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Intune
Also known as: Microsoft Intune
Microsoft's cloud platform for managing and securing every device in your organization — enforcing policies regardless of where they are.
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based device and application management platform. It's the system that enforces your IT policies across every device in your organization — Windows laptops, Macs, iPhones, Android — regardless of where they are.
What Intune does day-to-day: it pushes software to devices, enforces security policies (screen lock, disk encryption, VPN configurations), manages certificates, wipes lost or stolen devices remotely, and reports on device compliance.
For Microsoft-first organizations, Intune is the device management backbone. It integrates directly with Entra ID, which means you can define policy like "require a compliant, enrolled device to access company email" — and Intune enforces it automatically.
The distinction that matters: Intune manages the device. Entra ID manages the identity. Together they form Microsoft's modern device management stack, replacing the older model of on-premises domain joins and Group Policy.