How to streamline Intune security policies across multiple tenants
Scaling security baselines across multiple client tenants while balancing strict institutional controls with unique user needs makes policy maintenance extremely difficult. This friction prevents IT providers from efficiently standardizing configurations and keeping systems manageable.
What people tried
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How to streamline Intune security policies across multiple tenants
- 1deploying policies through CIPP via Standards in a central baseline templateDid this help you?
- 2leaving baseline policies in auditing mode to selectively deploy themDid this help you?
- 3Enforcing centralized log collection and EDR while letting users retain specific administrative accessDid this help you?
- 4Placing systems in restricted network segments to isolate potential risksDid this help you?
- 5Replacing dual-boot setups with dedicated single-use hardware or virtual machinesDid this help you?
In their words
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“Wanted to get communities opinion on it and what's been working best for streamlining policy configurations and getting more granular with intune policies.”source ↗
“Historically, faculty have had significant control over these systems because they support specialized research and instructional needs, but we're evaluating how IT should be involved going forward to ensure security, supportability, continuity, and institutional ownership without unnecessarily limiting academic flexibility.”source ↗
“The one time I dealt with that, it made maintenance of both damned near impossible.”source ↗
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