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Hey JohannesKristjansson, Thank you so much for the presentation!
Do you have a recommendation on best practices for managing SCCM "collections" in Intune? That's one of the final legs SCCM is standing on because Intune has no parity to manage collections/groups in the same manner. There are a few pieces to this puzzle, from the lack of advanced query creation in AAD groups to the lack of "hardware inventory" (minimal WMI information stored in the client record in Intune).
How are you doing it?
Cheers! 
kim oppalfens JohannesKristjansson
I'm familiar with Cloud Sync, and it works well. I really want to board the spirit train of "a pro to cloud-native is that you can get rid of SCCM," but I'm gathering that there is no good way to accomplish this in Intune, and maintaining an entire SCCM infrastructure just for the collections seems a bit unreasonable.
Thank you for the response.
We appreciate you. - I used to rely on collection sync to entra https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/clients/manage/collections/synchronize-collections-aad-group its very simple to setup. It enables you to sync any collection in configuration manager to a group in entra. which can then be targeted with any policy/app in intune. This bridges the feature parity gaps between intune and sccm really well, its robust and syncs rapidly. I have discontinued using this feature in my environment since we are planning to get rid of sccm next year, gotta practice what i preach 🙂
By just keeping CM around and setting up cloud collection sync. I am not in the habit of making changes just for the sake of changes. If you have CM, have the knowledge than by all means use something that you and a ton of other people understand.
When I came into this business their was a large push for buy vs build. People seem to have forgotten about that. And buy doesn't get much better than included in what you already pay for.
