Compliance policies are the bridge between Intune configuration and Conditional Access enforcement. Before you build individual policies, two tenant-wide settings need to be set correctly – and most environments have them wrong by default. Tenant-wide compliance settings first In Intune,…
The architecture article made the case for Autopatch as the default update approach when licensing allows. This one covers what it actually takes to get it running – the prerequisites that matter, how Autopatch groups work, and where manual update…
ASR rules are one of the highest-value security controls available in a Microsoft Defender environment. They’re also one of the easiest ways to break legitimate applications if you deploy them without understanding what you’re doing. The staged approach – Audit,…
BitLocker policy in Intune looks straightforward until you try to deploy it silently and it doesn’t work. The settings that control silent encryption are non-obvious, the policy type matters more than most people realize, and hybrid joined devices behave differently…
The architecture article explained why modular baselines are the right approach. This one covers how to actually deploy OIB – what you need before you start, how the import works, what to watch for, and how to roll it out…
Before Autopilot can provision a device, that device needs to be registered. Registration ties a specific piece of hardware to your tenant. Without it, the device powers on and goes through a standard Windows setup – Autopilot never triggers. There…
The Enrollment Status Page is the most visible part of the Autopilot experience and the most common source of Autopilot failures. Getting it right matters more than almost any other provisioning decision. The ESP holds the device at the setup…
The Autopilot profile is the first decision point in the provisioning flow. It determines the deployment mode, the out-of-box experience, and how much control the user has during setup. Most environments need one profile. Some need two. Almost nobody needs…
