Microsoft this week announced its new Microsoft Intune Suite, a product that gives users security solutions and advanced endpoint management. Available now, Microsoft says the suite is available for organizations now and will allow them to have a central security and endpoint management solution without needing to adopt a multi-vendor approach.
Intune Suite is available through Microsoft 365 on the E3 and E5 subscription. Microsoft says that its regular individual Intune solutions remain available as they were before. This new plan will sit alongside them and be more affordable if you compare it against individual Intune with all add-ons.
Features
Microsoft points to the following capabilities of Microsoft Intune Suite:
- “Remote Help is a tool that will assist helpdesks—especially important as workers are now working away from the office more often. Remote Help is already available for Windows users and will also come to Android and Mac endpoints in future releases. It enables IT helpdesk teams to remotely troubleshoot a user’s desktop and mobile devices based on a user’s existing company identity. The extra Android support will prove particularly useful for managing frontline workers’ devices. Learn more about recent Remote Help updates for Windows.
- Endpoint Privilege Management, in preview in March 2023 and generally available in April 2023, will enable the controlled elevation of Windows standard users so security controls don’t get in the way of productivity. The right users will have the right privileges at the right time, to reduce the security risk of overprivileged users and reduce the burden on the help desk by allowing greater self-serve for basic scenarios, like setting up a local printer. Learn more about Endpoint Privilege Management first release capabilities.
- The Intune Suite also offers advanced endpoint analytics features, data-driven insights that help IT administrators understand, anticipate, and improve the user experience for the staff in the organization.
- There is also Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile App Management, a micro-VPN that connects corporate resources from personal iOS/iPadOS and Android devices, so employees can have access to company resources from their personal mobile devices when duty calls.
- The Intune Suite improves the management of specialty devices, to give employees the flexibility to choose the device they need to get the job done without those devices becoming points of vulnerability.
- Following the March 1, 2023, launch, another capability that will be added to the Intune Suite is advanced app management, offering an enterprise app catalog and controls for easy app discovery, deployment, and automatic updating to mitigate risks introduced by out-of-date apps. Later this year, Microsoft will also introduce a cloud certificate management solution to issue and manage VPN and Wi-Fi certificates from Intune to devices without on-premises infrastructure. We will continue to add additional advanced capabilities to the Intune Suite over time, providing more endpoint security, automation, and control of the user computing landscape and experience.”
Intune
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based mobile device management service. Among the features of the service are mobile application management, and PC management. Announced in 2011, the service manages company-owned devices as well as end users’ personal devices.
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