Intune Migration Guide: Modular Strategy with Camwood’s Fusion Framework

Introduction

Enterprises today must secure and manage a diverse range of endpoints, remote laptops, hybrid workstations, and corporate devices, while phasing out legacy management tools. Migrating to Microsoft Intune offers a unified, cloud-native modern device management (MDM) platform that simplifies onboarding, security, and ongoing optimisation. However, without a structured approach, organisations risk inconsistent configurations, compliance gaps, and operational disruption.

This guide delivers a comprehensive Intune migration roadmap built on Camwood’s proven Fusion Framework, covering initial assessment, Conditional Access policy configuration, seamless SCCM integration and retirement, and continuous endpoint optimisation. By following this modular strategy, IT teams gain clarity at every stage and ensure a smooth transition backed by real-time dashboards tracking compliance, deployment success, and cost savings.

Initial Assessment and Readiness Review

A successful Intune migration begins with a detailed assessment of your current environment. Camwood’s Fusion Framework prescribes a two-fold readiness review that inventories all endpoints and evaluates existing management workloads. Using Configuration Manager and Azure AD reporting, Camwood collects device metadata, OS versions, boot modes, agent health, and network connectivity. This identifies unmanaged or unsupported devices and highlights critical workloads currently handled by SCCM.

Alongside discovery, a policy gap analysis compares current security baselines with Intune’s native capabilities. Conditional Access requirements, disk encryption mandates, and regional compliance controls are documented to form the basis of policy templates. This readiness review culminates in a prioritised roadmap, aligning stakeholders and defining measurable success criteria.

Configuring Conditional Access Policies

Security is paramount during and after migration. Azure AD Conditional Access policies enable context-aware controls that only grant access when devices meet defined compliance criteria, leveraging Camwood’s Identity Management Services to enforce zero-trust standards across hybrid environments.

Camwood maps your organisational security requirements, such as MFA enforcement, device compliance states, and network location trust, into modular policy templates. Each is tested in a sandbox environment before production rollout, ensuring seamless implementation and minimal user disruption.

Seamless SCCM Integration and Retirement

Many enterprises still rely on SCCM for application deployment, patch management, and OS provisioning. Camwood enables co-management by enrolling SCCM clients into Intune, replicating software rings, and synchronising collections with Azure AD groups.

Workloads shift in waves: inventory and reporting first, then compliance, apps, and eventually OS updates. Distribution points are gradually retired, on-prem patching gives way to Windows Update for Business, and reporting consolidates in the Intune portal, improving your endpoint security posture through streamlined policy governance and telemetry. Stakeholder approvals and rollback plans ensure a safe and structured SCCM retirement.

Phased Migration Execution

Camwood structures migration into defined phases:

1. Pilot Enrolment: Validate provisioning with IT and security champions.
   
   
2. Departmental Roll-Out: Expand to business units with ongoing telemetry.
   
   
3. Corporate-Owned Devices: Use Autopilot and hybrid Azure AD join for seamless onboarding.
   
   
4. Remote & BYOD Devices: Enrol with tailored Conditional Access and compliance profiles.
   
   
5. SCCM Workload Transition: Shift application and patching tasks to Intune.
   
   
6. Legacy Retirement: Decommission SCCM servers and consolidate infrastructure.
   
   
7. Continuous Optimisation: Monitor KPIs and remediate proactively.

Each phase includes rollback triggers and real-time monitoring to minimise risk.

Continuous Endpoint Optimisation

Migration is not a one-off project. Camwood embeds continuous optimisation using telemetry from Intune, Azure Monitor, Defender for Endpoint, and the Automated Application Management solution to automate endpoint compliance and remediation cycles.

Dashboards surface actionable insights, such as frequent non-compliant device types or underperforming security policies, and recommend adjustments. Automation scripts resolve issues like outdated antivirus definitions or missing encryption in real time.

Real-Time Migration Dashboards

Camwood’s dashboards aggregate data from every migration stage into a single pane of glass. Executives see summaries of compliance, rollout progress, and SCCM decommissioning. IT teams access granular logs on policy drift, enrolment errors, and device posture. Exportable, audit-ready reports ensure transparency and streamline regulatory compliance.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What are the phases of Intune migration?

Intune migration follows a phased approach: Pilot enrolment, departmental roll-out, corporate device onboarding, remote and BYOD enrolment, SCCM workload shift, legacy decommissioning and continuous optimisation. Each phase includes entry/exit criteria and automated rollback triggers.

2. How to integrate Intune with your existing SCCM processes?

Enable co-management by enrolling SCCM clients into Intune and synchronizing SCCM collections with Azure AD groups. Migrate workloads, inventory, compliance, application deployment, gradually and retire distribution points once mature.

3. What benchmarks should I track?

Track enrolment success rate, policy compliance percentage, helpdesk ticket reduction, SCCM infrastructure cost savings and average time to onboard devices. These KPIs demonstrate migration progress and ROI.

4. How to plan gradual SCCM retirement after cut-over?

Establish a retirement plan that decommissions distribution points in waves, backs out on-premise patching in favour of Windows Update for Business and retires SCCM servers once all workloads shift. Include rollback scripts and stakeholder approvals at each wave.

5. How to optimise post-migration?

Leverage real-time telemetry from Intune and Defender for Endpoint to monitor compliance drift, automate remediations and schedule quarterly policy reviews. Use custom dashboards to identify hotspots and guide targeted improvements.