Microsoft Intune provides a strong foundation for modern endpoint management. But in complex environments, many organisations run into limitations around control, visibility, and execution.
Applications and settings take hours to appear after assignment
Loss of precision compared to Group Policy
More and more management depends on scripts and workarounds
No real-time control or feedback
For many organisations, this means more complexity, more support tickets and less control.
Delivering applications through Intune is often slower than expected. There can be a delay of one to five hours between assigning an application and it actually becoming available on the endpoint. This is especially painful for new starters, urgent software updates or critical applications that users need immediately. Many IT teams end up relying on “force sync” as a standard workaround, but that only highlights the underlying limitation.
After moving from traditional Active Directory to Entra ID and Intune, organisations often lose access to the functionality previously delivered through Group Policy Preferences. Drive mappings, printer connections, shortcuts, registry changes, file copies and scheduled tasks no longer happen automatically. Intune has no direct replacement for this, so IT teams are forced to rebuild these functions with scripts and manual workarounds.
Intune depends heavily on PowerShell scripts, ADMX templates and custom packaging for anything beyond basic endpoint management. Complex Win32 applications often require silent install commands, detection scripts and pre- or post-install actions. As more scripts are added, the environment becomes harder to manage, troubleshoot and maintain. Over time, this creates a growing dependency on a small number of specialists who understand how everything fits together.
When an application fails to install or a policy does not apply, it can be difficult to understand what went wrong. Troubleshooting often means jumping between multiple log files, the Intune portal and endpoint logs, while dealing with unclear error messages and inconsistent reporting. There is no single, real-time view of what is happening on the user’s device, making support slower and increasing the number of helpdesk calls.
App Delivery
GPOs
Scripting
Monitoring
Liquidware enriches Intune with FlexApp and ProfileUnity, enhancing Intune’s capabilities to deliver a seamless, enterprise-ready Windows experience. With ProfileUnity and FlexApp, organisations can:
Deliver applications instantly, without waiting for Intune sync cycles
Restore functionality previously handled by GPOs and logon scripts
Simplify the management of complex and legacy applications
Apply user settings and policies in real time, based on user, device or location
Reduce scripting, administrative overhead and troubleshooting time
The result: more control, a better user experience and less complexity across hybrid environments.
As Insights and Remediation are key to stay on top of your environment, Liquidware additionally offers organizations grip with StratusphereUX and CommandCTRL:
DEX insights, with live dashboards and the ability to drill down to the device level
Up to real-time insights into everything happening on the device
Powerful remediation and Remote Control options
Able to play back the exact state of the system at the time an issue arose, giving excellent insight into what happened
In this solution brief, you’ll discover:
“For organisations evaluating application management solutions, I highly recommend FlexApp. I was genuinely surprised by how easy it was. Recently, we needed to update a package. We just upgraded it, published it in FlexApp and within 20 minutes it was ‘next-next-finished’ Historically, it would have cost much more time, care and consideration. FlexApp is just easy, intuitive, and it works.”
Robert Harwood
Infrastructure specialist, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead“Since we were already using FlexApp, we started testing ProfileUnity first — and we were immediately impressed. Some organisations try to configure everything through Intune, but that often doesn’t fully work in practice. For example, we want changes to be available to users straight away, without relying on Microsoft Intune’s fluctuating synchronisation cycles, where users sometimes have to wait two hours or more. In addition, within the municipality we have a wide range of use cases that require an additional solution.”
Wim Hofman
IT Solution Architect Workplace & Security, Gemeente Haarlemmermeer"We did look at app layering from other vendors, but there we saw several limitations. For example, we couldn’t offer applications on-demand, or they all had to be in the Citrix image. That way you get ‘image rot’ and applications start to conflict with each other. With FlexApp, applications are actually delivered as a separate layer and not ‘baked into’ somewhere. Moreover, App-V is going to disappear, and we were looking for a platform-independent alternative.”
Martijn Konings
Senior System and NetworkAdministrator, Waterschap Brabantse Delta“The goal of our IT department is to fully support healthcare professionals in their daily work, taking into account the persona-based needs of each end user. This means moving away from the traditional ‘one size fits all’ approach and providing every user type with a tailored workspace. Achieving this was only possible with an efficient management solution — which we found in Liquidware.”
Frank Halder
Infrastructure Manager, Zuyderland©2025 Liquidware Labs, Inc. All rights reserved
