Acceptable Use Policy for Microsoft Intune

This Acceptable Use Policy for Microsoft Intune (“Policy”) identifies activities that you and your organization are prohibited from engaging in when using Intune or any subsequent release of Intune ("Service") which link to this Policy.

Please report violations of this Policy to Intune Support. When reporting by email, please include the words "Acceptable Use Policy" in the subject.

When using this Service, you may not:

  • Use the Service in a way that is against applicable law. Including:

    • Illegal activity such as child pornography; gambling; piracy; violating copyright, trademark or other intellectual property laws.

    • Uploading and distributing unlicensed licensed software.

    • Accessing or authorizing anyone to access the service from an embargoed country.

    • Threatening, stalking, defaming, defrauding, degrading, victimizing or intimidating anyone for any reason.

    • Invading anyone's privacy by attempting to harvest, collect, store, or publish private or personally identifiable information, such as passwords, account information, credit card numbers, addresses, or other contact information without their knowledge and consent.

  • Use the Service in a way that could harm them or impair anyone else's use of them. Including:

    • Any attempt to gain unauthorized access to a Service, acting to deny others access to a Service, or authorizing any third party to access or use the Services on your behalf (such as anyone without a license or revealing to anyone your username and password).

    • Use the Service to try to gain unauthorized access to any other service, data, account or network by any means.

    • Use any automated process or service to access or use the Service such as a BOT, a spider or periodic caching of information stored by Microsoft.

    • Intending to harm or exploit minors in any way, or collecting personally identifiable information of any minor.

    • Transmitting content that harms or disrupts, or intends to harm or disrupt, another user's device or would allow you or others to illegally access software or bypass security on devices, Web sites, or servers, including but not limited to spamming.

  • Falsify any email header information or in any way misrepresent your identity.

    • Including misrepresenting the source of anything you post or upload or impersonating another individual or entity, such as with "spoofing."

  • Use the Service to transmit, distribute, or deliver any unsolicited bulk or unsolicited commercial e-mail (i.e., spam).

    • Except with regard to spam that you are directing to a Microsoft-provided e-mail spam filter.

  • Remove, modify, or tamper with any regulatory or legal notice or link that is incorporated into the Service.

    • Including providing or creating links to external sites that violate this Acceptable use policy or other legal agreements Microsoft provides.

    • As well as any use of the Service to distribute any offering or link designed to violate these terms (e.g., enable sending of spam, enable denial of service attacks, etc.)

Additionally:

  • Microsoft is not responsible for the content of any user-created posting, listing or message. The decision to view content or engage with others is yours. We advise you to use your judgment.

  • You are responsible for protecting your computer against interference, spyware or viruses that may be encountered for downloaded items from the service. This Service can help you secure your computers from malware and virus threats with Intune Endpoint Protection. But, even if you decide not to use this Service’s endpoint protection, we always recommend that you install a virus protection program on your computer and keep it up to date.

  • Information you provide or upload to the Services may be stored outside of the country in which you reside.

Your use of any Service administered through this site is governed by the terms and conditions of the agreement(s) under which you purchased the Service. You can obtain a copy of your agreement(s) by contacting Intune Support.

If Microsoft believes that unauthorized or improper use is being made of the Service, it may, without notice and at its sole discretion, take such action as it deems appropriate, including blocking messages from a particular internet domain, mail server or IP address. Violation of this Policy can lead to termination of a customer's account.

Customers who (1) participate in the Services’ “Communities” for support; or (2) obtain third level domain names to be used with the Service, are additionally subject to the restrictions in the Code of Conduct.

Microsoft reserves the right to amend or change the Policy of any service at any time without notice. We encourage you to periodically review these guidelines to ensure you are in compliance.

Nothing in this policy is intended to grant any rights in the Service. Failure to enforce this Policy in every instance does not amount to a waiver of Microsoft's rights.