Device compliance and authentication strength are the most common inputs to Conditional Access policies. They’re not the only ones. Named locations, sign-in risk, user risk, and Identity Protection signals give Conditional Access the ability to respond to context and threat…
Assignment intent is one of the most consequential decisions in application deployment and one of the least deliberate. Required, Available, and Uninstall aren’t interchangeable options for achieving the same outcome – they’re fundamentally different contracts between Intune and the device,…
Detection logic is where application deployment fails silently. The application installs. The user can open it. The help desk has no tickets. And Intune keeps reinstalling it every few hours because the detection rule never returns true. This happens more…
Most Mac fleets arriving at Intune aren’t starting from zero. They’re either managed by Jamf and the organization is consolidating to Intune, or they’re unmanaged – devices that have accumulated years of local configuration, user-installed software, and no management footprint…
Intune gives you five different ways to remove or reset a device, and the names don’t make the behavior obvious. Choosing the wrong one is usually recoverable – but occasionally it isn’t, and understanding what each action actually does before…
This guide documents the architecture, configuration, and deployment of Privileged Identity Management across a Microsoft Entra tenant. It is an internal methodology document covering break glass account setup, authentication context design, Conditional Access policy construction, PIM group structure, and role…
Most Intune content starts in the wrong place. It starts with clicks – screenshots of the portal, numbered steps, “navigate to Devices and select New Profile.” It assumes the reader’s problem is not knowing where to find things. That’s rarely…
There is no decrypt button in Intune. The order of operations that actually decrypts a device, when to suspend instead, and why Windows 11 24H2 made this workflow common.
