Users Receive Unprovoked Windows 11 Offers After Intune Code Glitch

The unintentional upgrade notices to Windows 11 travel contempt Microsoft’s caller announcement of automation and AI features for Intune.

Enterprise users are receiving unprovoked offers to upgrade to Windows 11 owed to an rumor successful Microsoft’s instrumentality guidance tools.

The rumor is pinch Microsoft’s Intune software, which typically allows strategy administrators to negociate mobile devices. Intune governs nan usage of Windows, macOS, and Android devices attached to endeavor environments.

The news was first reported by Bleeping Computer, which besides noted that a code-fix was being deployed to systems. The problem was a “latent codification issue,” which was past being fixed.

It is unclear really Windows systems were offered upgrades to Windows 11. Intune typically determines nan usage policies for devices and provisions hardware and package updates.

Microsoft didn’t respond to questions from Computerworld astir nan rumor aliases erstwhile it would beryllium resolved.

An advisory posted connected Microsoft’s website besides said strategy administrators must manually rotation backmost updates to Windows 11 caused by nan bug. Enterprises should besides region Windows Updates.

Device guidance tin beryllium a problem if strategy administrators don’t person due controls, aliases if rollouts are not compatible pinch nan instrumentality guidance devices successful place, said Jack Gold, main expert astatine J. Gold Associates.

One illustration is rolling retired a driver update that whitethorn not activity aliases has zero capacity to rotation it back, for illustration what happened pinch Crowdstrike, Gold said.

The rollback from Windows 11 owed to nan Intune glitch should beryllium tested connected a constricted ground and rolled retired to nan full fleet of affected systems aft ensuring nary glitches show up, Gold said.

The unintentional upgrade notices to Windows 11 travel contempt Microsoft’s caller announcement of automation and AI features for Intune, designed to automate instrumentality guidance and spot updates.

Last month, nan institution announced Security Copilot, which is designed to forestall information attacks. A Copilot characteristic for Intune called “Vulnerability Remediation Agent” makes it easier to prioritize spot guidance and nan remediation of information issues connected devices.

Microsoft past period besides announced nan preview of Windows 365 Frontline, which sets up a impermanent “shared mode” for nan cloud-based OS. An Intune automated characteristic prepares nan virtual PC policies that see app entree and different provisions.

Gold said information and spot management, which is already unforgiving for sysadmins, will get moreover tougher pinch AI deployments connected devices.

Beyond managing devices, strategy administrators will request to return complaint connected managing nan bits of information accessible to endeavor users for AI.

“For nan astir part, rolling retired AI should beryllium nary much difficult than different apps, but we’ve seen successful nan past that apps don’t ever play bully together connected nan aforesaid system,” Gold said.