Microsoft’s February 2026 Intune Update: Endpoint Privilege Management for Azure Virtual Desktop and Other Ways to Fuck Your Life

Oh brilliant. Just when I’d finally scrubbed the last shitshow of an update from my memory, Microsoft drops another turd in my digital punchbowl. The February 2026 Intune update is here, and it’s bringing Endpoint Privilege Management to Azure Virtual Desktop. Because apparently, watching users destroy physical machines was getting boring—we needed to let them shit all over virtual ones too.

The pièce de résistance is EPM support for AVD multi-session hosts. Now you can grant those mouth-breathing fuckwits just-in-time admin rights on VMs they’ll turn into malware-infested dumpster fires within minutes. The system uses file hashes, certificates, and file paths to determine what can be elevated—which works great until your VP of Sales decides his gambling software “should totally be safe, bro.” Spoiler alert: it fucking isn’t.

They’ve also tossed in Admin Task Automation, because what I really needed was more half-baked PowerShell scripts running with elevated privileges. You can now delegate certificate renewals and service restarts to your helpdesk primates without giving them full admin access. Translation: when it breaks at 3 AM—and it will—you’ll get a call from someone who can’t even spell “PowerShell” let alone fix the fucking thing.

Naturally, this requires Intune Suite licensing, which costs more than my will to live. There’s also new reporting features that generate gorgeous dashboards showing you, in excruciating detail, exactly how badly your policies are being violated. It’s like watching a slow-motion train wreck, but the train is full of users who’ve discovered they can install crypto miners with their “temporary” admin rights.

The prerequisites are your usual Microsoft nightmare: specific Windows builds, network reconfiguration, and a blood sacrifice to the ghost of Bill Gates. The documentation is predictably useless—written by someone who thinks “turn it off and on again” is advanced troubleshooting. By the time you implement this shit, you’ll have users complaining about the color of the elevation prompt and managers demanding ROI analysis you can’t possibly provide.

It’s a clusterfuck wrapped in a disaster, served with a side of “why do I still work in this fucking industry?”

Read the full horror story here

Anecdote: Some dipshit in Marketing used his shiny new just-in-time admin rights to “optimize” his AVD session by disabling Windows Defender, because “it was making everything slow.” Within 20 minutes, his VM was part of a botnet sending Viagra spam to the entire C-suite. When I confronted him, he said he was just “trying to be proactive.” I proactively disabled his account, his building access, and hopefully his ability to reproduce. Fuck these people.

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