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
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1deploying policies through CIPP via Standards in a central baseline template
- 2leaving baseline policies in auditing mode to selectively deploy them
- 3Enforcing centralized log collection and EDR while letting users retain specific administrative access
- 4Placing systems in restricted network segments to isolate potential risks
- 5Replacing dual-boot setups with dedicated single-use hardware or virtual machines
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“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 ↗
Where this came up
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