One compromised Intune admin account can wipe every laptop and phone in your business in a few clicks. Intune multi admin approval is Microsoft's answer: a second administrator has to approve high-impact changes, like a device wipe
Most Intune compliance policies check that a device is encrypted, patched and has a PIN. None of that tells you whether the device is compromised right now. Feeding Defender device risk into Intune compliance closes that gap.
When a Win32 app in Intune misbehaves, the installer usually gets the blame. More often the real problem is the detection rule. Intune Win32 app detection rules are how Intune decides whether an app is installed. If
Once a business has more than one office, plant or clinic, Intune administration gets political. The local IT person at the second site needs to reset passcodes and push apps, but nobody wants them able to change
Drivers and firmware are the part of patching most small IT teams avoid. Leave them alone and laptops drift years behind on BIOS fixes and security updates. Push them carelessly and a bad dock or audio driver
Application allow-listing has a reputation problem. Everyone agrees that only letting approved software run is one of the strongest controls you can deploy, and almost everyone has a story about a project that blocked half the business
For a long time, Windows Autopatch was something small businesses read about but could not use, because it needed Enterprise E3 or E5 licensing. That changed in 2025, when Microsoft removed the separate feature activation step and
Three buttons in the Intune admin center cause more confusion than any others: Retire, Wipe and Delete. They sound similar, they all make a device go away in some sense, and picking the wrong one can mean
Windows Autopilot makes onboarding a new laptop feel effortless: unbox it, connect to Wi-Fi, sign in, and it builds itself. That convenience is exactly why Windows Autopilot security deserves attention. If the wrong device gets registered, or
Credential theft is still the shortest path from one infected laptop to a full network compromise. An attacker who can read password hashes and Kerberos tickets from memory can reuse them on other machines. Credential Guard, managed
