 {"id":29490,"date":"2021-03-20T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moderneuc.com\/?p=29490"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:02:20","slug":"microsoft-modern-management-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/microsoft-modern-management-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Modern Management Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft Ignite happened as a virtual conference in early March this year.   A few things were said (or not said) that resonated with me that I wanted to mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First and foremost &#8211; it was interesting to note that in the Microsoft published Event Book of News  there was only a few  a few times the term Windows ( in fact, only 6 of them) was mentioned.       This is pretty big as a lot of past conferences Windows took center stage.    For many this marks a point in which the device OS takes a back stage to the apps or platform that it represents.         For Microsoft, this year was all about Microsoft 365 platform as a whole<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second point is the focus placed on Microsoft Teams as the front end for all Microsoft 365 Enterprise apps related topics.    I do not recall if I read or listed to this somewhere, but Microsoft Teams has become the &#8220;hotel lobby&#8221; for the vast and complex pieces of the puzzle.   It is the user interface for the rest of Microsoft 365.   I think this is pretty cool analogy.    (There are plenty of service corridors you can use if you are into it :-), but for most users the lobby, the front desk, the bar \/ restaurant, the elevator and their rooms will be all they want to use.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An interesting note was that Microsoft chose to schedule a separate session for Microsoft Endpoint Management called: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/EMDay2021\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/EMDay2021\">Microsoft&#8217;s Endpoint Management Acceleration Day: March 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sessions were excellent and cointained lots of useful examples.   It was repeated 3 times to allow audience in all time-zones.  Decks and recording were <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/microsoft-intune\/decks-for-endpoint-management-acceleration-day\/m-p\/2198116\/highlight\/true?WT.mc_id=WDIT-MVP-5002293#M6179\">posted by Microsoft here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Eug_0NSVkAEyqen?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Side note:  Another conference worth mentioning in this article is the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nordicvirtualsummit.com\/\" type=\"URL\" id=\"https:\/\/nordicvirtualsummit.com\/agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nordic Virtual Summit 2021<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong> &#8212; WOW! Two days, filled with content in three different tracks:  Endpoint Management , Security &amp; Compliance and Azure &amp; Automation.   Unfortunately it was not officially recorded, but I am sure you can find the sessions  &#8220;out there&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft Ignite 2021 sessions on Windows and  Modern Management include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/myignite.microsoft.com\/sessions\/b3da6f4e-1f60-45fb-b58a-35a9dfe8f06\" target=\"_blank\">The heartbeat of modern work: A Windows fireside chat with Panos Panay &amp; Roanne Sones<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/windows-it-pro-blog\/announcing-the-windows-update-for-business-deployment-service\/ba-p\/2178419\" target=\"_blank\">The Windows Update for Business deployment service<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/windows-it-pro-blog\/introducing-a-new-deployment-service-for-driver-and-firmware\/ba-p\/2176942\" target=\"_blank\">A new deployment service for driver and firmware updates<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/windows-it-pro-blog\/optimize-cloud-managed-downloads-with-delivery-optimization-and\/ba-p\/2177000\" target=\"_blank\">Optimized cloud-managed downloads with Delivery Optimization and Configuration Manager<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/windows-it-pro-blog\/expedite-security-updates-in-microsoft-endpoint-manager-admin\/ba-p\/2177116\" target=\"_blank\">Expediting updates with Microsoft Intune in the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/windows-it-pro-blog\/known-issue-rollback-helping-you-keep-windows-devices-protected\/ba-p\/2176831\" target=\"_blank\">Known Issue Rollback: helping you keep Windows devices protected and productive<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/windows-it-pro-blog\/using-microsoft-intune-and-update-compliance-for-monitoring-and\/ba-p\/2177106\" target=\"_blank\">Using Microsoft Intune and Update Compliance for update monitoring and reporting<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/windows-it-pro-blog\/windows-release-health-coming-to-the-microsoft-365-admin-center\/ba-p\/2178337\" target=\"_blank\">Windows release health coming to the Microsoft 365 admin center<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/windows-it-pro-blog\/universal-print-is-ready-for-business\/ba-p\/2176778\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Print reaches general availability<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/powerplatform\/2021\/03\/02\/announcing-new-power-platform-capabilities-at-microsoft-ignite\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Power Automate Desktop is now available for all Windows 10 users at no cost<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Ignite happened as a virtual conference in early March this year. A few things were said (or not said) that resonated with me that I wanted to mention. First and foremost &#8211; it was interesting to note that in the Microsoft published Event Book of News there was only a few a few times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[681,441],"tags":[717,742],"class_list":["post-29490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moderneuc2","category-tech-talk","tag-ignite","tag-moderneuc1"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":681,"label":"ModernEUC"},{"value":441,"label":"Tech Talk"}],"post_tag":[{"value":717,"label":"Ignite"},{"value":742,"label":"ModernEUC"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MicrosoftIgnite2021-featuredImage-730x430-1.jpg",730,430,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":681,"name":"ModernEUC","slug":"moderneuc2","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":691,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":261,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":681,"category_count":261,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ModernEUC","category_nicename":"moderneuc2","category_parent":0},{"term_id":441,"name":"Tech Talk","slug":"tech-talk","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":451,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":678,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":441,"category_count":678,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Tech Talk","category_nicename":"tech-talk","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":717,"name":"Ignite","slug":"ignite","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":727,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":742,"name":"ModernEUC","slug":"moderneuc1","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":752,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":284,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518818,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490\/revisions\/518818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}