Microsoft Intune Suite and advanced capabilities

Answer: Microsoft Intune Suite is additive to Intune Plan 1 and includes Intune Plan 2 plus a collection of advanced endpoint-management and security capabilities; license the users or devices that benefit from those services.

Administrator playbook

Decide, verify, and document

Use the curated answer as a starting point, then prove the outcome against the target tenant or device.

What it means

Intune Plan 1 is the base service
Plan 2 and the Suite add capabilities rather than replacing Plan 1
Device-only licensing has important limits, including no app protection policies or Conditional Access

What to check next

List the exact advanced capabilities being deployed
Confirm the Plan 1 prerequisite and the add-on or suite entitlement for benefiting users
Separate user-affiliated devices from dedicated or shared device-only scenarios

Verify success

Confirm the SKU is assigned to every benefiting user or covered device.
Confirm the required service plan is enabled, not merely present in the tenant.
Re-test the exact feature after license propagation and record the result.

Escalate when

Microsoft documentation and the tenant SKU/service-plan view disagree.
The feature remains unavailable after assignment and normal propagation.
A purchase or renewal decision depends on contract-specific product terms.

Copyable admin briefAnswer, next checks, source, and review date

List subscribed SKUs

Get-MgSubscribedSku | Select-Object SkuPartNumber,ConsumedUnits,PrepaidUnits

Read-only. Confirms tenant inventory; it does not prove that a service plan is enabled for a specific user.

Evidence to preserve

Baseline: Microsoft Intune Plan 1
Advanced: Plan 2 or Intune Suite
Scope: Benefiting users or covered devices

Exact feature and workload
Users or devices benefiting from it
Assigned SKU and enabled service plans
Tenant region and purchase channel

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