July 6, 2024

Intune Platform Support

Wes Miller analyzes and writes about Microsoft’s security, identity management, and systems management technologies. Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Wes... more

Intune provides hosted mobile device management and mobile application management.
These capabilities are designed to secure the OS, applications, and data on managed devices.
Using Intune to manage desktop OSs remains complicated due to their general-purpose roles and broad platform capabilities.

Intune (officially named Microsoft Intune) is a Microsoft-hosted service that provides mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) for Apple mobile devices (iOS/iPadOS), Android mobile devices, and PCs running supported versions of Windows or macOS. Microsoft has increasingly added management capabilities for the Windows desktop OS to Intune, including legacy technologies like Group Policy and PowerShell, most recently adding deployment of Windows drivers and firmware.

Intune Basics

For all platforms other than Linux and ChromeOS, Intune manages the OS, applications, and data on mobile devices and disconnected PCs using standardized MDM protocols and capabilities

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