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Did you know this about Nerdio + Microsoft Intune?

Co-authored by Christiaan Brinkhoff and Toby Skerritt

After meeting with dozens of customers over the last eight weeks, one thing became clear: We offer great benefits for Microsoft Intune that not everyone is aware of.  

At Nerdio, we've been heads down building what I'd describe as the "missing layer" on top of Intune. Not a replacement—an amplifier. Here are the things that honestly surprised me most when I started looking at the full comparison.

 

  1. Policy backup happens automatically—no more JSON exports

With native Intune, protecting your policy configuration means manually exporting JSON. Easy to forget. Easy to lose. 

Nerdio Manager automatically backs up your policies and gives you a one-click restore. It sounds simple, but when something breaks at 2:00 am, you'll know exactly why this matters.

   

  1. Conflict detection is built in

Conflicting policies silently failing on devices is one of the most painful debugging experiences in Intune. Nerdio proactively flags conflicting policies across your entire environment. Before they become incidents. 


 

  1. Script versioning and backup: a genuine game changer (new in 8.0)

This one deserves more attention than it gets. Once you upload a script to native Intune, it's essentially a black box—you can't review the content, track changes, or roll back. There's no versioning, no history, no change management. 

Nerdio Manager changes that completely. You can now edit, back up, compare versions, and restore platform scripts and their assignments. For any team with proper change management processes, this closes a gap that has caused real incidents.

 

  1. Enhanced task sequencing & automation—not just PowerShell workarounds 

Intune's built-in automation is minimal. For anything beyond basics, you're writing PowerShell or standing up Logic Apps. 

Nerdio brings auto-scale, auto-reimage, and scheduled actions. And with scripted sequences, you can chain together complex, multi-step workflows—scripts, policy changes, app installs, reboots—all from a single UI and without custom tooling. 


 

  1. CIS compliance baselines, ready to go

Building CIS compliance templates manually or importing them from external sources is time-consuming and error-prone. Nerdio ships with Level 1 CIS compliance templates built in. 

For any organization dealing with security audits or regulated industries, this alone is a meaningful time saver.

 

  1. Cost awareness: something Intune doesn't touch 

This one is underrated. Intune has no native cost planning capabilities. For MSPs and enterprise IT teams managing cloud desktops at scale, that's a real gap. 

Nerdio includes built-in cost estimation and optimization tools, so you can make infrastructure decisions with financial visibility attached. 


 

  1. A single pane of glass for W365, AVD, and physical endpoints

This one is big. Native Intune is limited to Intune-enrolled devices. If you're managing a mixed environment—Cloud PCs, AVD (Hybrid) session hosts, and physical endpoints— you're jumping between portals. 

Nerdio gives you single-pane management across your entire estate. One place. One workflow. 

 

The bottom line 

Intune is not going away—nor should it. But for teams managing cloud desktops at any real scale, the native experience has limits that add up fast: in time, in risk, and in operational complexity. 

Nerdio + Intune is what modern endpoint management should look like.