As of July 2026 the Intune Suite is folded into Microsoft 365 E3 and E5. What landed in each plan, the EM+S carve-out that will catch people, what each component is, and the deliberate order I would adopt them in.
Enterprise App Management is Microsoft's managed application supply chain. What it actually is, the packaging labor it removes, how it is now licensed through E5, and where it sits against Winget and the deeper third-party tools.
Auto-update turns Enterprise App Management from a packaging accelerator into a managed patch service. What that actually trades away, and the narrow scope where the trade is worth making.
Once you accept that Conditional Access is the real control plane, the next question is how to organize it, and this is where most tenants go wrong. Not because they pick the wrong controls, but because they never pick a…
A Conditional Access framework is not a project you finish, it is a system you operate. The reviews, the break-glass test nobody wants to run, the monthly drift check, and the change discipline that keeps a snapshot true a year later.
Most of a Conditional Access deployment is about people who already exist. The harder problem, and the one baselines almost never address, is the person who does not exist yet. A new hire on their first morning has no registered…
At the end of the build you have a tenant full of Conditional Access policies that do nothing. Every one of them is in report-only. That is the correct state, and it is also the most dangerous moment in the…
The design paper made the case. This is the part where you actually stand up the framework in a tenant, and it is where the gap between “imported the policies” and “operates the policies” stops being rhetorical. I built the…
