Connecting Microsoft Intune to CM

The main goal of connecting Microsoft Intune to CM is to offer the administrator a one-stop solution to administer mobile devices as well as desktop devices. But that is not the only benefit coming from that integration. Here's a non-complete list of improvements when integrating with CM:

• Management using PowerShell (Intune doesn't provide any PowerShell interface)

• Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Advanced User and Device grouping

• Scalibility (Standalone Intune tenant supports up to 50,000 devices. CM integrated with Intune can manage up to 300,000 devices)

Microsoft provides a detailed list of pros and cons of standalone versus hybrid mode, which will help you decide whether to use Microsoft Intune in a standalone or hybrid way https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt706478.aspx.

Getting ready

To make that integration, you need to prepare the following:

1. An active Microsoft Intune subscription and the admin account credentials.

2. A synchronized Active Directory...