The Critical Importance of Intune and Device Migration in Microsoft Tenant-to-Tenant Projects: Cloudiway’s Advanced Approach

Tenant-to-tenant migration in Microsoft 365 is a high-stakes operation—whether triggered by mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, or regulatory demands. Most organizations know to prioritize the migration of emails, files, SharePoint sites, and Teams content. But an often-overlooked, immensely complex aspect is the migration of Intune policies and managed devices—the backbone of endpoint security, compliance, and user productivity in the modern workplace.

Why Intune and Device Migration Is Essential

More Than Data: The Real Risks of Neglecting Intune

Intune governs device security, compliance, application deployments, and conditional access across every laptop, tablet, and mobile device within your organization. Skipping Intune migration means:

• Immediate regulatory and security risks: Without migrated policies and device management, previously protected devices become vulnerable, leading to compliance failures, audit issues, and increased exposure to cyber threats.
• Manual recovery workload: IT teams must manually rebuild every configuration—risking error, inconsistencies, and delays.
• Operational disruptions: Users may lose access to necessary resources. Applications could fail to install or update. Device behaviors could change overnight, leading to spikes in support tickets and business downtime.

The Complexity of Intune and Device Migration

Migrating Intune settings and devices is much harder than just transferring files. Why?

• Complex Policy Structures: Organizations often work with a diverse portfolio of Intune policies covering device configurations, compliance, app deployment, conditional access, and more.
• Policy Dependencies: Intune policies interact with each other and with external systems such as identity providers. These dependencies must be carefully mapped and replicated in the destination tenant.
• Device Re-enrollment: Microsoft does not offer a native way to simply "transfer" devices between Azure AD tenants. Each device must be unenrolled from the source, then re-enrolled in the destination—while preserving the user profile and minimizing disruption.
• Office Licensing and Data Synchronization: Office licenses need to be re-assigned. OneDrive agents must be rebuilt to sync with the new tenant. These are not automatic processes, requiring careful orchestration to prevent data loss and licensing issues.
• Custom Configurations and Regional Differences: Policy features, app deployments, and security settings often differ between tenants—sometimes depending on Microsoft 365 licensing or regulatory region.

How Cloudiway Delivers Seamless Intune and Device Migration

Cloudiway is the leader in tenant-to-tenant Intune policy and device migration. Their suite of tools and methodologies are designed for the most demanding enterprise transitions.

Cloudiway’s Features and Benefits

1. Comprehensive Discovery and Policy Replication

• The platform performs a thorough inventory of all existing Intune configurations (device compliance, configuration profiles, app deployments, assignments) in the source tenant.
• Cloudiway automatically replicates those policies in the target tenant, preserving complex dependencies and assignments to user and device groups.
• Delta passes allow only new or modified settings to be migrated during re-runs, eliminating risk of duplication.

2. Automated Device Transition

• Azure AD joined and registered devices are disjoined from the source tenant and smoothly enrolled in the target tenant through agent-based automation.
• The agent manages Office license removal and reassignment, OneDrive resynchronization, Windows user profile migration, and Outlook reconfiguration—all with minimal user intervention.
• Devices can be migrated in batches or at scheduled times, minimizing downtime and optimizing resource usage.

3. Policy Mapping and Validation

• Cloudiway’s mapping tables link source and target groups accurately, reporting broken or missing assignments for prompt resolution.
• Manual corrections can be made or the platform can auto-provision missing groups, ensuring policy coverage remains intact.

4. Centralized Management and Scheduling

• Migration progress is tracked via a centralized dashboard, offering complete visibility and control.
• Flexible scheduling enables staged or bulk migrations to accommodate business needs and time zones.

5. Proven Security and Compliance

• Cloudiway’s solution runs on secure Azure infrastructure, with SSPA (Supplier Security & Privacy Assurance) certification.
• The platform is offered as SaaS, with dedicated instances for organizations requiring additional data isolation and control.
• Every migrated policy and device is validated for security and compliance, with post-migration auditing available.

6. End-to-End Coverage: What Gets Migrated?

Intune settings and policies:

• Device clean-up rules
• Device compliance and configuration policies
• Notifications, scripts, update rings (Windows, iOS, macOS)
• Conditional access policies, policy sets, device categories, filters

Endpoint security:

• Antivirus, encryption, firewall, endpoint detection
• Attack surface reduction, privilege management, account protection

Applications and assignments:

• All managed apps, eBooks, app categories
• App protection and configuration policies, iOS provisioning

Laptop profiles and user experience:

• OneDrive, Office, Outlook profiles, user configuration

7. Ease of Use & Technical Expertise

• No deep technical expertise required—Cloudiway manages the complexity through automated workflows and guided processes.
• Support resources, knowledge base, and expert troubleshooting available throughout the project.

The Migration Process at a Glance

Cloudiway’s migration is orchestrated in five structured steps:

1. Connector Setup for source and target tenants.
2. Discovery to identify all source policies and devices.
3. Selection of policies, profiles, and devices to migrate.
4. Mapping for groups and user assignments, with automated error reporting.
5. Migration Execution via scheduled jobs, tracked in real time.

Support and knowledge resources are embedded to quickly resolve issues and maintain momentum.

Why Cloudiway Is the Gold Standard for Intune Tenant Migration

• Decades of migration expertise with proven success in large-scale, multi-national projects
• Automation-first approach reduces manual labor and error rates
• Security and compliance certified, built for enterprise governance requirements
• Flexible licensing, designed to fit projects of any scale
• Robust support and documentation for every stage of migration

Conclusion

Intune and device migration is more than a technical footnote—it’s a strategic business necessity. Only by migrating policies, configurations, licenses, and endpoints can organizations protect themselves from compliance failures, security breaches, and costly business interruptions.

Cloudiway’s end-to-end platform makes the entire process not only possible but practical and seamless for organizations of any size. With Cloudiway, tenant-to-tenant migration becomes an opportunity for business continuity, enhanced security, and future-ready device management.

Ready to migrate securely? Choose Cloudiway for all your Intune and device migration needs—your business resilience depends on it.

1. https://cloudiway.com/documentation/migrate-intune-between-tenants/
2. https://cloudiway.com/solutions/intune-migration/