Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Intune is Microsoft’s cloud-based endpoint management service. It is the system IT teams use to enroll, configure, secure, and monitor the devices a workforce uses — Windows and Mac computers, and iOS and Android phones and tablets — whether those devices are company-owned or personal.
What Microsoft Intune Does
- Device management (MDM) — enrolls devices and enforces configuration and security baselines, such as encryption, screen locks, and OS update policies.
- Application management (MAM) — controls how corporate data is handled inside apps, including on personal devices, without managing the whole device.
- Compliance policies — defines what makes a device “compliant” and feeds that status into conditional access decisions.
- Application deployment — pushes, updates, and removes software remotely.
- Remote actions — locks, retires, or selectively wipes corporate data from a lost or compromised device.
Intune and Conditional Access Work Together
Intune’s device-compliance signal is what makes modern access control meaningful. When Intune reports that a device is encrypted, patched, and policy-compliant, Microsoft Entra ID conditional access can allow it to reach company data — and block devices that are not. Together, Intune and Entra ID let a firm grant access based on the actual security state of the device, not just the user’s password.
Why Microsoft Intune Matters for Investment & Professional Firms
For DFW registered investment advisers, law firms, and accounting firms — many with hybrid teams and personal-device use — Intune is how the firm keeps client data controlled on every endpoint that touches it. Selective wipe protects client information when a device is lost; compliance policies provide examiners with documented endpoint controls. DKBinnovative deploys and manages Intune for investment-firm clients in Plano, Frisco, Irving, and Las Colinas as part of standard managed IT scope.