What's New in Microsoft Intune – January 2026

January provides IT admins with a clear view of their endpoint management landscape, highlighting areas for improvement. This period is also used by Intune to focus on future challenges and enhancing IT admin productivity. Microsoft Intune has introduced new capabilities to accelerate app deployments using PowerShell script installers for Win32 apps. This allows for more customization and faster deployment cycles by natively running scripts as the installer. Endpoint Privilege Management now offers sharper elevation capabilities, preserving user profiles during privilege escalation. This ensures cleaner audit trails and more accurate compliance records. Scope tags integration enhances security by restricting access to elevation requests based on admin permissions. The Admin Tasks feature, now generally available, consolidates various admin workflows into a single, prioritized queue. This includes managing privilege elevation requests, security tasks, device offboarding, and multi-admin approval tasks. Apple device enrollment has been strengthened with support for the ACME protocol, offering improved security over the previous SCEP method. This change operates in the background without altering the enrollment or admin center experience. Intune is committed to continuous improvement, with engineering teams actively developing solutions for future IT admin challenges.