Modern Workplace Consultant
Modern Workplace engineering, built on strong infrastructure foundations.
I'm Darren Grocott, a Modern Workplace Consultant specialising in Microsoft endpoint management, identity, security and automation.
I work across Microsoft Intune, MECM/SCCM, Windows Autopilot, Entra ID and the wider Microsoft ecosystem, helping organisations modernise the way they manage, secure and support their endpoint estates.
About
More than endpoint management
Modern Workplace is about more than configuring Intune.
My background spans infrastructure, servers, networking, virtualisation and enterprise endpoint management. That foundation gives me an understanding of the systems surrounding the endpoint — identity, certificates, networking, security and the legacy infrastructure that organisations often need to transition away from.
Over more than ten years in IT, I've progressed from infrastructure engineering through enterprise endpoint management and senior engineering into Modern Workplace consulting.
Today, I use that experience to help customers solve the practical problems involved in moving towards modern, cloud-managed environments.
Capabilities
What I work with
Endpoint Management
Microsoft Intune, MECM/SCCM, Windows Autopilot, co-management, Windows 10/11, application deployment, configuration management, compliance and remediation.
Identity & Security
Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, compliance-based device trust, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, PKI and certificate services.
Automation
PowerShell tooling for discovery, migration and operational tasks, together with reusable Intune Remediations designed to solve security and configuration requirements at scale.
Modernisation
SCCM-to-Intune migration, cloud-native endpoint transformation, Autopilot, Entra Join and the transition from traditional infrastructure towards Modern Workplace services.
Experience
Experience at scale
My career has taken me through internal IT, education technology, NHS shared services, managed services and consulting.
Within the NHS, I worked in an environment supporting more than 16,000 endpoints and 20,000 users, developing from infrastructure engineering into enterprise endpoint management.
I later became Technical Lead for a portfolio of customers within an MSP environment, assessing customer environments and providing technical recommendations to IT teams, directors and other stakeholders.
Today, as a Modern Workplace Consultant, I deliver customer projects spanning SCCM infrastructure, SCCM-to-Intune migration, Cloud PKI, Conditional Access, endpoint security and cloud-native transformation.
Approach
How I approach engineering
I like to understand why something works, not simply which setting makes it work.
Modern endpoint management increasingly sits at the intersection of identity, security, networking, certificates, automation and user experience. When something fails, the answer isn't always in Intune — and understanding the systems around it often makes the difference.
That infrastructure background continues to shape the way I approach Modern Workplace engineering: understand the environment, identify the dependencies, automate where it makes sense, and build solutions that can be supported after the project is finished.
Work
Selected work
Enterprise endpoint modernisation
Building a resilient SCCM platform and introducing Intune co-management across an NHS shared-service estate of approximately 16,000 endpoints.
Read the case study →Automated Adobe patching
Using SCCM inventory, an existing SCORCH integration, Group Policy and Adobe Remote Update Manager to turn recurring vulnerabilities into scheduled centralised updates.
Read the case study →Modern Workplace transformation
Contributing to the assessment and design of cloud-first environments using Intune, Autopilot, Entra ID and Microsoft 365, balancing modernisation with existing infrastructure and business requirements.
Development
Completed certifications
I continue to deepen my knowledge across the Microsoft ecosystem while building on practical experience in Intune, MECM, Entra ID and PowerShell.
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals
Contact
Let's connect
I'm interested in Modern Workplace opportunities combining hands-on engineering with technical ownership, project delivery and continued development.