Wednesday, 21 January 2026

Managed Home Screen actions receive Graph links and support caveats

The new Managed Home Screen remote actions are polished with direct Microsoft Graph action references. Related guidance adds a clear warning that deploying standalone Windows update packages as Win32 apps is an as-is workaround, and notes that Android battery optimization can prevent Intune notifications from arriving.

• Intune · General

  Managed Home Screen remote actions link to their Graph operations

  The restore and suspend guides now point to the restoreManagedHomeScreen and temporarilySuspendManagedHomeScreen Graph actions, alongside the managedDevice resource, giving automation teams the canonical operation names.

• Intune · App management

  Win32 deployment of MSU packages is explicitly not recommended

  The Windows update-package article continues to describe packaging an MSU as a Win32 app, but now labels the approach as as-is and not a recommended way to deploy updates.

• Intune · General

  Custom notification guidance calls out Android battery optimization

  The documentation warns that device battery-optimization settings can prevent notification delivery and suggests disabling optimization for Company Portal or the Intune app where reliable notification delivery is required.

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