Intune is a powerful business tool that’s part of the Microsoft 365 suite. Many organisations use this in order to manage and maintain their IT infrastructure, it essentially gives IT teams the ability to configure settings, enforce security policies, deploy apps, and ensure compliance across a wide range of devices, whether they’re Windows devices, Macs, Apple iOS or Android based devices.

How can Intune help the Education sector?

Education environments do have some unique challenges, for example: shared devices, safeguarding requirements, small IT teams, and the need to keep students focused and safe whilst using technology, Intune can aid with this in a number of ways.

Simplified Device Deployment

Schools can set up large numbers of devices quickly using features like Autopilot and Apple School Manager integration. Devices arrive ready to use, preconfigured with the right apps and settings for students or staff.

Security

Intune helps enforce safe browsing, restrict inappropriate apps, and ensure devices comply with security policies. Lost or stolen devices can be locked or wiped remotely, protecting the school’s data.

Different Profiles for Students and Staff

Intune allows different profiles for different groups, for example, a more restricted environment for students and a more lenient setup for teachers. Shared devices can reset automatically between users to keep things straight forward and fully compliant.

App and Resource Management

Schools’ IT teams can push out learning apps, classroom tools, and updates without touching each device. This reduces classroom disruption and keeps everything running smoothly, they can also restrict access to certain resources to only Intune compliant devices.

Cost-Effective and Scalable

Because Intune is cloud-based, schools don’t need on‑premises infrastructure for this level of MDM (Mobile Device Management), the licences are fully flexible on a monthly basis, so the costs can be adapted as staffing or student requirements change.

Built for Microsoft 365

Intune works hand‑in‑hand with tools many schools already use, for example, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and more. Therefore, Intune is simply an extension of the IT infrastructure that is already likely in place and will work with the current environment to ensure individual devices security and compliance.

How Beaming Can support you:

Intune managed by Beaming is configured in such a way that Beaming engineers are pro-actively notified of any device vulnerabilities and automatic remediation where possible, if automatic remediation is not possible, then we actively engage with the client to ensure that the vulnerabilities are patched in a timely way.

Additionally, devices are set to strict compliance policies which are agreed with the internal IT teams to ensure that any non-compliant devices are not able to access the sensitive resources education establishments hold.