Coming early in 2020 is the Microsoft Endpoint Manager Admin Center, a new web console for managing all your devices - even Macs managed via Jamf integrated with Intune.
“We would be talking to customers and asking them why they hadn’t turned on co-management and attached Intune to Config Manager, and it was remarkable how often we would hear ‘well, l we don’t know if we’re licenced for it’,” Anderson said.īut Microsoft Endpoint Manager is more than just a new name for something organisations might already have without realising it. If you want to manage non-Windows devices via Microsoft Endpoint Manager you do still need a separate Intune licence (which you can get on its own, as part of the Enterprise Mobility & Security licence or as part of a Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 licence). Licensing is also much clearer: if you already have Config Manager licences, they now cover co-managing Windows devices through Intune (or rather, through the cloud service in Microsoft Endpoint Manager) to get features like analytics, conditional access and management beyond the firewall, without needing any extra licences. If you want to keep Using Config Manager because you have solutions built on it, or you need management options that Intune doesn’t have, Microsoft wants you to keep on using Config Manager - but to add on the extra features that the cloud connection can bring. The new name was picked because it lets Microsoft add new options to the management platform - Anderson emphasised that “any endpoint can be managed” - and to avoid the appearance that either the cloud or on-premises management approach had ‘won’ by reusing either of the existing names. “But what I came to realise over the last year is that while I think about Config Manager and Intune as one, there were all these things that got in the way of our customers thinking about them as one - branding, licencing and product,” he said. Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of the Commercial Management Experiences team within Microsoft’s Experiences & Devices Group.Īnderson had long resisted name changes. Corporate vice president for Microsoft 365 Brad Anderson explained the decision to TechRepublic. Renaming their shared platform Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) is part of clearing up confusion and reassuring customers that when Intune gets a new feature, that’s not a step closer to killing off Config Manager and pushing everyone to the cloud. To customers, though, they’ve been completely different things. To Microsoft, System Center Configuration Manager and Intune are the same thing: ways of managing the PCs and servers and other devices in your organisation that use the cloud and Config Manager to deliver a ‘modern’ management experience that makes both IT and users happy, with secure PCs that start faster, last longer and crash less.
0 kommentar(er)
