Microsoft Intune Reviews

We use Intune for Windows computers, and we also have iOS phones.

Intune simplifies mobile application management. It is very good. Its console is perfect. I am satisfied with it.

Intune works well with Microsoft Defender. Intune brings all of our endpoint and security management tools into one place. It is very good. We can manage the firewall and other things. It is very good for the security of computers.

Intune provides full endpoint visibility and IT control across device platforms, but we need to have RBAC for the IT. We have to assign appropriate roles and manage the scope based on, for example, the country and division.

We can use Intune for computers on the cloud, and we can also use it for a hybrid setup with on-premises and cloud computers. We can use Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager to manage all the hybrid devices.

We have a lot of reports for data. There are reports related to Windows where we can see whether all the computers have required updates or not. We can also do an inventory of all applications on the computers. We can also do application installation across the company.

Intune works with Log Analytics for Azure. It is a tool for monitoring and analyzing log data.

We can configure Intune for compliance settings. It provides a method to know if a computer is compliant or not. We can use conditional access to allow or block connections. For example, we can set a condition where if a computer is not hybrid, we do not allow the connection to Azure or we block the Office access for that computer. We can configure a compliance setting to know if a computer is compliant or not. We can also block access if a computer, for example, is not encrypted. There are many settings that we can configure, and we can generate reports to see the compliance.

For application deployment, there are a lot of methods that we can use. We can do it from the company portal from Microsoft. It is very easy for IT to configure. We can package, for example, an SAP application in three seconds. We have the possibility to use the automatic detection rules and package our internal application. We have a lot of possibilities. We can use the applications from the store, or we can package our internal applications. I find it very rich.

It is easy to use Intune. We do not have to work with agents. We do not have issues related to agents. With SCCM, we had to use an agent, and there were certain requirements. For example, we had to use a local administrator account, whereas, with Intune, we do not need to do all this. It is all cloud. It is very simple and easy to use.

It is very easy to configure deployment policies. For example, we can deploy something just for Windows 11 and not for Windows 10. It is very rich when it comes to deployment and configuration profiles. Intune is now much better than before.

Configuration profiles, remediation, scripts, and auto-pilot features are very good.

The user experience of Intune is very good for me. The user interface and navigation are very simple and clear. It is very easy to use for managing Windows, iOS, and other environments. People at IT level one and level two will find its console very simple to use. It is very useful.

There can be more logs. I do not have any other requirements. I am very satisfied with it.

I have been using Intune for six years.

It is stable.

It is very scalable. I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability. 

Our clients have a lot of users. We have 16 or 17 people working with this solution.

I opened a lot of tickets. Their team is responsive, and they respond quickly to help users. I would rate them a ten out of ten.

Positive

For remote access, we are not using Intune, but in my previous company, we used Intune for that. It worked very well. We did not have any problems with it. For managing remote devices, we are using Bomgar.

We have a lot of departments. We are using Intune only for the production computers. For others, we use SCCM. We have a hybrid environment.

It is a cloud solution. Its deployment took about 40 minutes.

It does require maintenance.

It is not expensive.

We trust Microsoft. They are a big and good company. Microsoft is working very hard on security. We do not have any problems with Microsoft.

I would recommend Intune for all companies. It is a very centralized and good solution.

I would rate Intune a ten out of ten.

We are replacing AirWatch MDM with the product so that we can manage our devices. Eventually, we plan to migrate from SCCM, Windows, and Mac to the Microsoft Intune environment. It will help different departments to manage devices from one place. 

Microsoft Intune helps us lock and open iPads easily. 

The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot. 

I have a lot of Apple products in my environment. It would be nice to have an improved integration of Apple products with Microsoft Intune without Jam. 

I have been working with the product for a year. 

Microsoft Intune's stability and uptime are good. 

Microsoft Intune has a lot of documentation. Its support is also good. 

Positive

We used AirWatch before Microsoft Intune. We switched because of cost and customer care issues. We are currently in an SCCM environment. 

The solution's deployment is both complex and intuitive. 

Microsoft Intune's pricing is reasonable. 

We chose the product because it was cost-effective and easy to integrate with our system. 

We are working with a Microsoft partner to improve our environment's security. It helps us condense our profile into one instead of three. 

We expect time and money savings in the long run since it is a cost-effective solution. We are Microsoft partners. It integrates everything into one platform, which helps us save time since we don't have to jump from one platform to another. 

I rate the product a seven. It is a good product with good capabilities. It is a solid solution that is easy to work with. 

We are using it to protect our devices. We are using it for protecting our corporate data on the phone and for GDPR compliance. 

We are using its latest version.

It is helpful for protecting our corporate data on the phone. In the event a phone is stolen, we can remotely wipe the phone or destroy the data on it.

It also helps us with our GDPR compliance. We also have the GDPR module on the cloud that links to all the endpoints, laptops, mobile phones, and tablets. So, we can also remotely protect the data on the phones, wherever they are.

Intune makes it possible for us to reach all the endpoints and have them protected at all times. We have what is called Defender now, but it used to be called Advanced Threat Protection.

The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable.

We haven't really gone through all the features of Intune. We are just discovering them. Every day, we see a new feature that we want to apply, but what will be great for Intune is to be able to deploy apps in a simple fashion. We should be able to easily install various apps on the Windows platform, iOS, and Android. Currently, we have to write some scripts. It's not as straightforward as we would like it to be. It should be simplified so that we can do it just with three clicks—next, next, finish—without needing to write a script.

I have been using this solution for about six years.

So far, it has been good because what we tend to do is get high-end phones with lots of processing power, RAM, and storage. That way, its capacity is never an issue.

It is scalable. It is a multi-user license, and because there are templates for policies, it's easy to just assign what you have set up for executives, for ordinary users, for marketers, etc.

We have about 150 users who use this solution. I work with this on a daily basis.

I would rate them a 10 out of 10 because they knew what the problem was, and they walked us through resolving it. I am satisfied with their support.

Positive

The first one we used was VMware AirWatch. The reseller overestimated our requirements, and we got a very expensive package. It was about $57,000 every year, and eventually, we found out they had a package for $6,000 every year that did exactly what we wanted, so we had to drop it. We had spent two years on VMware AirWatch with the expensive module.

We switched to Intune because we were already on a Microsoft subscription for Office 365, and the add-on wasn't that expensive.

It was simple. I would rate it a four out of five in terms of the setup. It took about a week.

It is a cloud product. It doesn't require any maintenance from our side. We get an update every time they upgrade a feature.

We did it internally. We just went through the documentation.

It's affordable for the protection it gives. There are no additional costs.

I would advise getting a Microsoft partner to deploy it for you. It's a lot quicker. 

I would definitely recommend this product. I would rate it a 10 out of 10.

Typically, for customers that tend to come from a transportation logistics background, it's essentially free or the TCO is literally non-existent. It's a good fit for our resume offerings. Anywhere between 50 to 200 users is a typical use case that we see, where they're leveraging the product for low subscription costs.

Its overall integration into Microsoft 365 is great. 

I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management. Linkage to a single pane is probably the best benefit.

I'm looking at it in comparison to other EMMs and there are better EMMs out there. It's still for me at an MBM stage, as it's addressing other areas that make up EMM, however, if you put it in comparison to others, for instance, the overall experience is better. We get OL and DM and we get in the mobile threat detection. We get in a lot of other things into that EMM. 

Intune, in their port description, for me is still pretty infantile. I will say in the next 18 months to two years, they'll start becoming a bit more major, I hope.

It's pretty straightforward to implement as long as you've got a Microsoft subscription. However, it's kind-of convoluted how they explain it and what you are paying for. Obviously, we know that the more money you pay, the more features you get. I think that they can lay it out a little bit better, sometimes it's pretty hard to follow what their offering actually is.

There's quite a lot of development that they can do within their Intune dashboard. I think there are too many lines hyperlinked to move you around. Others, in contrast, give you a simple dashboard and an intuitive administrative walkthrough.

The solution looks too technical. Even though it is a technical feature, it comes across as too technical to navigate through. They can certainly work on the overall dashboad and the layout, to simplify everything.

They can do a lot more with Enterprise Firmware over here to give it full support.

Coming from a Samsung perspective, they need to comprehensively support the Android provisioning methods.

I’ve been using the solution for three years now.

From a stability perspective yes, it's very stable. The SLA that Microsoft gives around their network, the cloud service offering, makes it very stable.

It's highly scalable. Anything that's in the cloud should come with scale, and in this case definitely a highly scalable option.

I'm not sure, in total, how many people are actually on the solution. With Samsung, there's no preferred EMM solution in place. Most of it tends to come down to local/regional preference. Each region's location has its own mobile provider or EMM provider. We don't manage Intune for ourselves or for customers. Therefore, within the business, I would say it's less than 5%. As I say, we have our own solution. Nobody's going to use Intune within Samsung and we have our own EMM. Therefore, I don't forsee us increasing usage.

As we're consultants, we never rely upon a specific Microsoft consultancy to resolve anything and we clear our own testbed issues. We've very rarely been in contact with Microsoft's technical support. We're more engaged with Microsoft from a strategic partner level or in partnership as regards to our EMM offering. We have all the expertise we need in-house.

The solution is cloud-oriented. As long as you have a valid Microsoft Enterprise Subscription, it's all subscription-driven. From an installation or deployment perspective, it's pretty quick and pretty straightforward. It's not complex. As long as you paid for at least a standard enterprise subscription.

Where I am with Samsung, we're pre-sales. This is the customer's OMS. We're engaging with customers that have these environments in place, to then obviously bolt in our Samsung cloud solutions port. Obviously, we become consultancy on our cloud solutions. However, more so you have the engineering aspects of that.

For my area of business, we have a yearly subscription, which provides us with Intune capabilities within our test labs. It is negligible. It's pennies compared to our growth target. It's very affordable.

I'm typically an Azure consultant. Therefore, anything on the Azure platform now obviously includes Intune from an EMM perspective.

We use a multitude of versions. I can't tell the specific numbers. We use many as we have to constantly compare against different customer environments. We have test labs that have multi-versions as well.

Predominantly, our deployment models are on the cloud. There's literally no call for on-premise at all, apart from network connectors.

I would advise users to consider the solution on a use case by use case. I personally work in a Samsung Android environment and there's a lot more feature support in other EMMs. Therefore, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. In the next 18 to 24 months, I hope that severe changes are made as Microsoft establishes itself more.

Overall, I would rate it at a seven out of ten. There's still a lot of room for improvement in how they deliver. Their products and features are pretty good, and they serve the need. They probably just need to work on their explanation and probably the layout and UI quite a bit more. 

When we develop, it's used for multiple different solutions. It could be anything, such as a portal, field services, web development, web apps, and lots of other different things.

For me, there are many strong points in the solution. Firstly, the skills are readily available. That's one of the things. There's a lot of Microsoft expertise in the market. 

Also, they've invested a lot in their software and continuously updated it. So I think those are the things that are very important to us.

There is room for improvement in integration and security as well. Those are areas that clients are always concerned about.

So, in future releases of the product, I would like to see better integration as well as enhanced security.

I have been using Microsoft Intune for seven years now. We are dealing with the latest update of Microsoft Intune. We have started working on it, and our developers and other personnel are currently getting certified for it.

It is a stable solution. I would rate the stability an eight out of ten.

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

We have over a thousand endpoints using Microsoft solution.

Customer service and support are helpful and responsive.

Positive

If you've got the right skills, the initial setup is not that difficult. It is very quick to set up. It doesn't take long. 

Some customers have benefited from it.

We work with all Microsoft products,  like .NET, and a lot of development around those areas. 

Another one, Arc Systems, is a current platform that we use.

I would recommend using this solution. Overall, I would rate Microsoft Intune an eight out of ten. If they could make the integration a lot easier, it would be better.

The primary use case is to safeguard the company's data. My management wanted to categorize the applications and ensure privacy and security in terms of corporate applications versus personal applications on corporate devices. We began to prioritize B objectives in 2013 and 2014, which is why it is essential for the organization to prioritize its categorization. To accomplish all of these objectives, we embarked on a successful journey.

Since Microsoft Intune has provisioned data, application, and device security, it helped us significantly increase our security posture.

We restricted certain geographical locations with which we are not doing business, which minimized risk, and Microsoft Intune's conditional access feature helped secure our environment from a recent hacking attack originating from a specific country.

The conditional access feature in conjunction with Microsoft Endpoint Manager is a fantastic combination.

The device profiling which uses the official Outlook email enabled us to control the screenshot feature and prevent copying outside of the organization's application. This is really helpful in controlling data breaches.

Microsoft needs to enhance device-level security, as sometimes when using Microsoft Intune, the device's operating system becomes stuck and requires a full uninstall to remove the Intune bug.

The price of the solution has room for improvement.

I have been using the solution for almost ten years.

The solution is extremely stable.

The solution is scalable. We have 300 end users in our organization.

Prior to the COVID pandemic, the technical support was excellent, but since then there has been a marked decline in the quality of support.

Neutral

We previously used VMware Workspace ONE which is a very good solution and in some areas better than Intune, and Cisco Meraki Systems Manager. We switched to Microsoft Intune because of the better integration with Microsoft products.

The initial setup is a bit complex. Initially, we deployed for the executives of the organization. We deployed Microsoft Intune for one hundred users in the first year. After receiving positive feedback, we expanded our model and provided security for all the major executive users of our organization, protecting their data, devices, and applications. We had two administrators and six service desk screen engineers deploy the solution. In addition, our two administrators were verifying the policies and implemented the solutions on end users' devices.

The implementation was completed in-house.

Microsoft Intune is a very good solution and in time I am sure we will see a good return on investment.

Microsoft Intune is expensive.

I give the solution a seven out of ten.

There is no external maintenance, but at the device level, we must adhere to Microsoft's patches and policies and keep our devices up-to-date with the latest patches. The company portal may not allow for older versions, so we must ensure that the solution is kept up-to-date.

Microsoft Intune is a very good solution and when compared to VMware Workspace ONE, it is a strong competitor. I would not call it the topmost or leading product in this domain, however, with Microsoft's progress, I'm sure it will be a leader in a few years. On the Microsoft side, they may need to improve their support system and build releases of the solution.

This solution is on the cloud. What is required currently by our organization is an internet-facing device. The challenges with on-premise have a lot to do with this pandemic. This is why we've seen Intune with the MDM background grow so fast — because we don't have any on-prem limitations. On the cloud, you can manage everything. You can push policies, maintain patches, and maintain security because everything interacts on the cloud. A VPN is not required. In the legacy method, you need to use a VPN for anything and everything. This increases costs.

For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic. Intune also provides us with a lot of flexibility to manage Windows-specific devices. 

Mobile-wise, I like the MAM feature. It provides us with more control over the application identity levels. When combined with Azure, it provides us with multiple opportunities to design and construct a solution that meets a BYOD or CYOD model.

Regarding mobile devices, Intune is good, but there are other services that I would say are ahead of Intune from an administration and reporting point of view. These are a few things that could be improved from a mobile infrastructure point of view.

From a reporting point of view, it could use some work. If I need to push a profile, it's a challenge with Intune because first I have to go ahead, remove a user, then add him back; only then does it allow me to push or sync. If it synchronizes, it exits on a cloud-based synchronization time. With AirWatch, there is a function where you can push a profile directly on a device. 

Overall, Intune has improved from MDM. They have become EMM and now they're moving towards Unified Endpoint Manager. They're just beginning to compete in the market from a mobile point of view, but regarding Windows, they're great. 

I have been using Microsoft Intune for more than five years. 

I'd say it's 99% stable. Azure being in the background has impacted it a bit, but overall, it's stable. 

Currently, Intune is on track to exceed SCCM. In the near future, most companies will be using Intune. Currently, roughly 25% to 30% of companies use Intune. The rest of them, 40% to 50%, are still using SCCM and trying to evolve old solutions — this will change. This whole management model will completely change into a hybrid Intune model or a complete Intune model.

The vendor ships the machine directly to you. All you need to do is connect it to the internet. It takes around 30 minutes or 40 minutes depending on the configuration. After that, you're ready to go. Post setup, if you need anything, you can simply go to the built-in Intune company portal and shop from there. This saved us a lot of time.

Still, the initial setup was not straightforward. When we initially started with Windows, there were a lot of open items. There were a lot of things which were not there. Obviously, we couldn't just move a company directly from on-prem to cloud. There is complexity, there are some legacy procedures that we had to follow. At that point in time, Intune was not ready, but currently, there are a lot of options that can fulfill your security requirements, your network requirements, your application requirements, user accessibility requirements, and the user experience. All of these things are pretty much in the place now. To start with, it was not this way. 

When I started using this solution, it took me roughly one year and three months to understand how to build it, to do due diligence, etc. Now, I can migrate an organization within 13 days.

Implementation is a complete team effort. You have to understand a company from a network point of view, a security point of view, a compliance point of view, and a GDPR and HR point of view. These things take time to analyze; it's still maturing but it's a little bit better than what we had before. Now, after I have interacted with an organization, I can get it up and running within 15 or 16 days.

I never got a complete picture regarding how much we've saved thanks to this solution. Still, I think it's very significant. We stopped using a lot of services because we didn't need them anymore. We don't need a lot of resources — we don't need to procure them. We don't need a VPN solution, plus, shipping is all taken care of. 

I started my journey with AirWatch. It was primarily an MDM solution. According to Gartner, AirWatch and Microsoft are currently neck-and-neck. From an organization requirement point of view, regarding MDM, I'd say AirWatch is a step ahead of Intune.

For the last four years, I've only used Intune. I don't know how AirWatch has improved over the last four years. Still, simple things, like pushing a profile are much easier with AirWatch compared to Intune. From a UI point of view, it's really easy for an admin to go ahead and work using AirWatch. From a deployment point of view, there are multiple options for retaining user data. 

As long as it will not primarily be used for banking or security purposes, I would recommend Intune. If you work in a banking environment and are looking for a high-security solution, then I would recommend VMware, AirWatch, or Jamf. As I said, Intune is still developing. Maybe this will change after another year, but currently, regarding banking and security, AirWatch is a step ahead when it comes to mobile infrastructure policy. 

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Intune a rating of seven.

I'm a senior information security analyst and a customer of Intune. 

Before having Intune, we didn't have the capability to have computers wiped. I couldn't manage the operating system from a central location and wasn't able to deploy policies and verify software updates. It's helped with software update needs, operating system version update needs, and security policy enforcement.

The support is excellent for this solution and the configurations are a good feature. 

There are some enrollment features that could be improved, possibly some other tools that do almost the same job with alternative ways to enroll the device. Intune doesn't have those features. Additionally, I think they could try to invest more on macOS devices making it more manageable, and making the management more accurate. A solution like Jamf, for example, gives you the greatest capability - more capability on management, on policy enforcement, wiping devices, locking devices, and many other things. This is the main reason I'm not using Intune for all the contractors now and the reason we're planning to have Jamf implemented at the beginning of 2021.

If they could improve the support on the macOS devices, it would be great. Then we wouldn't need to buy Jamf. I'm not sure it's possible because of the relationship the enterprise has with Apple, but if they could improve the macOS management, that would be great. 

I've been using this solution for about two years. 

The solution is very stable, we don't have any problems with the platform itself. We had a problem a few weeks ago with the whole Azure provider system which affected not only Intune, but most Microsoft services. This was the biggest problem I've had with Intune, no problems with the platform or instabilities.

I'm not able to scale because of the issues with macOS management. We really have some needs here that Jamf Pro covers more efficiently than Intune does. We are trying to work it to have Intune on Mac systems, but we need to install something extra to make that work. We were looking for a more transparent tool in order to get this enrollment done by a central console, and not have to install other tools on the computers. Jamf does that, so we essentially don't need to install any kind of tool. You just need to enroll your device using a URL and it's done. Scalability in relation to the entire Windows or Android or iPhone environments can be done without a problem. We have around 2000 computers. In my previous job we had 55,000 PCs, and they were all Windows.

We had four analysts working on implementation and we now have two people dealing with day-to-day maintenance. For now, we won't continue installing Intune on macOS. We'll just keep them on Windows, Android, and iPhone and we'll go through the macOS with Jamf Pro.

With Microsoft, everything is on the community and easily accessible. Jamf Pro also provides a very, very, good support team. They have engineers, and depending on the support you buy or the support agreement you make with them, you can have a personal engineer working with you 24/7. Both tools have very good support teams.

It's really simple to implement Intune. Everything is already deployed on the cloud and you get everything you need. If you have a Windows 10, you can perform this connection from the Windows control panel and it's quite easy. We are now working to get the Android and iOS cell phones enrolled as well. We are on a pilot right now for macOS. Computers running macOS are already in a pilot period. We're just verifying that everything works well. We're also proceeding with the implementation for the macOS computers as well. Deployment took one or two weeks and I did it myself. 

In Brazil, we need a partner to get a license. The partner communicates with Microsoft and provides us with the license. We have a monthly contract which is paid annually and we have a three-year contract with Intune. 

If you have a complete Windows workstation environment, Intune is fine. But if you have a mixed environment like I do, running Windows and Mac, Jamf Pro is the best tool to manage an Apple environment. The reason we chose Jamf is because it integrates to Intune. In a single panel you can have all the inventory you need, either from Mac computers or Windows computers, because they send the information to the Intune platform. This was the main reason we chose Jamf.

I would rate this solution a nine out of 10.