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.
On my blog, you can find various topics related to Intune here:
Endpoint Management with Microsoft Intune
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High-level architecture
Microsoft recently published this high-level architecture image.
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