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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…
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.
Most Intune environments do not fail because of a bad policy. They fail because devices arrive without intention.
Security baselines promise order. They suggest that someone has already done the hard thinking, weighed the risks, and produced a sensible starting point you can apply with confidence.
Most organizations don’t approach Intune from a clean, cloud-native starting point. They arrive with years of Active Directory decisions, deeply embedded Group Policy objects, and devices that were never designed to operate independently of the corporate network. Hybrid Entra ID Join exists because of this reality, not because it represents an ideal endpoint state.
Every Intune environment eventually reaches a moment where something goes wrong-not because of a bad policy, but because too many people could change too many things.
