Modern Management Summit 2026

As endpoint environments grow more complex, controlling high impact administrative actions—such as privilege elevation, sensitive configuration changes, and security critical operations—has become just as important as managing devices themselves. In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into how Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM), Multi Admin Approval (MAA), and Admin Tasks work together in Microsoft Intune to provide strong governance, visibility, and operational control—with and without AI.
We’ll start with the non AI foundations, explaining how EPM enforces least privilege access through policy based elevation, how MAA protects sensitive actions by requiring approvals, and how Admin Tasks centralize these requests into a single, actionable workflow. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of where each capability applies, how they interoperate, and how they support auditability, compliance, and Zero Trust principles in real world Intune environments.
From there, we’ll explore how AI and agent assisted capabilities enhance—but do not replace—these controls. We’ll look at how AI can provide contextual insights, impact analysis, and recommendations for elevation requests and approval workflows, helping admins make faster, better informed decisions while keeping humans firmly in control. We’ll also discuss how agent generated recommendations surface alongside traditional tasks, and how organizations can adopt these capabilities incrementally without disrupting existing governance models.

Modern macOS management begins at first boot. This session explores the complete macOS lifecycle using Microsoft Intune, from zero-touch provisioning with Setup Assistant to establishing a strong, identity-driven security foundation.
Attendees will learn how Platform SSO during Setup Assistant enables secure, passwordless authentication from day one, and how Declarative Device Management (DDM) delivers more reliable and responsive policy enforcement. We will also cover macOS recovery partition protection, device hardening strategies, and how Intune supports a comprehensive Zero-Trust approach for macOS.

Windows update management is entering a new era, faster, smarter, and far more predictable. In this session, we explore the latest innovations in Windows Autopatch and Hotpatch that are transforming how organizations stay secure and up to date. Whether you manage thousands of endpoints or are planning your future update strategy, this session will give you a clear view of what’s available today, what’s coming next, and how these advancements fit into the broader Windows update vision.

In this session, you’ll learn how implementing Intune features like Config Refresh, Compliance Policies, or Administrator Protection can unexpectedly break every device in your environment, and how to debug it with tools (like Fiddler/IDA/Procmon), Rudy style.

In this session we will see:
- What is Log Analytics
- How to use the Log Analytics API
- Securing your API calls (Azure Automation or Azure function)
- Sending data from your devices
- Sending data from Azure Automation
- Creating reports (drivers, BSOD, warranty)

Step into the world of application packaging and unlock the secrets every modern endpoint management professional needs to know.

In this session, we’ll explore the essential steps to get started, the tools that can make your life easier, and the key differences between public, private, and vendor repositories.

You’ll leave this session with practical insights and an enhanced toolkit, ready to streamline your packaging process. We’ll also explore some of the most powerful supporting tools available today to help you manage and maintain your application lifecycle with confidence.

As you probably know I have a weekly Intune newsletter so I see a LOT of content.

In this session I will run through what I think were the most impactful contributions made in 2025. You may have missed some, you may disagree, you may have some I have missed, it's a shared learning session.

Everyone knows the struggle, packaging in Microsoft Intune... but what is the best solution for your organization? Buy a third party product and let it manage the application or build a solution yourself in Azure DevOps and everything in between?

We discuss every use case and let you know what we would choose in every case. Also show you some examples related to a custom build solution in Azure DevOps.

This session explores how Microsoft Intune Advanced Analytics and Copilot help IT teams move from reactive troubleshooting to proactive, data driven endpoint management. Attendees will learn where to find Advanced Analytics insights in Intune, how anomaly detection and device queries surface performance and reliability issues, and how Copilot accelerates investigation through natural language queries and guided next steps.
The session also introduces Explorer as a cross domain query experience, clarifies what data can be explored, and walks through real world scenarios such as detecting application crash spikes and identifying root causes across devices, models, and updates.
The presentation concludes with an overview of recent licensing updates and roadmap highlights for the upcoming months.
•Assumes familiarity with Microsoft Intune and endpoint management concepts
•Focuses on practical scenarios, advanced analytics capabilities, and AI assisted workflows
•Suitable for IT admins, endpoint architects, and product/technical decision makers looking to operationalize analytics and Copilot at scale