https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/ Evidence-based thinking on Windows 11, Intune, Group Policy and the Modern Workplace from Make IT Happen. en-GB Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-10-october-2026-cliff/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-10-october-2026-cliff/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Windows 10 ESU Year 1 ends on 13 October 2026, and Year 2 costs double. Why ESU is a year of breathing room, not a strategy, and what an evidence-based exit looks like. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/evergreen-windows-servicing/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/evergreen-windows-servicing/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Windows 11 24H2 leaves support for Home and Pro on 13 October 2026, and 25H2 and 26H2 arrive as enablement packages. The version migration project is over; what replaces it is an operating rhythm. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/intune-vs-group-policy-2026/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/intune-vs-group-policy-2026/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Group Policy Analytics gets you part of the way to Intune. The real work in 2026 is understanding what each setting was for: map it, re-engineer it or retire it. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/copilot-plus-refresh-window/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/copilot-plus-refresh-window/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Copilot+ premiums, rising memory prices and the Windows 10 exit wave: how to plan an enterprise hardware refresh on evidence rather than vendor hype. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/evidence-based-discovery/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/evidence-based-discovery/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Workshops capture what people remember. Real discovery reads the estate itself: every GPO, every application, every setting, read-only and with zero egress. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/application-packaging-backlog/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/application-packaging-backlog/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Application packaging is the most common critical-path blocker in endpoint migrations. Why backlogs form, what a good pipeline looks like, and why rationalisation comes first. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/radius-without-domain-joined-devices/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/radius-without-domain-joined-devices/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 NPS and PEAP-MSCHAPv2 depend on domain computer accounts. Entra-joined devices break 802.1X machine auth. The honest fixes, and why to sequence them first. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/entra-joined-vs-hybrid-joined/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/entra-joined-vs-hybrid-joined/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Most estates default to hybrid join out of caution, not need. What genuinely still requires line of sight to AD, what only appears to, and how to evidence it. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/five-intune-health-check-findings/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/five-intune-health-check-findings/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Update rings that miss half the estate, compliance that checks nothing, stuck deployments: the five findings that surface in almost every Intune health check. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/configuration-drift-after-handover/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/configuration-drift-after-handover/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Estates leave a migration project pristine and decay quietly. Who changes what after handover, why nobody notices, and what disciplined drift management looks like. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-11-comanaged-upgrade-failures/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-11-comanaged-upgrade-failures/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Co-management splits update authority between Configuration Manager and Intune. When sliders, rings, WSUS and GPO remnants disagree, Windows 11 upgrades stall silently. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-10-support-has-ended/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-10-support-has-ended/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Windows 10 reached end of support on 14 October 2025. What actually changed, what did not, and how to run the exit if your estate missed the date. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-10-esu-decision/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-10-esu-decision/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Windows 10 ESU buys security-only updates at $61 a device, doubling each year. Who should pay the toll, who should not, and how to decide honestly. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/autopilot-isnt-a-strategy/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/autopilot-isnt-a-strategy/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Windows Autopilot is provisioning plumbing, not a deployment strategy. What actually breaks zero-touch projects, and what a real strategy looks like. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-10-one-hundred-days/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/windows-10-one-hundred-days/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Windows 10 support ends on 14 October 2025. With around one hundred days left, here is what a realistic migration plan still achieves, and what waiting has cost. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/rationalise-before-you-migrate/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/rationalise-before-you-migrate/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Windows 10 support ends 14 October 2025. Most estates plan to migrate every application just in case. Usage evidence lets you retire most of them first. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/embracing-microsoft-endpoint-manager/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/embracing-microsoft-endpoint-manager/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Why imaging and on-premises tooling no longer fit modern organisations, and how Intune brings device, app and security management into one platform. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/the-modern-workplace/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/the-modern-workplace/ Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 The Modern Workplace is the cloud-managed, security-first foundation for how people work now. What it is, why it matters and how to get there safely. https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/group-policy-objects/ https://make-ithappen.co.uk/insights/group-policy-objects/ Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Group Policy configured Windows estates for two decades. Left unchecked it becomes sprawling and unauditable. Take back control on the way to Intune.