Mobile enrollment is where Intune’s flexibility becomes its complexity. Windows and Mac enrollment paths are relatively constrained. Mobile is not. iOS and Android each have multiple enrollment modes, each with different management capabilities, different user experiences, and different implications for…
Enrollment restrictions are the first line of control over what gets into your Intune environment. Most deployments leave them at default. That’s a mistake. The default enrollment restriction allows any device on any platform to enroll. That’s fine for a…
Naming conventions are not bureaucracy. In an environment without the hierarchy that Group Policy provided, names are the only structural documentation you have. The architecture article explained why naming discipline matters – Intune has no OU structure, no inheritance, no…
Group structure is one of those decisions that feels low-stakes early and becomes load-bearing later. Get it wrong and you spend the next two years working around it. The architecture article covered the principles – dynamic versus assigned groups, the…
Zero Trust is easy to agree with in principle and easy to get wrong in practice. The model is sound. The gap is in understanding what actually changes when you operate inside it. The previous article covered why the trust…
The most common reason organizations end up in an MDM migration isn’t dissatisfaction with their current platform – it’s the realization that they already own Intune. It’s included in their Microsoft 365 licensing, it’s managing their Windows fleet, and the…
Global Secure Access licensing follows the traffic forwarding profile, which makes the whole model easier to reason about than the SKU list suggests. Here is what each profile costs, what the free tier really includes, and the three meters that are not on the price page.
Windows Autopilot is often introduced as a way to “skip imaging,” but that framing misses the real value. Autopilot is not about saving a few setup steps. It is about removing human variability from device provisioning entirely.
