Updated: March 14, 2022 (August 5, 2019)

Intune Offers Administrative Templates for Managing Windows

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A new range of Intune settings closely resembles traditional Windows Group Policy Objects.
They could help organizations apply security policies and other kinds of policies to off-premises devices.
The new settings are more comprehensive than those previously offered by Intune mobile device management.
This capability generally requires Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise version 1703 or later, Intune, and Azure Active Directory Premium P1.

Intune administrative templates, which became available in July 2019, enable a broad selection of configuration enforcement controls over Windows 10, the OneDrive client software, Office 365 ProPlus, and recent versions of Office Professional Plus. They offer some of the capabilities of Windows Group Policy Objects (GPOs) without Active Directory.

Centralized Settings Without Active Directory

Intune’s administrative templates allow Intune administrators to deploy and maintain configurations on Windows 10 devices, including recent releases of Microsoft Office client software. Examples of administrative templates available through Intune include the following:

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