Summarizing Microsoft Technical Takeoff 2023

5 min readDec 7, 2023

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This post is a summary of this years Microsoft Technical Takeoff, one of the largest online events for endpoint management topics around Intune, Windows, Windows cloud experiences and security, provided by Microsoft.

These were my personal highlights and some of the most important infos and slides. (all content by Microsoft)

This is a personal summary — intended to share with the community 😎

My favorite sessions

What’s next for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop

Windows App — one app for connections to W365, AVD, Dev Box
Boot & Switch are GA
AI Cloud PC recommendation
GPU support
Lockbox support
Customer Managed Keys
Utilization insights

Navigate the future of Enterprise Application Management with Intune

Microsoft’s own app catalog built-in to Intune (not Microsoft Store, not winget)
An app will be prepopulated with content and metadata
Updates are available and can be superseded manually by an admin

Uplevel security with Endpoint Privilege Management

New with EPM: Support approved action where an end user can send requests that an admin must approve — no static EPM rules are needed and therefore it’s more dynamic and situation-specific.

What’s new in Windows identity and credential protection Event

Windows support for Passkeys to access online accounts securely
Enterprise Passwordless feature — this feature disables the password option from the Windows lockscreen to fully rely on Windows Hello for Business

Advanced analytics: supercharge real-time reporting with insights that matter

Improving the overall reporting capabilities of Intune — Reporting v2
Search & export
More and better filtering coming soon
Improved Export
Better data freshness indicators

Intune Advanced Analytics

On-Demand Pivot query for single device and over the whole platform for Anomaly detection and more
Copilot integration everywhere (explore devices or profiles in Intune)