Microsoft Intune
What is Microsoft Intune, what does it do, and what does it not?
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What is Microsoft Intune?
Microsoft Intune is a service for managing devices and applications from the cloud. It ensures that a company’s laptops, smartphones and tablets are set up consistently, enforce the applicable security rules and can be wiped remotely: regardless of where the device is.
For a time the service was presented as part of "Microsoft Endpoint Manager". Microsoft retired that umbrella name in 2023; the products are called Microsoft Intune again. Anyone who knows the older term means the same thing.
Device management (MDM): the device is managed as a whole; setup, encryption, updates, and remote wipe if it is lost
Application management (MAM): only the company data inside an app is managed, without touching the private device
Policies: the conditions a device must meet before it may access company data
Autopilot: a new laptop configures itself on first start, without passing through the IT department first
What Intune does, and what it does not
Intune manages devices and applications. It is neither antivirus nor backup, and it does not replace a permission structure. This distinction is the most common reason for disappointment after a rollout.
Intune makes sure antivirus is active: it does not provide the protection itself. That is a separate solution, see endpoint protection.
Intune ensures devices are encrypted. That is not a backup of the data: that is what backup solutions are for.
Intune enforces rules. Which rules make sense is for the company to decide, and that is exactly where the effort of a rollout sits.
The effort therefore rarely lies in the technology but in what comes before: which device types exist, who owns them, what may stay private, and what happens when someone leaves. We work through that as part of the modern workplace and set Intune up afterwards. A first conversation costs nothing: talk to us.
Configure policies for your corporate devices easily & quickly thanks to Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Intune enables you to manage endpoints using various rules and rule sets. This includes provisioning, software distribution and various policies in the area of Endpoint Security.
Microsoft Intune, a part of Endpoint Manager, is a Microsoft 365 cloud-based solution in the area of Enterprise Mobility and Security… Intune is part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, the comprehensive platform for cloud-based device management. In addition to mobile device management, for which Intune has long been used, the focus is equally on app administration and, above all, Endpoint Security.
The policies defined in your organisation can thus be set as standard for the use of applications and devices. Microsoft Intune supports you in implementing control over security policies effectively and automatically ensures their compliance.
If no standards have been defined in your organisation yet, Intune also helps you to integrate so-called Default Rules, i.e. existing standard policies, easily.
Protection and separation of personal data and corporate data
With Microsoft Intune, you have many configuration options for your employees' mobile devices in advance. This allows you to define, what happens to personal data on a company mobile phone or corporate data on a personal phone upon departure of the employee from the organisation as required.
Microsoft AutoPilot: Powerful MDM solution in Endpoint Manager
Through Mobile Device Management in Intune, data and apps on mobile devices can be classified, monitored and controlled. If a device is stolen or lost, you can also protect your corporate data from unauthorised access. This is because Microsoft Endpoint Manager features the ability to locate an endpoint or wipe it via remote maintenance (reset). This is part of Autopilot. To ensure you are on the safe side and act in accordance with legal requirements, we support you directly from initial setup onwards with advice and practical assistance during implementation.
AutoPilot for Microsoft Intune thus offers you the following advantages, allowing you to save even more time and money:
minimised administrative effort
replacing devices becomes child's play
fewer manual tasks
no need to hand over devices for software configuration
uniform installations/settings and standardisation
Endpoint Security through rule sets for increased protection of your corporate data
Rely on Microsoft Intune and NMS now
As a Microsoft Solution Partner and Advanced Modern Workplace Specialist, NMS is your reliable IT service provider and supports you from planning through to implementation.
Microsoft Intune and AutoPilot are suitable for the Windows, Android, macOS and iOS operating systems.
As we tailor the Modern Workplace concept individually to each customer, prices vary depending on your requirements.
We will be pleased to advise you and find the right solution for you and your organisation.
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