Microsoft Intune,
properly operated.
ParityFox designs, migrates, deploys and operates Microsoft Intune across Windows, macOS, iOS and Android — as a project when you need one, and as a standing engineering function when you need that instead.
Enrolling a device is the easy part. Microsoft gives you a tenant, a portal and a documented path to a managed endpoint, and most organisations reach it without much help. What follows is the hard part: keeping thousands of endpoints compliant, patched, encrypted and usable while the policy set grows, the application catalogue turns over, and the people who built it move on.
We treat Intune as an operational platform rather than an MDM configuration exercise. Policy architecture, enrollment, compliance, application lifecycle, update rings and identity integration all decay when nobody owns them. Most of the estates we are asked to fix were configured correctly once.
This work sits inside our managed operations practice rather than beside it. Endpoint management is where identity, security and daily IT operations meet, and it is rarely a problem worth solving in isolation.
Part of managed operations — with network security and automation alongside it.
Intune consulting
and architecture.
We review the environment you have, or design the one you do not. Both start from the same question: what is this estate actually required to do?
Current-state assessment
A structured read of the existing tenant — policy inventory, compliance posture, enrollment paths, application estate, and the distance between what is configured and what is enforced. You get findings and a prioritised remediation plan, not a licence upsell.
- Tenant and licensing review
- Policy and profile inventory
- Compliance and configuration drift
- Enrollment path analysis
Policy architecture
Most estates fail on structure, not settings. We design a policy hierarchy with clear ownership, predictable assignment and no silent conflicts, so a change in one place does not surface as a support ticket somewhere else.
- Configuration profile design
- Assignment and filter strategy
- Conflict prevention
- Naming and change standards
Enrollment and device strategy
Corporate, BYOD, shared, kiosk and contractor devices need different answers. We define which enrollment path each population takes, what it is given, and what it is denied.
- Corporate and BYOD boundaries
- MDM and MAM architecture
- Enrollment restrictions
- Shared, kiosk and frontline devices
Identity and access alignment
Intune's compliance signal is only worth producing if something consumes it. We align device compliance with Microsoft Entra ID and Conditional Access so access decisions reflect device state, not just credentials.
- Microsoft Entra ID integration
- Conditional Access alignment
- Device compliance as an access signal
- Hybrid and cloud-native identity
Administrative model
RBAC, scope tags and administrative boundaries designed for the organisation you actually have — including partners, regional teams and service desks that should see part of the estate and none of the rest.
- RBAC and role design
- Scope tags and administrative boundaries
- Delegated and partner access
- Change and approval process
Security baseline design
Security baselines, endpoint security policy and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration, set where the business can run them. The strictest baseline you cannot support is worth less than the sensible one you can.
- Security baselines
- Endpoint security policies
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- BitLocker and Windows Hello for Business
Intune
implementation.
Greenfield tenants and estate rebuilds, delivered in a sequence that can be tested at each step rather than switched on all at once.
Tenant and enrollment foundation
Tenant configuration, enrollment restrictions, device categories, and the naming and assignment standards that everything after this depends on.
- Microsoft Intune tenant configuration
- Enrollment restrictions and device limits
- Device categories and dynamic groups
- Naming, tagging and assignment standards
Windows
Windows Autopilot registration and deployment profiles, Microsoft Entra join, the Enrollment Status Page, and configuration profiles matched to how the business actually uses the device.
- Windows Autopilot and deployment profiles
- Microsoft Entra join and hybrid join
- Enrollment Status Page
- Configuration profiles and device restrictions
Apple and Android
Apple Business Manager and Automated Device Enrollment for macOS, iOS and iPadOS. Android Enterprise across fully managed, dedicated and work-profile modes.
- Apple Business Manager and ADE
- macOS, iOS and iPadOS profiles
- Android Enterprise enrollment modes
- Work profile and BYOD separation
Endpoint security
BitLocker, Windows Hello for Business, security baselines, antivirus and attack surface reduction policy — with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint wired into the compliance signal rather than sitting beside it.
- BitLocker and disk encryption
- Windows Hello for Business
- Endpoint security and ASR policy
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration
- Compliance policies and Conditional Access
Applications, updates and connectivity
The delivery layer: Win32 and store applications, certificates, Wi-Fi and VPN profiles, and update rings that stage releases instead of shipping them to everyone on the same morning.
- Win32, MSI and MSIX deployment
- Certificate deployment (SCEP and PKCS)
- Wi-Fi and VPN profiles
- Update rings and feature update policies
Move to modern endpoint management
without breaking operations.
Migrations rarely fail technically. They fail because a policy nobody documented turned out to be load-bearing, because the application only three people use is the one finance runs on, or because the rollback plan was a sentence on a slide.
We run them in the order that lets you stop: discovery, dependency mapping, a pilot group that genuinely represents the estate, staged waves, validation at each wave, and a rollback path that stays open until the last one closes.
We will not move every Group Policy object into Intune. A large share of any mature GPO set is dead, duplicated, or enforcing something the operating system now does by default. Rationalisation is part of the migration rather than a follow-up project — the point is to arrive with less than you left with.
- Configuration Manager to Intune
- SCCM and MECM estates moved to cloud-native management — or to co-management as a deliberate stage rather than a permanent condition.
- Co-management to cloud-native
- Workloads shifted one at a time, toward a defined end state instead of an indefinite split.
- Group Policy to Intune
- GPO analysis, rationalisation, and translation into configuration profiles and settings catalogue policy.
- Legacy MDM to Intune
- Third-party MDM estates migrated with the least re-enrollment disruption the platform allows.
- Manual builds to Autopilot
- Imaged and hand-provisioned devices replaced with identity-driven provisioning.
- Mobile estates
- iOS, iPadOS and Android fleets, including BYOD populations and work-profile separation.
- Application estate
- Packages rebuilt for Intune delivery, with obsolete applications retired rather than carried across.
- Endpoint security policy
- Encryption, antivirus and baseline policy migrated with the compliance signal intact throughout.
From unopened box
to managed endpoint.
A device ships from the vendor straight to the person using it. They sign in with their work identity. Everything else — policy, encryption, applications, security posture — arrives on its own. No image, no build bench, no shipping laptops to an office first.
Shipped
The hardware hash is registered against your tenant, by the vendor or by us. The device is known before it is opened.
Identity
The user signs in with their Microsoft Entra ID account. Enrollment is driven by who they are, not by who built the machine.
Policy
The Enrollment Status Page holds the device until the configuration, security policy and required applications that genuinely matter are on it.
Productive
The user reaches a desktop that is encrypted, compliant, patched and carrying the applications their role needs.
We design the deployment profiles, sequence the applications and set the Enrollment Status Page thresholds. The difference between a fifteen-minute provision and an hour of watching a progress bar is almost always decided here.
Pre-provisioning where devices need to arrive fully built, user-driven deployment where they do not, and hybrid join only where a real dependency requires it rather than as a default.
Autopilot is an operational surface, not a one-time build. Registration and de-registration as hardware turns over, profile changes as the estate changes, and the failure diagnosis that keeps enrollment success rates honest.
Application packaging
and deployment.
The most operationally repetitive work in endpoint management, and the work most visible to users when it goes wrong. It suits specialist delivery precisely because it never stops.
Packaging
Win32 applications wrapped for Intune delivery, MSI and MSIX where the vendor supports it, with install and uninstall logic that behaves the same on the thousandth device as on the first.
- Win32 (.intunewin) packaging
- MSI and MSIX deployment
- Silent install and uninstall logic
- Store and vendor-supplied applications
Detection and requirements
Detection rules that report the truth, requirement rules that stop delivery to machines that cannot take it, and dependency and supersedence chains that upgrade cleanly instead of stacking versions.
- Detection rules
- Requirement rules
- Dependencies
- Supersedence and version upgrades
Deployment rings
Staged rings from pilot to broad, so a bad package reaches a handful of people rather than the organisation.
- Pilot, early and broad rings
- Assignment and filter strategy
- Available and required delivery
- Install success monitoring
Lifecycle
Version tracking, scheduled upgrades, remediation of failed installs, and the retirement of applications nobody has opened in a year.
- Version and vendor release tracking
- Failed install remediation
- Retirement of obsolete applications
- Packaging documentation and handover
Managed Intune
operations.
Intune should not become another console someone opens when a ticket arrives. Run properly it is a standing engineering function: something in the estate changes every week, and most of it should be noticed before a user notices it.
Daily operations
Enrollment, configuration policy administration, application deployment and the steady flow of change requests — handled as routine work rather than as escalations.
- Device enrollment and re-enrollment
- Configuration and compliance policy changes
- Application deployment and updates
- Autopilot registration and profile administration
Compliance and security
Compliance monitoring with remediation attached to it, endpoint security policy management, Microsoft Defender integration, and certificate and profile renewal before an expiry becomes an outage.
- Compliance monitoring and remediation
- Endpoint security policy management
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint posture
- Certificate and profile lifecycle
Updates and remediation
Windows update rings driven and reviewed rather than set once, with proactive remediation scripts for the recurring faults that would otherwise become recurring tickets.
- Update ring management
- Feature update policy
- Proactive remediation scripts
- Patch compliance reporting
Escalation and investigation
L2 and L3 engineering for the problems a service desk cannot close: policy conflicts, failed deployments, enrollment failures, and the faults that only reproduce on certain hardware.
- Policy conflict remediation
- Failed deployment investigation
- Enrollment and sync failures
- Service health monitoring
Governance
Reporting that says what changed and what it cost, documentation kept current as a condition of the service, and a periodic operational review that decides what to retire.
- Change management and documentation
- Estate and compliance reporting
- Operational review
- Lifecycle and hardware refresh planning
Fully managed
We own the platform end to end and report against it.
Co-managed
Your team keeps ownership; we take the engineering depth and the escalations.
Project-based
A defined piece of work — an assessment, a migration, an Autopilot rollout — with a defined end.
Capacity
Named engineers working inside your delivery model, for a fixed period or an open one.
Endpoint management is part
of the security architecture.
Intune is not a security product, and anyone selling it as one will disappoint you. What it is, is the component that knows the state of the device — and device state is the signal most access decisions are missing.
Zero trust is the posture that falls out of wiring those components together honestly. It works when compliance is enforced rather than reported, and when a device that drifts out of policy loses access without anyone filing a ticket about it. That is a design decision, and plenty of estates have quietly declined to make it.
More on the posture in zero-trust is a posture, not a product.
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Establishes user identity and holds the access policy.
- Microsoft Intune
- Establishes device identity and enforces the compliance standard.
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Contributes device risk from what it has actually observed.
- Conditional Access
- Consumes user, device and risk signals, and decides what the session reaches.
- BitLocker and Windows Hello for Business
- Encryption and credential controls that Intune deploys, enforces and reports on.
- Microsoft 365
- The resources the whole arrangement exists to protect.
Four platforms.
Not one policy set.
Intune manages Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS and Android — but not identically, and estates that pretend otherwise are the ones users route around. Each platform exposes a different management surface, and policy should be designed to what the operating system offers rather than to what Windows taught you to expect.
Windows
The deepest management surface of the four: settings catalogue, security baselines, update rings, Win32 delivery, Autopilot provisioning and proactive remediation.
- Autopilot and Microsoft Entra join
- Settings catalogue and ADMX-backed policy
- Update rings and feature updates
- Win32 packaging and remediation scripts
macOS
Managed properly rather than merely enrolled — declarative device management, Apple Business Manager enrollment, FileVault, and applications delivered as packages instead of left to users.
- Apple Business Manager and ADE
- FileVault encryption and key escrow
- Configuration profiles and shell scripts
- Platform SSO and application delivery
iOS and iPadOS
Where the corporate and personal boundary is sharpest. Supervised corporate devices get device management; personal devices get application protection and nothing further.
- Supervised and ADE-enrolled devices
- App protection policies (MAM)
- Per-app VPN and managed applications
- BYOD without device enrollment
Android
Android Enterprise across fully managed, dedicated and work-profile modes — chosen per population, because a shared warehouse scanner and a personal handset are not the same problem.
- Fully managed and dedicated devices
- Work profile for BYOD
- Managed Google Play
- Kiosk and single-app configurations
Application management without enrollment matters more than most estates admit. For contractors, personal devices and populations you will never be permitted to manage, protecting the data inside the application is the only control you actually get.
Intune delivery for
technology partners.
Need Intune capacity without building another team?
We work behind MSPs, consulting firms, IT service providers and system integrators as specialist engineering capacity — inside your delivery model, your process and your customer relationship. The work carries your name.
This is depth rather than volume. Intune is narrow enough that keeping a full team on it is hard to justify before the pipeline exists, and deep enough that a capable generalist will lose days to problems a specialist has already seen.
Project engineering
Implementation and migration delivery on your customer engagements — architecture through to cutover, working to your plan or helping you build one.
- Implementation and migration delivery
- Customer environment assessments
- Autopilot rollouts
- Architecture and design support
Ongoing capacity
BAU Intune administration and L2/L3 escalation for customer estates you hold the contract on, staffed by named engineers rather than a ticket queue.
- BAU Intune administration
- L2 and L3 escalation
- Application packaging at volume
- Remediation and backlog clearance
Documentation and handover
Every engagement ends with your team able to run what we built. Documentation, as-built records and a handover session are deliverables, not favours.
- As-built documentation
- Runbooks and operational procedures
- Knowledge transfer sessions
- Structured engineering handover
- NDA first. We sign before scope, not after.
- Your customer relationship stays yours. We do not approach, market to, or contract with your customers — during an engagement or after it.
- Partner-led communication by default. We join customer calls as your team when you want us there, and stay off them when you do not.
- Customer confidentiality maintained across engagements, with access scoped to what the work requires.
- Capacity that flexes — a short project, a named engineer for a quarter, or a standing allocation.
Assess. Design.
Implement. Operate.
The same four movements as every ParityFox engagement, applied to endpoints. Nothing gets built before somebody has explained what is already there.
Assess
Understand the estate as it is — devices, policies, identity, applications, security posture, and who currently owns which part of it. Findings before recommendations.
Design
Architecture, policy standards, enrollment paths, security baselines and the migration approach: written down, reviewed with you, and agreed before anything moves.
Implement
Pilot, validate, then deploy in waves. Every wave has an exit condition and a way back, and the rollback path stays open until the last one closes.
Operate
Monitor, remediate, patch, package and review. The estate keeps changing, so the engineering does not stop at go-live.
What the practice
actually runs.
Reported as current minimums. We would rather understate the estate than round it up.
Where these
conversations start.
Close to verbatim, from first calls.
- “We have Intune, but nobody really owns it.”
- Usually true, and rarely anyone's fault — it was configured during a project, and the project ended. We start with an assessment, hand you the findings, and you decide whether we run it or you do.
- “We need to move off SCCM.”
- Co-management first, or cloud-native directly, depending on what still depends on the distribution point. Either way the answer starts with a dependency map rather than a migration date.
- “Autopilot works for some devices and fails for others.”
- Almost always hardware hash registration, profile assignment, or an Enrollment Status Page waiting on an application that will never install. All three are diagnosable in hours, not weeks.
- “Our policies have grown without governance.”
- Conflicting profiles, orphaned assignments, and settings applied three times from two places. The fix is structural, and it is almost always a reduction rather than an addition.
- “We need hundreds of applications packaged and kept current.”
- Steady, repeatable engineering with a clear rate and a clear throughput. It is the easiest thing on this page to scope accurately.
- “Security wants device compliance wired to Conditional Access.”
- The right instinct, and the point at which estates most often stop at reporting instead of enforcement. The work is deciding what happens to a non-compliant device — and then letting it happen.
- “We need specialist Intune capacity for a customer project.”
- We work behind your delivery model under NDA. Your customer, your relationship, our engineers.
Frequently
asked.
What Microsoft Intune services does ParityFox provide?
Can ParityFox manage an existing Intune environment?
Do you provide SCCM to Intune migration?
Can you manage Windows Autopilot?
Do you support macOS through Intune?
Can you package and deploy Win32 applications?
Do you provide Intune managed services?
Can ParityFox work alongside our internal IT team?
Do you provide Intune engineers to MSPs or technology partners?
Can ParityFox deliver Intune services under a partner-led engagement?
Do you support Microsoft Defender and Conditional Access integration?
Can you assess an Intune environment before proposing changes?
Need Intune managed properly?
A new implementation, a migration you would rather not run alone, an Autopilot problem you have been carrying for a month, or an estate that needs someone to own it. Tell us what you run and what is hurting — a senior engineer replies, not a sales script.
Talk to our Intune teamNeed additional Intune delivery capacity?
Specialist engineering behind your customer relationship — project delivery, BAU administration, packaging at volume, or L2/L3 depth. Under NDA, inside your delivery model, under your name.
Discuss a partner engagement