The Windows Intune Connector and Subscription

Until this point, there have been references to a connector within Configuration Manager to integrate with Windows Intune, without fully explaining what this is. The Windows Intune connector is a ConfigMgr site system role that uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) port 443 to communicate to the Windows Intune cloud service. A Windows Intune subscription is created within ConfigMgr to define the mobile platforms ConfigMgr supports and the Microsoft Online Services cloud tenant to which to connect.

The subscription allows the organization to specify the mobile device configuration settings for the Windows Intune service. It is defined before the Intune connector is installed and contains the following items: ...

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