Intune & Ubuntu 26.04

This is a follow-up to my earlier post: Intune & Ubuntu 24.04 revisited in 2026.

I found time finally to test the Intune Portal install script on Ubuntu 26.04. The results are really good, I only had one issue.

Intune Onboarding Flow on Ubuntu 26.04

I just followed the steps from my last blog post. So first I ran install script:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/shell-intune-samples/refs/heads/master/Linux/Intune%20Installer/installer.sh
chmod +x installer.sh
./installer.sh

This didn't give me much output. The logs stated ./installer.sh: line 277: EDGE_GPG_KEY: unbound variable. I went to the Issues page and found the issue mentioned by another user. The solution was quite simple: use an older commit because there was a logical error in the latest version of the script.

So I ran the command:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/shell-intune-samples/3006af4a2a8d11066b2e3bf21eae8f1617f27387/Linux/Intune%20Installer/installer.sh > install-intune.sh && chmod +x install-intune.sh && ./install-intune.sh && rm install-intune.sh

That did the trick:

Now it was time to do the same thing like I did before:

Step 1: Launch the Intune Portal App

Step 2: Sign in with your company account

Step 3: Click 'Begin' to start enrollment

Step 4: Wait for it to register...

Step 5: Reboot

Step 6: Run compliance check

What Also Improved

Another thing stood out immediately during this clean install of 26.04 on my older Dell XPS:

• The audio worked in one go. No need to apply the on-time permanent fix I had to do before.

This was on top of the 2 already huge improvement:

1. Secure Boot was enabled during installation, and I did not have to enroll any MOK keys this time.
2. Thunderbolt worked out of the box, and I did not need DisplayLink.

Conclusion

To be fair Ubuntu 24.04 had more impact than 26.04 in terms of installing Intune. Linux support was not that great because you had to use the repo of 22.04 to get the software, fiddle around with secure boot keys, thunderbolt drivers and separate repos for Bicep and Azure CLI. Like I said before: 2 years make a lot of difference. That is certainly the case for Ubuntu 26.04: it just works (with a minor tweak in running the install script).