Managing devices with Intune
Microsoft Intune is an Azure-based device management solution and is a standard for MDM and Mobile Application Management (MAM). Intune has a full feature set for deploying apps and configurations with support for Windows, macOS, iPadOS, and mobile platforms such as iOS and Android. It is a single solution to enforce security baselines and device configurations, manage endpoint security, deploy applications and layer protection policies, and much more.
As mentioned earlier, Intune can be integrated with Configuration Manager for co-management, as well as connected to solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and other third-party mobile threat defense partners. Before we jump into enforcing policies, let's review some of the core concepts of Intune MDM. In the next section, we will cover the following topics as they relate to features in Intune:
- Configuration Service Provider (CSP)
- MDM versus MAM or Intune App Protection Polices...