The choice between Work Profile and Fully Managed isn’t primarily a technical decision – it’s a device ownership decision that has technical consequences. Getting the ownership question right first makes the technical configuration straightforward. Getting it wrong produces a model…
Android enrollment generates more support tickets than almost anything else in a mobile deployment. Not because the process is technically complicated – it isn’t – but because the app requirements, the order of operations, and what users actually see during…
App Protection Policies are the mechanism that makes MAM work – they define what managed applications can and can’t do with corporate data. Getting the design right matters because a policy that’s too restrictive creates user friction that drives people…
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…
