With Microsoft Intune, there is a lot of focus on the Mobile Device Management (MDM) aspects of the product. This is logical because from a management perspective, if you manage a device using MDM, you can configure almost all settings remotely, something we as System Administrators have been doing for many years.
In many situations, just managing the Apps which you use to access your company data hosted in Office 365 is a more suitable solution, there are a couple of reasons for that.
- Many companies who want to implement measures to protect their company data, already allow access to company data via email, apps but now want to manage that. End users, even the ones provided with a device owned by the company, use the device for personal usage as well.
- Implementing a MDM solution for mobile devices, is far more complex and more intensive from a system management point of view, in many cases the MDM solution provides way more functionality than what’s really required (protect the company data)
Mobile Application Management (MAM) in some cases is a perfect way to let your end-users use their device the way they are used to, but also implement security measures which protect your company’s most valuable asset: The data.
In this article I will go into more detail of the MAM without enrollment (MAM-WE) functionality provided by Microsoft Intune/Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
Disclaimer: This post reflects the status of assigning groups to Azure AD roles as of October 10, 2020. Functionality may change, even right after this post has been published.
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