

These policies also allow organizations to cover their specific compliance scenarios.Īccording to Microsoft, IT admins can also use Endpoint Manager to set Azure AD Conditional Access policies targeted at Linux devices, just like other platforms.

To help ensure devices are compliant and help protect company resources, custom compliance policies in Endpoint Manager will enable IT admins to write their own Bash scripts to evaluate attributes of the Linux endpoints most important to the organization.

The company also announced a new Microsoft Teams progressive web app for Linux desktops that will be available in the coming months that can be managed and secured via Intune and Azure AD. This adds Linux devices to Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices that IT admins can manage and better secure by ensuring that only compliant devices access company resources.Īccording to Microsoft, bringing Linux devices into the fold and giving IT the ability to manage and protect those endpoints can help organizations achieve a zero trust security model. The new capabilities come with the October release of Intune, which will allow organizations to include Linux desktops as endpoints in their device management and security workloads. Microsoft is introducing the general availability of Linux desktop management in Microsoft Intune, as part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, to bring support for device registration, endpoint management and secure web access to Microsoft 365 and Azure resources for Linux Ubuntu LTS.
