Enforcing policies with MDM
When a device becomes fully Azure AD joined, it opens new opportunities to layer and enforce security policies. Unlike domain-joined or hybrid-joined devices, a fully Azure AD joined device is not part of an on-premises domain, it never connects to a domain controller, and it does not receive Group Policy. Many organizations have years worth of GPOs that they rely on to harden their Windows systems and the question now becomes how to move and enforce these policies with MDM. The answer is to use Configuration Manager, Intune, or a combination of the two with co-management. Unfortunately, there is no clear lift-and-shift path, and part of the challenge is the auditing and evaluation of what currently exists.
In this section, we are going to learn about creating and enforcing policies with MDM. We will walk through how to build, assign, and enforce compliance settings such as configuration items and configuration baselines in Configuration Manager and how...