Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based endpoint management solution that manages user access to organizational resources and simplifies app and device management across your many devices, including mobile devices, desktop computers, and virtual endpoints. Some of the key features and benefits of Intune include:
- Allows management of users and devices (both organizational and personal) across platforms like Android, AOSP, iOS/iPadOS, macOS, and Windows, enabling secure access to organization resources through user-defined policies.
- Intune streamlines app management, offering in-built deployment, updates, and removal capabilities, integration with private app stores, Microsoft 365 app support, Win32 app deployment, and tools for app protection policies and data access control.
- Intune automates policy deployment for apps, security, device configuration, compliance, conditional access and more.
- The Company Portal app provides self-service features for employees and students, such as PIN/password resets, app installations, and more.
- Intune partners with mobile threat defense tools, including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and third-party services, to emphasize endpoint security, enabling policies for real-time threat response and automated remediation.
- Intune’s web-based admin center emphasizes endpoint management and data-driven reporting, allowing admins to sign in from any device with internet access