Are you Intune Ready?
Six quick questions about your devices and licensing — get a personalized recommendation in about a minute. No obligation.
Five of the six questions set this score. It narrows as you answer them.
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What this assessment is
The Intune Readiness Assessment is a free, six-question self-assessment for small businesses. It asks about your device count, your Microsoft 365 licensing, how your devices are managed today, whether Conditional Access is in place, how personal devices are handled, and whether your team can administer Intune after setup. It returns two independent results: a 0–100 readiness score placing your environment in one of four maturity bands, and a recommended service tier based on device count. It runs entirely in your browser, connects to no Microsoft tenant, and reads nothing from your environment — every answer is self-reported.
Common questions about the Intune readiness assessment
What does it cost to set up Intune for a small business?
Every engagement is quoted as one fixed price after a free consultation, based on device count and the complexity of what's already in place — no hourly meter and no surprise invoices for anything in the agreed scope. The assessment recommends a tier, not a price: it tells you which scope of work fits your environment, and the quote follows from that. For what actually drives the number, see how much it costs to set up Intune for a small business.
Do I need someone to set up Intune, or can I do it myself?
You can do it yourself, and some businesses should. Intune is included in your licensing and nothing stops an admin from configuring it. What people usually underestimate is the order of operations — enrollment, compliance policies, and Conditional Access interact, and getting them out of sequence tends to produce a tenant that looks configured but locks the wrong people out. If your assessment result says someone on your team can take over administration after setup, doing it yourself is realistic. If it says you'd need training first, the gap is usually knowing what to build rather than how to click through it.
Is Intune the same thing as MDM?
Mobile device management is one of the things Intune does, not the whole of it. MDM is the enrollment-and-policy layer that gets a device under management. Intune also covers application management on devices you don't own, compliance policies that feed Conditional Access, and configuration profiles that set a device up consistently from first boot. For a small business the practical difference is that an MDM product manages devices, while Intune is the piece that decides whether a device is allowed to reach company data at all.
What does the readiness assessment actually evaluate?
Six things, all self-reported. Your device count determines the recommended tier. Five further answers feed the readiness score: how your devices are managed today, which Microsoft 365 plan you're on, whether Conditional Access policies are in place, how personal devices used for work are handled, and whether someone on your team could administer Intune after setup. Those five are weighted, with current management state carrying the most weight and licensing and Conditional Access next. The assessment does not inspect your tenant — it evaluates the answers you give it.
What does my Intune readiness score mean?
The score is a maturity measure out of 100, built from five weighted answers about your current setup and security posture. It places you in one of four bands: Needs Attention at 40 or below, Developing from 41 to 70, Well Managed from 71 to 90, and Operational Excellence above 90. The bands describe how much of a mature Intune environment you already have in place — not how urgently you need help, and not what an engagement would cost. A high score means most of the foundation exists; a low one means more of it has to be built.
How is my recommended tier chosen?
By device count alone. Under 15 devices maps to Starter, 15 to 50 maps to Growing Team, and more than 50 maps to Full Fleet. The tier describes the scope of work an environment of that size needs, not its price and not its condition — a business with well-managed devices and one with nothing configured will get the same tier if they have the same number of devices. What each tier includes is set out in what's included at each Intune service tier.
Why is my recommended tier based on device count when my readiness score isn't?
Because they measure two different things. The tier is a scope-of-work recommendation, and the size of the job tracks device count more than anything else — so tier is determined by device count alone. The readiness score is a separate maturity measure, built from five other answers: how your devices are managed today, your Microsoft 365 licensing, whether Conditional Access is in place, how personal devices are handled, and whether someone on your team can administer Intune after setup. A 15-device business can score well and still land in Starter; a 60-device business can score poorly and still land in Full Fleet. The two results are independent by design, and neither one adjusts the other.
How long does the assessment take, and do I need to prepare anything?
Six multiple-choice questions, about a minute, and no preparation. You don't need admin access, a tenant ID, or a device inventory in front of you — every question has a "not sure" or approximate option precisely because most people answering it don't have those numbers to hand. Answering "not sure" on licensing or Conditional Access doesn't invalidate the result; it scores lower on those inputs and the recommendation accounts for it.
What happens after I complete the assessment?
Your readiness score, maturity band, tier recommendation, and a set of notes specific to your answers appear immediately on the results screen — there's nothing to wait for and nothing to unlock. If you want the longer write-up, entering an email address downloads the Intune Readiness Playbook, which explains what your score means and covers the twelve pillars of a mature Intune environment. Booking a consultation is optional and separate; no one is contacted automatically because they took the assessment.
Does the assessment connect to my Microsoft 365 tenant?
No, and it can't. There's no sign-in step, no OAuth consent screen, and no permission grant anywhere in the flow — the assessment has no route into your tenant even if you wanted to give it one. The scoring runs as JavaScript in your own browser against the answers you selected, so your result is calculated on your machine rather than looked up from your environment. That also means the assessment can't catch a misconfiguration you don't already know about: it's a structured way to think about readiness, not a scan.
Is a "Needs Attention" score bad?
No — in my experience it's the most common starting point for a business that already owns Intune and has never configured it. The score measures where your environment is today, not whether anything has gone wrong. Most businesses I see at this band are already paying for Intune inside a Microsoft 365 plan and simply haven't turned it on — a configuration gap, not a failure. More on the experience behind this assessment.
We only have about a dozen devices. Is Intune really worth setting up?
Usually yes, and the reason has little to do with device count. A twelve-person business running unmanaged laptops has the same exposure as a large one when a device is lost or someone leaves — the difference is that it has no way to revoke access to what's on that machine. What changes at small scale is scope, not need, which is why the assessment maps under-15 environments to Starter: tenant setup, enrollment, and baseline compliance, without the multi-location and advanced policy work larger fleets require. The cases where I'd say it isn't worth it are narrower than people expect — usually businesses with no company-owned devices at all. Background on where that judgment comes from is on the credentials page.