Dave Randall

Intune · Microsoft Graph · Endpoint management

Practical Intune guidance, one post at a time.

The deep dives behind my LinkedIn series. Each daily post gets a page here with the diagram, the details that don't fit in a post, and links to go further. Written for Intune customers and the partners who run Intune for them.

Former Senior Microsoft Product Manager for Intune and Configuration Manager.

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Dave Randall

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Intune RBAC

20 Days of Intune RBAC

One Intune role-based access control concept every weekday for four weeks, with a diagram, for Intune customers and the partners who manage Intune for them. It starts with the basics and builds to the parts that trip up experienced admins.

Running now · Day 5 of 20Latest: Day 5 →

Intune & Microsoft Graph

19 Days of Intune Graph

The Intune Fundamentals Guy, API Edition: a daily walk through automating Intune with Microsoft Graph, from your first call and OData basics to safe changes at scale, least-privilege automation, and reporting leaders actually use.

Complete · 19 postsLatest: Day 19 →

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  1. 20 Days of Intune RBAC · Day 5Anatomy of a permissionEvery Intune permission is a category plus an action. A role is just a set of those pairs, and each category stands on its own. Plus the actions to watch closely.
  2. 20 Days of Intune RBAC · Day 4Role vs. assignmentA role defines what someone can do. An assignment decides who gets it and where it applies. Getting this split right is the foundation of everything else.
  3. 20 Days of Intune RBAC · Day 3The built-in rolesIntune has ten built-in RBAC roles, each designed for a specific job. How many are you actually using?
  4. 20 Days of Intune RBAC · Day 2Two permission planesIs Intune Administrator an Intune role? It isn't. It's a Microsoft Entra role, and that difference matters a lot.
  5. 20 Days of Intune RBAC · Day 1How many of your admins have only the permissions they need?If you had to stop and check, you're not alone. That's why this series exists. Here's the four-week roadmap and who it's for.