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09/06/2026 11:29 pm
TL;DR: Transitioning from Group Policy and SCCM to Microsoft Intune and Entra ID creates policy, privilege, and user-experience gaps if controls are not translated cleanly, according to Netwrix. The migration challenge is less about tooling and more about preserving governance intent across endpoint management models.
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Questions worth separating out
Q: How should teams manage policy parity when moving from Group Policy to Intune?
A: Teams should treat policy parity as a control validation exercise, not a settings import task.
Q: Why do Intune migrations create privilege management gaps?
A: They create gaps because many enterprises built privilege workflows around legacy tools, local admin exceptions, and support-driven workarounds.
Practitioner guidance
- Map legacy policy intent before migration Document which Group Policy and SCCM settings exist to enforce security outcomes, not just configuration values.
- Identify privilege paths that depend on local admin assumptions Review install rights, software distribution workflows, and temporary elevation paths that were embedded in legacy endpoint operations.
- Test merged policies against real device cohorts Validate policy parity on representative laptops, remote devices, and exception-heavy fleets before broad rollout.
What to expect at the briefing
Netwrix's full on-demand webinar covers the operational detail this post intentionally leaves for the source:
- A practical walkthrough of consolidating and merging legacy GPOs for Intune migrations.
- Details on preserving 100% policy parity between Microsoft Intune and Group Policy.
- Guidance on handling the security limitations of Intune's Endpoint Privilege Management add-on.
- Integration notes for combining Endpoint Policy Manager with Netwrix Auditor and Netwrix Privilege Secure.
👉 Watch Netwrix's on-demand webinar on Intune migration and policy parity →
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10/06/2026 1:49 am
Policy migration is an identity governance problem, not just an endpoint tooling change. When organisations move from Group Policy and SCCM to Intune and Entra ID, they are re-expressing control intent across a different enforcement model. That means access, privilege, and device posture decisions must be revalidated, not assumed to survive the move. Practitioners should treat migration as a control redesign exercise, not a lift-and-shift of endpoint administration.
A few things that frame the scale:
- 79% of organisations have experienced secrets leaks, with 77% of these incidents resulting in tangible damage, according to Ultimate Guide to NHIs.
- 96% of organisations store secrets outside of secrets managers in vulnerable locations including code, config files, and CI/CD tools.
A question worth separating out:
Q: How should security teams decide when to retire SCCM or Group Policy controls?
A: Teams should retire legacy controls only after they have proven that Intune reproduces the required security outcome for each major device cohort. If a setting depends on local context, legacy scripting, or unsupported privilege behaviour, keep it until a replacement is validated and monitored.
👉 Read our full editorial: Intune migration gaps expose endpoint policy and privilege debt
