https://t.co/PxxWxfZCMj

#MicrosoftIntune #EntraID #Windows11

[Johan Arwidmark @jarwidmark]

New blog post: Supporting Newer Windows Server 2025 Builds in MDT https://t.co/r6yGPEmtzc

[Matt Dancho (Business Science) @mdancho84]

Microsoft is making moves again.

A quiet little Python tool just shot to the top of GitHub’s trending charts.

100,000+ stars.

It’s called MarkItDown.

And it does something deceptively simple:

It turns almost any file into clean Markdown.

PDFs. Word docs. PowerPoints. Excel files. Images.

Drop a file in. Get structured Markdown out.

Sounds small.

It’s not.

Because one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI workflows — especially RAG systems — is getting messy, real-world documents into a format models can actually use.

And real-world documents are brutal.

PDFs are chaotic.
Word docs are full of hidden formatting junk.
PowerPoints are messy and often image-heavy.
Spreadsheets can be a nightmare to parse cleanly.

That’s where this gets interesting.

MarkItDown strips away the friction and gives you something LLM pipelines can actually work with.

In other words: less preprocessing, less pain, faster AI implementation.

Even better, this isn’t some random side project.

It’s an official Microsoft open-source tool.
Free. Commercially usable. Practical.

I tested it on a 200-page PDF.

A few seconds later, I had Markdown that was shockingly clean.

And that’s what big tech does at its best:

They take an annoying, universal problem that everyone has been duct-taping together…
and turn it into a simple standard.

That’s why this matters.

It’s not just a file conversion tool.

It’s infrastructure for the next wave of AI applications.

Get it here: https://t.co/UDzes0sbDs

🚨 Want to learn how to build + ship AI and Data Science projects (that businesses actually want in 2026)?

On July 14th, I am hosting a free workshop to help you get started with AI + DS projects in Python.

Register here (500 seats): https://t.co/onpLpRwkzH

[Ridgeline Cyber @RidgelineCyber]

Check out this week's blog: Core Security Settings to Secure Your Active Directory Environment.

Six AD defaults that hand a red team domain admin, and the exact settings that close each one.
LAPS, NTLM signing, gMSA, Protected Users, machine account quota, and the detections you may be missing.
Link is in the comment

[@[email protected] @JayTwee909]

@ChikwadoCy @SSkotheimsvik @MMelkersen Yes with E5 , the Intune Suite with EPM and CloudPKI...
https://t.co/NMbYToM2iq

[Orin Thomas @orinthomas]

Best practices for deploying Secure Boot certificate updates. https://t.co/yqph7Eq8A9

[Jeffrey Appel | Microsoft MVP @JeffreyAppel7]

NEW BLOG: Disable alert generation for Unsanctioned Apps in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Blog: https://t.co/4T8NXZuhn8

#MicrosoftSecurity

[Mikael Nystrom @mikael_nystrom]

New Blogpost:
DeployR Community Edition and FQDN Configuration https://t.co/I9pFa7VAId via @mikael_nystrom @Truesec

[SystemCenterDudes @scdudes]

It's now June when Secure Boot certificates will expire. Time is ticking, so get ahead of it with this guide from #SCDudes:👇
https://t.co/n2AALsVcSV

#MSIntune #Security #Windows #ConfigMgr #SecureBoot

[Michael Niehaus @mniehaus]

Time to move to Entra Cloud Sync https://t.co/Mw49YaEisR

[Trond Eirik Haavarstein @xenappblog]

Coming to the @MSintune Dashboard, just released.

[Vincent Le Toux (Paris, France) @mysmartlogon]

I just released EIDVirtual v2! 🚀

Get a virtual smart card reader that uses a real USB drive for free. It automatically simulates a GIDS applet to manage your certificates—a perfect alternative to TPM-based MS Virtual Smart Cards.

Check it out here 👇 https://t.co/SDcXAbocOt

[Przemysław Kłys @PrzemyslawKlys]

I've release a new version of PowerBGInfo - PowerShell alternative to BGInfo. It's complete rewrite, doesn't depend on other modules and should be easier to maintain with more features and functionality including Charts.

🔗https://t.co/URd2PrywL0

[Hoyty @hoyty]

Hi @NathanMcNulty I am begrudgingly being dragged into WDAC or Intune Application Control for Business. I need to stop students installing VPN apps and this is the only way I can see to reliably do it. My problem is I am starting at zero and struggling. Any guide suggestions?

[Stephen Devlin @TheITCloudGuy]

📢Blog Post: Most geo-blocked Conditional Access setups eventually turn into a mess of permanent travel exceptions.

❌ Stale named locations
❌ Bloated exclusion lists
❌ “Temporary” bypasses nobody audits

Well, There is a better way:
Time-bound travel exemption group with PIM.
Access auto expires. No CAP edits required.

New blog post 👇
https://t.co/moMQI79lPv

#EntraID #ConditionalAccess #ZeroTrust

[Jeffrey Appel | Microsoft MVP @JeffreyAppel7]

NEW BLOG: Simplified onboarding of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint using the Defender deployment package

Blog; https://t.co/yrnCLpghIF

[@[email protected] @JayTwee909]

@KiPos_info @juergkoller Me too on 29 October ...

[Adam G @AdamGell]

🚀CMTrace Open v1.0.0 is here — a free, open-source replacement for Microsoft's CMTrace.exe built with Tauri + Rust.

What's new:

- 411-code error database with inline highlighting. No more Googling hex codes. Covers Win32, HRESULT, ConfigMgr, and Windows Update errors
- Software Deployment workspace. Drop in a folder of MSI, PSADT, or WiX/Burn logs and get recursive scanning, exit code extraction, and error summaries with one click
- Diagnostics Collection tool (Windows). Collects 32 log patterns, 61 registry keys, 42 event log channels, and 30 command outputs. Presets: Full, Intune+Autopilot, Networking, Security, and Quick
- Registry file (.reg) viewer. Opens regedit exports in a two-pane tree UI with virtualized scrolling for 22 MB+ files
- 6 new log parsers: Windows DHCP Server, macOS Intune MDM, WiX/Burn, MSI verbose, PSADT, and .reg files. All auto-detected
- DSRegCmd MDM cross-reference. Eliminates false enrollment warnings
- 8 themes, multi-tab browsing with instant cached switching, inline Ctrl+F with regex, resizable columns
- Progressive folder loading fixes UI freeze on large log folders
- Zero-allocation severity detection + Rayon parallel parsing

Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. No telemetry. No accounts.

https://t.co/QixIauaHZ5

#Intune #SCCM #MECM #SysAdmin #OpenSource #Rust #Tauri #MVPBuzz #MSIntune

[MSEndpointMgr @MSEndpointMgr]

Blog post: Onboarding modern with Autopilot: Magic trick revealed https://t.co/JQT5v84zmQ