Category Intune

Most Intune environments do not fail because of bad settings. They fail because nobody knows what applies to what, why it exists, or what will happen if it changes.

If there is one place where Intune deployments quietly succeed or quietly collapse, it is application delivery. Not identity. Not Conditional Access. Not even Autopilot itself. Apps.

Most Intune deployments do not fail at enrollment. They fail much earlier - quietly, invisibly, and often without immediate symptoms.

A significant number of enterprise environments are going to live in co-management for years. Not because it’s the goal, but because it’s the practical reality of migrating a large Windows fleet from Configuration Manager to Intune without a full device…

Autopilot is the preferred provisioning path. It removes human variability, produces consistent enrollment outcomes, and scales without proportional IT effort. But not every device can go through Autopilot, and not every organization is ready for it. Designing a provisioning approach…

macOS enrollment into Intune looks similar to Windows enrollment on the surface – a device appears in the management plane, policies apply, compliance is evaluated. The underlying mechanics are meaningfully different, and treating macOS like a Windows variant produces deployments…

Licensing conversations in Microsoft environments are uncomfortable because they’re usually happening at the wrong time – after someone has already designed a deployment around capabilities that turn out to require a higher license tier than the organization has. This article…

Conditional Access enforcement is covered in Phase 8. But several decisions that determine whether Conditional Access works correctly belong in Phase 2 – before devices enroll, before policies are deployed, and before anyone touches the Conditional Access blade. This article…