Software & Apps

Imagine this: The Recall feature is like having cameras in every corner of your house that automatically take snapshots. You can simply ask, "Where did I put my keys?", "Did I drink milk yesterday?", or "What time did Mom leave in the morning?" using natural language. Sounds convenient, right?

Here’s the catch: while the cameras are connected to the internet, all data is stored securely in your home, and we promise not to send any of it to the server. You can disable this feature, but you can't remove the cameras.

So, would you want this system in your home? Yes or No?

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I'll go first! Here are my top three this year so far:

1. - As someone who embeds blocks a lot, this is a game changer. It allows you to edit them in place without going to the source note. It's a massive time-saver!

2. - Handwrite or draw directly in your markdown notes with a stylus pen! Perfect for those moments when typing just doesn't cut it.

3. - Create custom toolbars for specific notes that can either have commands or open notes. Navigating between notes in the mobile app has never been easier with this one.

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I just need to rant about Intune since this week has been rough. Trillion dollar company and Intune is the most half-baked product I've ever used. They make Adobe look like the most competent company on earth.

Some of my issues:

• Policy sets. Its a fantastic feature. Why doesn't it support half of the freaking product? I cant add win32 apps, scripts, remediations, etc.

• Why is it so inconsistent about when something is pushed? Sometimes it takes 5 minutes to push an app. Sometimes it takes the full 8 hours. Supposedly restarting helps but in my experience, this has not been the case.

• On-Demand remediation. I know this is in preview so ill cut it some slack, but I have never gotten this to work once. It stays stuck in pending forever, even after syncs/reboots.

• Autopilot. This is the better part of Intune. It works pretty well except when it randomly decides to fail, and you need a PhD to diagnose the logs because god forbid it gives us a useful error message.

• Kiosk mode. Windows 10 is approaching its EOL. Why does intune still not have all of the kiosk features that deploying an XML does? Also, why does Windows 11 still not support multi-app kiosk mode?

• When we deploy a new computer and the user signs in, they cant open company portal to install apps for at least 30minutes, but usually closer to an hour. Just says this device is already being managed. Even if its a brand new device that has never been enrolled before. Makes for a bad user experience.

• Updates. I might not know enough yet, but Intune seems to have almost no way to see what updates were applied to what machine. This seems like a very simple feature along with the ability to selectively choose which updates get applied and which ones should be uninstalled. Also its a crapshoot if an update will actually be pushed or not. We have a group and ring for pushing windows 11, and maybe 45% actually updated, with the rest of them not even offering windows 11, despite intune saying its offering it.

• Why is Microsoft locking all of the good features behind a paywall? Even if all of those features were built into the standard intune license, it would still be a half-baked product.

End rant, I'm sure I could easily add 100 more things that annoy me about intune. It annoys me so much because I genuinely think Intune is a really cool product and I want it to be better.