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Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management (formerly System Center Configuration Manager) provides comprehensive management of devices and applications across an enterprise. It enables IT administrators to manage PCs, servers, and mobile devices, deploy software, manage compliance, and protect data.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management the way a machine reads it — 96 machine-readable artifacts across 25 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management scores 71.5/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 71.5/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 17.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 25

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Configuration Manager PowerShell Cmdlets

PowerShell module for Configuration Manager automation and scripting, providing over 1100 cmdlets for all major management tasks including device collections, software deploymen...

Configuration Manager SDK

Software Development Kit for extending and integrating with Configuration Manager, including WMI providers, class schemas, and programming interfaces for custom solutions.

Intune App SDK

SDKs for iOS and Android that enable mobile apps to support Intune app protection policies. Allows developers to integrate mobile application management features into line-of-bu...

Intune App Wrapping Tool

Command-line tools for iOS and Android that enable existing line-of-business apps to be managed by Intune app protection policies without requiring source code changes.

Intune PowerShell SDK

PowerShell module providing native cmdlet support for invoking the Microsoft Intune Graph API. Enables IT administrators to automate device management, app deployment, and compl...

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Applications API

Manage Configuration Manager applications.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Compliance API

Manage compliance baselines and settings.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Dates API

Date dimension for time-based reporting.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Deployments API

View and manage application deployments.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Device Actions API

Remote device actions such as wipe, retire, sync, and lock.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Export Jobs API

Manage asynchronous report export jobs. Create export jobs, poll for completion, and download exported report files.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Policies API

Policy records and compliance activities.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Reports API

Retrieve inline Intune reports for device compliance, configuration policy status, and historical data.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Scripts API

Manage and execute PowerShell scripts.

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Postman Collections 4

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Arazzo Workflows 18

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management ConfigMgr Create Application

Create a Configuration Manager application and confirm it within the application inventory.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management ConfigMgr Create Collection and Review Deployments

Create a Configuration Manager collection, read it back, and review application deployments targeting collections.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management ConfigMgr Device Lookup

Find a Configuration Manager device by name and read its full record and discovered system.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management ConfigMgr Update Compliance Review

Review pending software updates, configuration baseline assignments, and target collections.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Create and Assign Compliance Policy

Create a device compliance policy in Intune and assign it to a target group.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Create and Assign Device Configuration

Create a device configuration profile in Intune and assign it to a target group.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Decommission Device

Confirm a managed device, factory wipe it, and remove it from Intune.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Deploy Mobile App

Create a mobile app in Intune, assign it to a group, and inspect its install status.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Device Compliance Triage

Inspect a managed device and branch on its compliance state to either sync or retire it.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Lost Device Lockdown

Locate a managed device, remotely lock it, and reset its passcode.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Non-Compliance Report Drilldown

Pull the device, policy, and setting non-compliance reports inline in one pass.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Report Export Job

Create an Intune report export job, poll it, and capture the download URL when complete.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Retire Unpublished App

Inspect a mobile app and delete it only when it is still unpublished.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Tenant Compliance Posture

Read the tenant compliance summary and, when devices are non-compliant, enumerate them.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Update and Reassign Compliance Policy

Read an existing compliance policy, update its metadata, and reassign it to a group.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management User Device Inventory

List a user's Azure AD owned devices and correlate them with their Intune managed devices.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Data Warehouse App Install Analytics

Correlate Data Warehouse application inventory with install statuses and user-device associations.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Data Warehouse Policy Compliance Analytics

Correlate Data Warehouse policies with their device activity and the device population.

ARAZZO

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Context

0 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

JSON Schema 34

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Mobile Application

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Device Compliance Policy

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Device Configuration Profile

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DateEntity

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Managed Device

51 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeviceCompliancePolicy

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeviceCompliancePolicyAssignment

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeviceConfiguration

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeviceConfigurationAssignment

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeviceManagementExportJob

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeviceManagementExportJobCreate

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DevicePropertyHistory

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IntuneManagementExtension

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagedDevice

37 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MobileApp

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MobileAppAssignment

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MobileAppInstallStatus

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ODataError

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Policy

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PolicyDeviceActivity

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PolicyUserActivity

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReportRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReportResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SMS_Application

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SMS_ApplicationDeployment

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SMS_Collection

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SMS_Device

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SMS_Package

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SMS_R_System

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SMS_Site

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SMS_SoftwareUpdate

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SMS_TaskSequence

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserDeviceAssociation

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Scopes

7 scopes · authorizationCode

7 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management Agentic Access

71 operations · 31 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

71 operations · 31 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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