macOS compliance policies in Intune are shallower than Windows compliance policies. Not broken – just shallower. Knowing where the boundaries are before you design your compliance rules prevents the frustration of configuring requirements the platform can’t actually evaluate. The available…
Building a macOS management configuration in Intune from scratch involves a lot of decisions – FileVault policy, Firewall, Gatekeeper, login window security, screensaver enforcement, compliance policy, application deployment, scripts, custom attributes. Each requires research, testing, and an understanding of what…
Platform SSO is configured through a single Settings Catalog policy in Intune, and once you understand the three decisions it forces, it is not complicated. This is the implementation article: the prerequisites, the authentication method choice that everything hinges on,…
Platform SSO is the feature that closes the biggest gap in Mac management for Microsoft-centric environments. Before it, macOS identity integration with Entra ID was fundamentally weaker than Windows – users had a local account, a separate work account, and…
Managing Macs with Intune is not the same as managing Windows devices with Intune. The platform is different, the management model is different, the enrollment experience is different, and the depth of control available is different. Treating Mac management as…
Most Intune incidents aren’t caused by external threats or platform failures. They’re caused by changes – policy updates, application deployments, configuration adjustments – that behaved differently in production than expected. Change management in Intune isn’t bureaucracy. It’s the practice that…
Intune generates a lot of data. Most of it isn’t worth watching closely. The skill in day-two operations isn’t finding more things to monitor – it’s identifying the small set of signals that tell you something real, and ignoring the…
The most common iOS management mistake is looking for a middle ground that doesn’t exist. Organizations want some device control without full management, or they want to protect data without requiring full enrollment. Android has a model for this –…
