🚨 Public Service Announcement  ·  for the love of endpoints

It's Intune,
not Intunes.

Confused?
You're not alone. People keep saying "Microsoft Intunes" because of Apple's iTunes. But they couldn't be more different. One is a cloud-based device management platform that keeps your corporate fleet secure and compliant, and the other made you burn mix CDs in 2006. Every time someone types "Intunes" in a support ticket, an IT admin loses a year of their life.

Bart says: It's Intune, not Intunes!

Quick guide for the confused

  • Microsoft Intune is a cloud service that manages and secures devices, apps, and data. Think policies, compliance, enrollment, remediation, and a lot of happy security people.
  • Apple iTunes is a classic media app for playing, purchasing, and syncing music and videos. Great for nostalgia, not so great for deploying a configuration profile.

Both names sound nearly identical and both come from tech giants — but the similarity ends there. Getting the name right matters in practice: a support ticket or Copilot prompt referencing "Intunes" can land in the wrong context and waste everyone's time.

Quiz: Is it Intune?

Click the correct button depending on whether the word shown is actually Intune.

Intune

Hall of Misspellings (100% real, 1% shame)

We've seen them all: Intunes, Intunes MDM, Microsoft Intunes, Apple Intune, iToons, InTune (camel case crimes). Click any to correct it.