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09/06/2026 11:32 pm
TL;DR: Migrating from Group Policy and SCCM to Microsoft Intune and Entra ID can leave policy gaps, uneven granularity, and end-user friction if teams do not reconcile legacy controls, according to Netwrix. The real issue is not migration mechanics alone, but whether endpoint governance remains consistent enough to preserve privilege boundaries and security intent.
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Questions worth separating out
A: Treat the migration as a control translation exercise.
Q: Why do Intune migrations often expose privilege management problems?
A: Because many legacy environments depended on broad local admin access to make endpoint support workable.
Practitioner guidance
- Map legacy policy equivalence before migration Build a control-by-control mapping between Group Policy, SCCM, and Intune settings so teams can prove security intent survives the move.
- Redesign privilege elevation paths Replace broad local administrator patterns with task-scoped elevation flows that can be reviewed and revoked.
- Trace device and identity dependencies Document which device policies depend on which identity assignments, roles, and trust signals so offboarding or role changes do not leave stale access paths behind.
What to expect at the briefing
Netwrix's full webinar covers the operational detail this post intentionally leaves for the source:
- How Endpoint Policy Manager consolidates legacy GPOs for migration planning and policy translation.
- How the platform claims to maintain 100% policy parity between Microsoft Intune and Group Policy in practical deployment scenarios.
- How the webinar addresses security limitations in Intune's Endpoint Privilege Management add-on.
- How the source relates the migration path to Netwrix Auditor and Netwrix Privilege Secure in an endpoint governance stack.
👉 Watch Netwrix's on-demand webinar on migrating from Group Policy and SCCM to Intune →
Intune migration gaps: what IAM teams need to account for?
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10/06/2026 1:54 am
Endpoint migration is an identity governance problem, not a configuration exercise. Moving from Group Policy and SCCM to Intune and Entra ID changes how access intent is expressed, enforced, and reviewed across endpoints. If policy parity is not proven, the organisation is not modernising control, it is changing where control failure will appear. Practitioners should treat the migration as a governance redesign with device identities, admin rights, and policy scope all in view.
A few things that frame the scale:
- 85% of organisations lack full visibility into third-party vendors connected via OAuth apps, according to The State of Non-Human Identity Security.
- This visibility gap is not limited to OAuth. It reflects a broader pattern where identity relationships outpace governance review, especially when control planes change faster than entitlement mapping.
A question worth separating out:
Q: Should organisations retire legacy endpoint tools before Intune controls are fully validated?
A: No. Legacy tools should remain in place until the organisation has verified that new controls reproduce the same security outcomes and operational behaviour. Retiring the old platform too early can remove a working control before the replacement has been proven under real workload conditions.
👉 Read our full editorial: Intune migration gaps expose governance limits in endpoint management
