Mac management in Microsoft Intune has become a key topic for many IT teams, and in this guide I will walk you through it step by step. I have already described in one of my first blogs how you can set up an Intune development environment and enroll Windows devices via Autopilot and manage them. Apart from Windows, you can also manage iOS, Android and MacOS very well with Intune. Apple offers a good interface (MDM Protocol) to manage MacOS devices, unfortunately not all options are supported with Intune. Also in the WWDC22 there was some great new features introduced.
MacOS support was added to Intune back in 2015. At that time, Mac management in Microsoft Intune was still very limited – something that has changed a lot in the meantime. The number of companies using Mac devices is growing more and more, as is the general market share of macOS compared to Windows. This was around 3% in 2009 and has risen to 15% today (2022). Of course, Windows is still in front, but a clear trend can be seen, and that is exactly why Mac management in Microsoft Intune matters more every year.
There are a lot of worthy blogs that deal with the topic of Mac management in Microsoft Intune:
- Comprehensive guide to managing macOS with Intune by Oliver Kieselbach
- Corporate macOS Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) to MEM/Intune by Hubert Maslowski
- Microsoft Intune Vs Jamf macOS Device Management Enhancements by Anoop C Nair
Just to name a few. Of course there are some great other blogs.
In this blog I want to give you a step by step guide on how to enroll a macOS device in Intune. This is the foundation of Mac management in Microsoft Intune, and there will be more blogs in the future on the topic of managing macOS with Intune.
