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MD-102 deep review — September 27, 2026

The complete guide was read and 83 October objectives in 13 groups individually mapped. The accepted July 24 baseline remains separate from the October 27 revision. The credential confirms 100 minutes and seven languages; the course remains five days.

Learning changes

Five worked examples cover compliance denominators, backup/restore policy state, hotpatch eligibility, deployment target unions and remediation verification. The guide now has ten labs and 47 answered checks, including two added labs and eight new questions. Ten offline arithmetic/set/decision checks passed; no tenant, device, Graph mutation, script deployment, remote session, restore, hotpatch or preview rollout was executed.

New-policy app-protection guidance replaces the legacy approved-client-app recommendation. Deployment progression is distinguished from installation and rollback; live queries from collected inventory; custom compliance from paired remediation; and backup defaults from enabled restore. Agent-specific identity and lifecycle documentation qualifies the older general agent listing. Remote Help and Autopilot requirements are scoped to their actual deployment modes.

The Intune feed already includes September 28 entries; they remain future relative to this review. Five dated follow-ups cover rollout, shared app-grant guidance, agent identity, backup defaults and Arm application support. Specific current feature notes supersede older general prose where the documentation explains the transition; tenant availability was not tested.

Resource and blog decisions

Eight Learn paths list 34 modules. Earlier path runtimes totaling 29h46 are historical and were not exposed in this retrieval. Pluralsight's five courses total 13h19, with the introduction dated September 2024 and other courses dated March–May 2026. Public catalog metadata does not establish complete July/October coverage. O'Reilly and two Udemy item pages blocked access; historical runtime, question-count and scope claims are qualified, including unverified originality. Paid lessons/questions and the direct practice assessment were not consumed. Channel/partner shells and GitHub profile metadata do not validate their content.

  • Windows App Management in Microsoft Intune, Zachary Cavanell with Nicole Zhao, April 27, 2026: public article/transcript read, video not watched. The exercise follows evidence across the app lifecycle. Current docs qualify the older private-preview label and distinguish separate update/deployment demonstrations from supported combinations.
  • Windows settings backup becoming a new resilience baseline, Miranda Leschke, July 6, 2026: main article read, linked video not watched. The exercise separates explicit policy, scoped defaults and restore readiness.

The existing Agent 365 announcement remains adjacent context, not evidence that every Intune agent is available. Research and repair used the same AI context; independent and human review remain pending. The ledger at ADLC_Docs/operations/2026-09-27-md-102-deep-review.json preserves previous records, objective mapping, source observations, hashes, findings and local validation.