Introduction to the Microsoft Intune product family
Introduction
This post is recommended for any reader who is new to Intune or would like to get a high-level overview of the Intune product family. It will contain the product, feature and service names and a description of their purpose, as well as references to my dedicated blog posts on the topics.
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Endpoint Management with Microsoft Intune
Welcome to this coast! Learn everything on Endpoint Management with Microsoft Intune to deploy, manage, secure and monitor endpoints from all platforms through the cloud. Introduction, experience and thoughts Introduction to the Microsoft Intune product familyIntroduction This post is recommended for any reader who is new to Intune or would
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High-level architecture
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Overview
Intune - view all blog posts
- Intune - Microsoft's device management product family
- Device configuration - define settings, behavior and customize devices
- Data protection - Control access, interaction and deletion of company data on (un)managed devices
- App management - Deploy apps and configure application related settings
- Intune Suite - blog post
- Core capabilities - Cross-platform endpoint management, security, analytics and Microsoft Configuration Manager + Intune
- Tunnel for MAM - VPN solution for iOS and Android without device enrollment (through app)
- Management of specialty devices - Manage special, purpose-built devices (AR/VR headsets, digital signange, meeting room devices)
- Remote Help - Remote assisstance for helpdesk
- Endpoint Privilege Management - Feature for elevation management in Windows
- Advanced Endpoint Analytics - Collect and analyze data from endpoints, anomaly detection
- MDM and MAM - Mobile Device Management and Mobile Application Management - blog post
- Autopilot - Enterprise capability to setup Windows for organizational use
- Graph API - Gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365 - blog post
- Windows Update - Built-in service for Windows to download and install updates - blog post
- Windows Update for Business deployment service** - Allows organizations to control and manage the Windows Update deloyments to their devices
- Apps
- Apple App Store
- Google Play Store
- Microsoft Store
- Endpoint analytics - Analyze and improve the performance and health of the devices
- Intune Data Warehouse - Access historical and current Intune data through the OData standard
- Log Analytics - First-party log storage and query product - blog post
- Microsoft Configuration Manager - Predecessor of Intune, server-based
- Co-management - Enable clients which are managed through ConfigMgr to use workloads from Intune
- Mobile Threat Defense connector - Integrate data from a Mobile Threat Defense vendor as data and intelligence source
- Network Access Control partner - NAC integration which controlls access to corporate network or VPN
Azure AD (Entra) - Identity and access management
- Azure AD - Microsoft's central identity provider - blog post
- Conditional access - control access to organizational resources by evaluating signals - blog post