Microsoft Intune Reviews

I support mobile technology for the Department of Homeland Security first responders nationwide, particularly in the weapons of mass destruction area. This diverse group includes first responders, firefighters, and police, explicitly located in high-risk urban areas like New York, including Northern New Jersey and Southern Connecticut, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Additionally, a mobile deployment group travels to major events like New Year's Eve in Times Square, Pro Bowls, Super Bowls, and World Series games, carrying chemical and biological detection devices with Microsoft Intune integrated into their mobile technologies.

Intune consolidates our endpoint and security management tools, providing a centralized solution for controlling security and ensuring compliance with the federal government, NIST, and ISO standards. This centralized control is crucial for maintaining a secure and compliant environment.

Endpoint analytics help proactively detect and remediate anomalies on endpoints. We receive alerts from various detection devices, including biological, radiological, and mobile platforms. A common challenge with Bluetooth or similar technologies is maintaining connectivity, whether it's Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Additionally, we need to protect the Wi-Fi network itself. To address these security concerns, we often use proprietary connectivity protocols to ensure data integrity and prevent hacking, fraud, or unauthorized access.

Intune's Cloud PKI helps us manage our current and historical actions. We can easily access recurring tasks and look for common problems, which is an important attribute of using the cloud service.

For our benefit, Intune is very useful. However, the challenge is keeping it up to date and dealing with shift workers across different time zones. When deploying to the New York region, multiple fire and police departments use these devices. We maintain a database to track deployment status and device updates to ensure effective management. Devices unused for 90 days are suspended with the carrier to avoid higher fees for inactive devices. Although maintaining these devices can be challenging, we closely monitor them and collaborate with regional directors to ensure they are turned on at least every 90 days for automatic updates.

We use the privilege management feature exclusively for points of contact or location managers. Due to the group's diversity and the inclusion of shift workers, these individuals require specific access from an identity management perspective. We only permit access in these designated areas.

Intune saves costs for the federal government.

One reason my employer switched to Intune was the integration of Intune with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Security.

We deploy applications and manage infrastructure based on specific needs, including lockdown services to prevent unauthorized app downloads. We utilize management controls for this purpose. Currently, it's a small environment consisting of approximately 20 major locations nationwide, with plans for future expansion. The management control feature is the most valuable.

Intune endpoint analytics can be challenging. However, factors like usage patterns, timeliness, and time of day can provide valuable insights. We must also consider help desk tiers, change management processes, and other relevant factors. We must prioritize user-friendly reporting over complex, jargon-filled explanations to present these analytics effectively to the federal mobility group and leaders countering weapons of mass destruction, who may need to be more technical experts.

I have been using Microsoft Intune for 18 months.

The technical support has been good. We have priority, given that we work with first responders.

Positive

Before I joined as a contractor consultant, the government used VMware. They changed vendors, and the new vendor convinced management that Microsoft Intune was superior to VMware. I disagreed, having done a lot of business with VMware over the years. I believe any VMware issues could be resolved with the proper account management and connections in production and development.

They believed Intune offered superior controls compared to VMware, but a thorough evaluation wasn't conducted. Instead of adhering to federal government regulations that mandate due diligence when switching technologies, they bypassed the process. They directly consulted the individual heading CWMD at the time, whose recommendation led to their employment and subsequent contract. Their justification for the switch to Microsoft Intune was based on their assertion that it would enable them to perform better. Typically, an in-depth evaluation is conducted before any transition, highlighting the differences to the federal government and justifying the necessity of the change. Cost-benefit analysis might be a factor, but not always the deciding one. Improved engineering, deployment models, and infrastructure management could all contribute to the rationale behind such a decision.

I would rate Microsoft Intune nine out of ten.

The user experience is a learning process, and it's improving. We primarily deal with shift workers who share devices, making identity management difficult and necessitating tighter security. For first responders, feedback and chemical and biological device management for alerts aren't the top priority. They focus on murders, robberies, thefts, fires, etc. Getting them to update their devices is challenging. We try to set it up so they only need to reconnect their devices every 90 days, but depending on the vulnerability, it might have to be done sooner.

Intune is a necessary tool, and we're currently undergoing a transformation with one vendor leaving and another coming in. This involves going through documentation, projects, upgrade requirements, and processes. MDM is only necessary due to the number of tools we have, including Sonim rugged mobile devices and Panasonic rugged desktops used in police cars, fire trucks, and other mobile settings. Dealing with Sonim is challenging because our contract is with the carriers, AT&T, Verizon, etc., not the federal government. Attestations and an executive order 14.28 about managing technology on these devices exist. Sonim is developed and manufactured in China, raising concerns about mobile technologies and managing them through third-party suppliers from non-friendly countries. All these factors contribute to the challenges in MDM.

For the most part, we use it to manage mobile devices. Most of the time, they are Windows devices. We manage them by deploying policies so that we can control the antivirus on them and enable BitLocker to encrypt internal drives. We can also control and maybe lock down some Windows settings to ensure that people are locked down and they can only access certain applications.

By implementing Intune, the biggest problem that we wanted to solve was the protection of company data. We wanted to ensure that if a phone or a laptop gets stolen, the company data does not fall into the wrong hands. Secondly, we wanted protection against any rogue employees who might resign or send company data to any of the competitors. So, for the most part, it was device security and governance. They ensure the protection of company data. That is the biggest problem that gets solved with Intune.

Mobile application management has been the best for mobile devices. It is the most efficient and most sought-after feature compared to full mobile device management. When it comes to personal devices, most people feel that the features and the policies are too invasive, and you are interfering with personal data. This is why mobile application management has been the best feature for cell phones. This is the feature that has been deployed the most.

Intune has supported us in terms of efficiency. It makes work easier and reduces internal IT admins' workload. Instead of an admin having to manually install an application on a device, the auto-deployment feature for the application has tremendously reduced the time that an IT admin spends on end-user devices.

Intune along with Defender 365 brings all endpoint and security management tools in one place. It is not only Intune on its own. You do have the Defender 365 component as well. However, for device management, Intune does bring it all together, and you can do at least 80% to 90% of your management from Intune.

It affects our IT and security operations positively. It allows for increased security and most definitely assists with efficiency and time management. It has saved about 30% of the time overall.

Intune is very easy. As long as you have the knowledge, it is very easy to navigate, and they are always improving. It just gets easier and easier as the months and years go by.

With Intune, we have better security, improved device management, and ease of policy management. We spend less time trying to configure devices. There is better time management, ease of access, ease of deployment, ease of patch management, etc.

I use Intune's Endpoint Privilege Management feature. It works quite well, and I am quite satisfied with it.

Intune affects the users positively. It allows the end users to request access when needed. It also reduces the time spent by IT administrators. They do not have to contact users to initiate remote support calls whenever something has to be installed. It definitely increases security and enables less reliance on internal IT support.

It saves costs. There is probably 20% to 50% cost savings. It all depends on the size of the client or business, but there are definitely cost savings.

Intune has most definitely helped to consolidate vendors. This consolidation of vendors has affected our security posture most positively. There are some security vendors out there that are still slightly better with certain features that Intune does not have yet, but in terms of consolidation, it reduced costs, which is definitely a positive.

Intune integrates pretty well with other security solutions in the IT environments that we have. I would rate it a ten out of ten for that.

The security features are most definitely valuable. If I have to give an example, the lockdown features that prevent employees from configuring anything or downloading company data are valuable. We get high-quality device protection, malware protection, and information protection at the same time.

For autopilot, there should be more granularity on the settings that they offer at this stage.

The licensing model that they have for Intune add-on products should also be better. For enterprise app management, as well as endpoint privilege management, currently, there is an add-on license that the customers have to pay for. Microsoft needs to improve its costing model for that so customers would be more interested in utilizing those features. They should not have to pay additional costs for that.

In terms of securing hybrid configurations, they are not 100% there yet. There is definitely room for improvement. Overall, I am about 80% satisfied when it comes to that.

I have been using Intune for at least six years now.

It is pretty stable. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

I would rate it an eight out of ten for scalability.

Our clients are small, medium, and enterprise businesses.

I would rate them a five out of ten. They used to be great, especially when you purchased premium support. However, over the last year or two, their support has definitely deteriorated, but that definitely does not affect my recommendation to use Microsoft products. I would definitely still utilize them because the support is not always poor. There are times when you do get excellent support.

Neutral

I do have experience with other vendors. It depends on which product we are referring to, but in terms of ease of use, I would definitely put Microsoft high up on the list. In terms of consolidated management, you can do everything in one place, whereas in other products, you might need three or four different products to accomplish the same thing.

Its deployment model depends on the client. We have all kinds of deployment models.

Its deployment is average in terms of complexity. It is highly client-dependent. If it is a new client, the deployment is very easy. If it is an existing client, it can be moderate to very complex.

The deployment duration is also client-dependent. It can take a couple of days or a couple of weeks.

It requires maintenance. It is not maintenance in the sense that you must do something to improve it. As new features come out, they change the policies. You must deploy the new set of policies as Microsoft recommends it, but it is not high maintenance. It requires occasional maintenance.

It is average. Some of the costs are quite high depending on what the customer currently uses, but overall, it is not bad. I would not say that I would not recommend Intune based on the cost. I definitely would, but they can definitely improve on the cost. So overall, its cost is not bad.

I would definitely recommend Intune because of the improvement in efficiency and security posture and ease of management.

I would rate Intune an eight out of ten.

I am using Microsoft Intune for a trading company, Where I need to establish a secure administrative role for this product. We utilize Intune to manage Android, iOS, and Windows devices. We use it primarily to secure devices, deploy applications, and enforce security policies. Additionally, when employees leave the company, we can remotely wipe devices or applications, especially if personal devices are used for business purposes.

Microsoft Intune consolidates our endpoint and security management tools into one dashboard.

The user experience is generally positive. While specific changes can sometimes introduce minor issues, these are often related to device operating systems, particularly variations in Android labeling. Consequently, a small percentage of users have reported inconsistencies across different devices. Overall, however, the platform is effective, with 90 percent of users finding Intune a good user experience.

Our team manages most of the security measures we implement, specifically those related to conditional access. This involves deploying various conditional access policies, which I believe is a positive development. Intune has significantly enhanced its capabilities, allowing us to restrict and secure access to corporate data more effectively.

Enterprise application management is a valuable tool for managing non-corporate devices, commonly called Bring Your Own Device. By implementing this feature, companies can protect sensitive data from potential breaches. Intune offers a promising starting point for organizations seeking to adopt this strategy, as it enables control over infrastructure data.

In my experience with management products, Microsoft Intune is a reliable tool for most of our needs, providing a strong foundation for company-wide management. While initial configuration is required, Intune consistently delivers a positive experience for managing applications and devices once established.

Intune is excellent for managing applications from the outset. It allows for robust corporate data protection by implementing Mobile Application Management policies and conditional access, ensuring all data is secure quickly. This strong security foundation enables organizations to leverage Intune's additional benefits fully.

The ease of applying security policies to applications we deploy is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune.

Sometimes, the process is unsuccessful when we attempt to reset a device and wipe the data using Intune. This inconsistency requires improvement.

I have been using Microsoft Intune for almost seven years.

Support has been helpful in resolving some issues, but response times are inconsistent. Initial troubleshooting can be lengthy, especially for complex problems. While they sometimes guide us effectively, resolution speed varies widely depending on the issue's complexity. Support performance is inconsistent, with some instances of rapid assistance and others marked by excessive delays.

Positive

The initial deployment was complex because there were many steps, and I failed to get the full results. It took a week to complete, and one person was enough for the deployment.

Microsoft Intune is reasonably priced for large organizations that already have Microsoft Enterprise licenses, but it is less affordable for smaller businesses.

I would rate Microsoft Intune seven out of ten.

Because of all the training and information, it took me a couple of years to see the benefits of Microsoft Intune.

Managing deployed applications requires maintenance, but Intune, being cloud-based, does not necessitate such upkeep.

Public Cloud

We opted for Microsoft Intune for endpoint management within our Microsoft solution bundle.

Intune unifies our endpoint and security management tools.

Managing our devices in a single solution helps our IT security operations.

The user experience is good, especially for SIS Administration.

Intune provides 90 percent visibility and IT control across device platforms.

Intune helps us secure our hybrid work.

Our information security team has been quite satisfied with our organization's security posture since deploying Intune.

Microsoft's E3 and S3 subscriptions keep us within their ecosystem and enhance our IT productivity, eliminating the need for third-party solutions.

With the implementation of Intune the risk of security breaches has been decreased.

Intune's unified platform has saved our organization money by eliminating redundant costs, like extra licenses and the need for multiple solutions for the same tasks.

Intune helped us consolidate vendors. This consolidation has improved our security posture.

It is important for us that Intune integrates with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Security for both cloud and commonly managed devices.

Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable.

Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement.

The detection and prevention of end-user data leaks from mobile devices can be improved.

I have been using Microsoft Intune for nine months. 

The first level of remote support is inadequate. While the E5 license grants access to advanced support, I've encountered instances where the technical support team deflects responsibility. For example, a recent issue with Microsoft not syncing properly with the cloud was attributed to Windows and redirected to another team. Due to Microsoft's overall responsibility for their products, I believe since it all falls under the umbrella of Microsoft, they should deal with it.

Positive

Once we create our tenants, the migration and synchronization of the users to the cloud services is straightforward.

We deployed the solution in phases and it took around three months to complete. Three people from our end were involved in the deployment.

Our Microsoft partner helped with the deployment.

We evaluated IBM, Ivanti, and Workspace ONE but our management decided to move away from third-party platforms to simplify and save costs.

I would rate Microsoft Intune a nine out of ten. Intune is missing a single-pane-of-glass, requiring us to jump through multiple portals to manage all our devices.

We have 3,000 users.

Microsoft Intune is a top-notch solution and I recommend it.

Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft Azure

I have been using the enterprise application management features of Microsoft Intune Suite for couple of years now. 

We're deploying security baselines and configuration profiles (GPO) with ease. Tasks that could take much more time if done from the DC.

The features of Microsoft Intune that I appreciate the most are its user-friendly interface and robust security options.

I assess the user experience of Microsoft Intune as positive overall.

I think their advanced endpoint analytics help me proactively.

I would assess Cloud PKI for helping me manage the complexity of the certificate infrastructure as beneficial.

Microsoft Intune could be improved by enhancing its reporting functionalities (for entry level license).

I would request additional features in the next release of Microsoft Intune.

Two years

I would rate their support from 1 to 10 as a solid 8.

Positive

Ivanti Landesk, we switched mostly because prior platform was facing EOL.

I have not yet had ROI with Microsoft Intune.

I expect to see a return on investment in Microsoft Intune approximately in the next few months.

The pricing licensing model of Microsoft Intune seems competitive.

Give our company MS agreement, it was just a no-brainer.

I work for Viscofan S.A. as an Information Technology Modern Workplace Management. My email address is JAURIETAC.

I am interested in being a reference for Microsoft, and they can contact me if they have any questions regarding my review.

Public Cloud

I use Microsoft Intune on corporate devices as well as bring your own devices. It is always within an enterprise environment. I deal with industries such as manufacturing and health.

Microsoft Intune provides a more secure way by offering MFA policy, conditional access policies, and R-back policies. I can set up all my GPO policies, and Microsoft is moving these features to Microsoft Intune.

I could not discuss all the areas that need improvement due to time constraints. However, there are definitely challenges that could be addressed.

I have been using Microsoft Intune for around five to six years.

I rate Microsoft support between six to eight. The support often involves third parties hired by Microsoft who are knowledgeable, but sometimes the help I receive is not adequate.

Neutral

I previously used Blackberry until it was discontinued, which led me to switch to Microsoft Intune.

The setup is not difficult. The deployment time depends on the project specifics.

I rate the return on investment for Microsoft Intune as seven out of ten.

The pricing and licensing depend on my company's budget. If the company can afford it, it is manageable.

Overall, I would rate Microsoft Intune as eight out of ten.

Other

I use Microsoft Intune to check if laptops are compliant or not, and to check if applications are added to user profiles. Sometimes there are applications users cannot find in the Company Portal or on their laptops, so we try to add them to their profiles. We can check if there are issues with Windows updates and verify if they have the latest version. We can check by hostname or serial number of the laptop if a user's computer is compliant or has access to the enterprise company platform resources.

The best features of Microsoft Intune include helping to know if computers are configured correctly and if users have access to apps or the platform. It provides an excellent overview of all machines for the company and helps determine if those machines are facing issues. It is particularly helpful when laptops face issues with upgrading or migrating to Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Automation has room for improvement in Microsoft Intune for fixing some errors. The knowledge and database in support can also be improved. If errors aren't in the database, we need to check forums or Google to understand and troubleshoot them. The most important improvement needed for Microsoft Intune is to have a comprehensive database about what each error means exactly and what steps to take for troubleshooting.

I have been using Microsoft Intune for about four years.

The stability of Microsoft Intune rates at nine out of ten.

Microsoft Intune has saved approximately 30% of time.

Users are mostly satisfied with Microsoft Intune because it helps them understand what's happening on their laptops. For some issues, I can assist depending on Microsoft Intune access. When comparing Microsoft Intune with other tools, the pricing is acceptable and it's easy to use. I recommend Microsoft Intune; it should be used in companies using Windows. I rate Microsoft Intune eight out of ten.

On-premises

We are managing different platforms including iOS, Android, and Windows using Microsoft Intune. We are not supporting Mac. For Mac, our organization uses JAMF Pro. 

We use Microsoft Intune for application deployment, creating compliance policies for organizational devices and BYOD devices, creating configuration profiles, managing users, and troubleshooting for end users' enrolled devices. I provide level two technical support for end users.

My favorite feature of Microsoft Intune is the dashboard. The dashboard is very simple and user-friendly. Any person, even without prior knowledge, can understand it easily by seeing the interface dashboard. Everything is available in one place. 

For example, if you go to devices, all platforms will be shown. When you select one platform, such as Windows, everything will be on the same page, including application deployment, configuration profiles, compliance policies, future updates, and enrollment types. Anyone can easily understand it when compared to the SCCM tool.

For platforms such as iOS, Android, and Windows, Microsoft Intune is very good. When it comes to Mac, everyone uses JAMF Pro for patching and upgrading. I suggest they can improve Mac-related features and platform-related features. We cannot manage servers in Microsoft Intune because it is completely cloud-based.

The main issue with Microsoft Intune is that for Windows, we can support only Windows 10 and 11 operating systems. We cannot deploy large application files. For that, our organization uses SCCM only. We also cannot manage older versions of devices from Microsoft Intune, such as Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 9, as it does not support them.

I have been using Microsoft Intune for the last three years.

Everything is good with Microsoft Intune. They are releasing many updates recently. Previously, we were using Company Portal for deployment. Now, they have introduced web-based enrollment. 

Without the Company Portal, a user can directly register the device by using the Outlook application. In the last two years, they have introduced many changes. The performance and everything is good with Microsoft Intune. For us, Microsoft Intune responds very well. They handle it and provide us with complete data without any issues. Follow-ups are also very good.

We mostly connect with Microsoft whenever we are unable to resolve issues. 

We can check with Microsoft subject matter experts. We log an incident and check with the Microsoft subject matter expert. Based on the priority of the incident, if we create a priority one incident, they try to get in touch within one to two hours. 

They assign one agent who connects with our architect. They try to help us with the root cause analysis of the issue. Mostly, it takes some time because they need to examine all the logs. Root cause analysis takes considerable time to find the exact solution. 

For Microsoft Intune support, I give an eight out of ten. While they are SMEs who can fix issues quickly, the cases we have raised with Microsoft take too much time, which affects end users and the organization.

Positive

One person is required for the deployment of Microsoft Intune, though it depends on the requirement.

When it comes to pricing, Microsoft Intune is very good compared to other tools such as Tanium, Ivanti, and JAMF. Those are very high-cost tools. 

Microsoft Intune is less costly when compared to them and provides many features and benefits. On a single E3 or E5 subscription, a user can enroll ten to 15 devices. A single user can enroll 15 devices. They can access company resources such as Outlook, Teams, and everything without any issues.

Copilot in Microsoft Intune was recently introduced. I am working as L2 L3 support. We are using Microsoft Copilot. We are testing Microsoft Copilot for troubleshooting issues in a non-real-time environment. We are testing it for normal cases, such as Microsoft blogs or when new issues arise for users. 

If a client asks to deploy multiple applications, then a team will be required. Our client is a US-based health sector company, and we are users of Microsoft Intune without any partners. 

I rate Microsoft Intune nine out of ten.