Intune Assessment

Get a Clear Picture of Your Intune Environment

Microsoft Intune environments tend to grow over time. New policies are created, applications are added, security settings evolve, administrators change, and Microsoft continues to introduce new management capabilities.

The environment may be working well, but that does not always mean it is configured as efficiently, securely, or simply as it could be.

Our Microsoft Intune Assessment provides an independent technical review of your existing Intune environment. Our consultants review the configuration, identify potential issues and opportunities for improvement, and provide a prioritized list of recommendations based on your current environment.

The goal is not to redesign everything. It is to understand what you have today, identify what should be improved, and provide your IT team with a clear roadmap for the next steps.

What Does Our Intune Assessment Cover?

The assessment reviews the main components involved in managing your Windows endpoints with Microsoft Intune. The exact scope can be adjusted depending on your environment, requirements, and technologies currently in use.

Device Enrollment

We review how devices are enrolled and managed in Intune, including:

  • Windows enrollment methods
  • Enrollment restrictions
  • Corporate vs. personal device configuration
  • Device ownership
  • Automatic enrollment
  • Enrollment profiles
  • Device limits
  • Enrollment-related configuration

The objective is to make sure devices are entering Intune through the expected process and are receiving the correct management configuration.

Windows Autopilot

For organizations using Windows Autopilot, we review the complete provisioning process, including:

  • Autopilot deployment profiles
  • Enrollment Status Page
  • Group Tags
  • Dynamic Entra ID groups
  • Device naming
  • Required applications during provisioning
  • Pre-provisioning
  • Enrollment restrictions
  • User-driven and self-deploying scenarios
  • Overall Autopilot deployment flow

We also look for configurations that may be slowing down provisioning or creating unnecessary deployment failures.

Configuration Profiles

Configuration profiles are often one of the areas where an Intune environment becomes complicated over time.

We review:

  • Settings Catalog policies
  • Administrative Templates
  • Device restrictions
  • Custom configuration profiles
  • CSP-based configurations
  • User and device targeting
  • Policy conflicts
  • Duplicate settings
  • Old or unused policies

The goal is to identify overlapping configurations and simplify the environment where possible.

Endpoint Security

Security is an important part of the assessment.

Depending on the technologies in use, we review areas such as:

  • Microsoft Defender Antivirus
  • Microsoft Defender Firewall
  • Attack Surface Reduction rules
  • Endpoint Detection and Response
  • BitLocker
  • Windows LAPS
  • Account protection
  • Windows Hello for Business
  • Security baselines
  • Endpoint Security policies

We identify security gaps and configuration issues while also considering the operational impact of recommended changes.

Our objective is not simply to enable every available security setting. Recommendations need to make sense for your users, applications, and business requirements.

Compliance and Conditional Access

Compliance policies are most useful when they are part of a complete access strategy.

We review:

  • Device compliance policies
  • Compliance requirements
  • Actions for non-compliance
  • Grace periods
  • User notifications
  • Device compliance status
  • Conditional Access integration
  • Compliance targeting

We also verify that devices marked as non-compliant are handled according to the organization’s security requirements.

Application Management

Application deployment can represent a significant part of the Intune administrative workload.

We review areas such as:

  • Win32 applications
  • Microsoft Store applications
  • Required and available assignments
  • Detection methods
  • Requirement rules
  • Dependencies
  • Supersedence
  • Install and uninstall commands
  • Application targeting
  • Deployment failures
  • Application update strategy

We can also identify opportunities to simplify application packaging and automate third-party application updates.

Windows Update Management

We review how Windows updates are managed across the environment, including:

  • Windows Update Rings
  • Feature Update policies
  • Quality Update policies
  • Driver Update policies
  • Pilot and production groups
  • Deployment deadlines
  • Restart behavior
  • Windows Autopatch
  • Existing update strategy

The objective is to determine whether the current update configuration provides the right balance between control, user experience, and administrative effort.

Assignments, Groups and Filters

A well-configured policy can still create problems if it is assigned incorrectly.

We review how Intune policies and applications are targeted using:

  • Entra ID groups
  • Dynamic groups
  • User assignments
  • Device assignments
  • Assignment filters
  • Include and exclude groups
  • Pilot groups
  • Production groups

We look for unnecessary complexity and recommend a more consistent assignment strategy when appropriate.

Role-Based Access Control

Administrative access should provide IT staff with the permissions they need without giving unnecessary access to the entire Intune environment.

We review:

  • Intune RBAC roles
  • Built-in and custom roles
  • Role assignments
  • Administrative groups
  • Scope Groups
  • Scope Tags
  • Administrative permissions

This can help identify excessive permissions and improve the separation of administrative responsibilities.

Device Health, Monitoring and Reporting

We also review how the organization monitors the health of its managed devices and Intune deployments.

This can include:

  • Device inventory
  • Device compliance
  • Policy deployment status
  • Application deployment status
  • Configuration failures
  • Enrollment failures
  • Device cleanup
  • Stale devices
  • Intune reporting
  • Operational monitoring

The objective is to make sure administrators can easily identify problems and understand the overall health of the environment.

Identify Technical Debt in Your Intune Environment

One of the biggest benefits of an Intune Assessment is identifying configuration that has accumulated over time.

It is common to find:

  • Old test policies
  • Policies with no assignments
  • Duplicate configuration profiles
  • Multiple policies configuring the same settings
  • Unused Entra ID groups
  • Legacy configuration methods
  • Old applications
  • Unnecessary exclusions
  • Policies created for projects that are no longer active

These configurations do not always create an immediate problem, but they make Intune harder to understand and troubleshoot.

Cleaning up technical debt can make future projects and day-to-day administration much easier.

What Do You Receive?

At the end of the assessment, our consultants provide a documented review of the environment along with practical recommendations.

The deliverables typically include:

  • Review of the current Intune configuration
  • Identification of configuration issues and potential risks
  • Security recommendations
  • Identification of duplicate, legacy, or unused configuration
  • Best-practice recommendations
  • Opportunities to simplify administration
  • Recommendations for future Intune capabilities
  • Prioritized list of improvements
  • Review session with your IT team

Recommendations are prioritized so your team can understand what should be addressed first instead of receiving a long list of unrelated findings.

 

When Should You Consider an Intune Assessment?

An Intune Assessment can be useful if:

  • Your Intune environment has been running for several years
  • Multiple administrators have managed the environment
  • You are unsure if your configuration follows current best practices
  • You are experiencing policy or application deployment issues
  • Your Autopilot deployments are slow or unreliable
  • You want to improve endpoint security
  • You have accumulated a large number of policies and groups
  • You are preparing for a Windows 11 deployment
  • You are implementing Microsoft Defender
  • You are considering Windows Autopatch
  • You are migrating from SCCM to Intune
  • You want an independent review of your current configuration

You do not need to wait until something is broken.

An assessment can be just as valuable when everything appears to be working but your team wants confirmation that the environment is structured correctly.

Intune Assessment Before an SCCM to Intune Migration

An assessment is especially useful before an SCCM to Intune migration.

Migrating workloads does not necessarily mean recreating everything currently configured in Configuration Manager.

It is often a good opportunity to review existing processes, applications, configurations, security policies, and deployment methods before moving them to Intune.

This helps avoid migrating years of technical debt into the new environment and gives the migration project a cleaner starting point.

Why System Center Dudes?

System Center Dudes consultants work every day with Microsoft endpoint management technologies, including Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager, Windows Autopilot, Microsoft Defender, application deployment, and Windows management.

Our assessment is performed from an operational perspective.

We look at the environment the same way we would if we had to manage it ourselves:

Is the configuration clear? Is it secure? Is it easy to troubleshoot? Is there unnecessary complexity? What would we improve first?

The objective is not to generate unnecessary work or recommend rebuilding an environment that is already working.

It is to provide an experienced second opinion and help your team identify the improvements that will provide the most value.

Ready to Review Your Intune Environment?

Whether you are preparing for a major project or simply want to validate your current Intune configuration, our consultants can help you understand where your environment stands today and what should be improved next.

Request a Microsoft Intune Assessment

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