Microsoft Intune Reviews

The primary use case is managing mobile devices and applications. It really answers the question of managing BYOD end-point devices.

The benefit is the way it integrates with the entire Microsoft ecosystem. If you're a company that has a bit of this, a bit of that, and a bit of everything else, then Intune probably doesn't hold up so well. But if you say, "We're going down the path of Microsoft's strategy, we believe in what Microsoft is doing as a cloud provider," then Intune, as far as security and managing end-point devices and managing everything, brings in the story quite nicely.

When a customer asks me about the most valuable features, one is that Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune, because it plugs into Azure AD Premium, it plugs into Information Rights Management, it plugs into Windows Defender, so you have that single dashboard. It also has an integration with System Center which means again, from a single pane of glass, I can manage everything.

I believe they've just released a Mac OS support so that's great. And it has its own sandboxing.

I would like to see micro VPN. I like the way that some of the other providers have done something similar where, as you open that app on an end-point device, it creates a micro VPN straight into your device, which is quite a nice little feature. 

Also, Microsoft Intune relies heavily on its fellow products in the suite. It would be nice if Microsoft Intune could stand on its own two feet.

The stability is better than it was. It's brilliant. It's a lot better than it was about three or four years ago. Four years ago, you wouldn't even have considered it as an MDM solution. Now, it's in the top-right quadrant.

The scalability is there. Microsoft has always said it's for SMB, public sector, and enterprise users. It needs to be there because, if you look at some of the bigger organizations using Office 365 and Microsoft 365, it's got the scalability.

My advice would hinge on what your strategy is. It comes down to: If you're using Citrix then Citrix ZenMobile makes more sense. But if you've got a Microsoft strategy and you're looking at Microsoft security and you're looking at buying into the Microsoft cloud strategy, then Windows Intune is a very viable solution.

For me, the most important criteria when selecting a vendor depend on what is it I'm trying to achieve. I always want to check:

• where it ranks in industry reviews
• for the features that I'm looking for
• pricing.

For example, I may have a product that's brilliant and is amazing and does 120 things, but costs $10 per month; if I only need two of those features and I've got another product that has only those two features and it only costs $2 per month, I'd rather go for that.

I would rate Intune at about a nine out of 10 because it has come a long way, it is continuing to be developed, and I can see it as part of Microsoft's wider vision. It's not 100 percent there but it's getting there. The fact that you can now plug Intune into third-party products is fantastic.

We use it for the inventory of phones and deployment of Office 365. It is used for conditional access.

We can better avoid information leaks.

Conditional access: This feature helps me control uncontrolled access.

It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc.

We use it for the following:

• MDM
• EMM
• Cloud app protection. 
  

It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices.

It needs certificate provisioning for S/MIME purposes.

Using Mobile Application Management for delivery apps to our users on a secure way to Windows and Apple devices.

We are able to deliver applications fast to our mobile workloads so that users can make use of it instantly.

Cloud administration is the most valuable option. No need to install any Management applications.

Management of Linux devices from Microsoft Intune would be great. Then we can any device and not only Windows and Apple.

• Mobile Device Management for all 3M corporately owned mobile devices and BYOD iOS devices.
• Mobile Application Management for all 3M Mobile Applications, internal and external.

Much easier installation than previous MDM solutions at 3M, including Good For Enterprise and SAP Afaria.

Conditional access has helped 3M tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space.

Microsoft Intune lags market leaders, such as Apperian, in its MAM capabilities.

Intune lags all of its competitors in terms of report generation.

Serverless Win10 with App deployment, Azure Active Directory and remote support. Can now co-manage devices with both Intune and Configuration Manager!

The ability to (somewhat) manage full Windows 10 computers including EXE-based or MSI-based application deployments using Azure Active Directory as Identity.

And NOW (last quarter 2017), the ability to co-manage computers with BOTH InTune and System Centre Configuration Manager allows complex application delivery and ConfigMgr reporting etc to add more value.

For our customer, it meant no on-premise systems configuration infrastructure or identity management services were required.

Logs and similar deployment/remediation detail for application delivery to Windows 10 computers should to be improved

Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options.

Unsure. Some application deployments to Windows 10 computers would not start for a long period, with no recourse but to wait and see.

Not relevant in our situation.

It wasn’t necessary to escalate an any point.

We didn’t have a previous tool. The solution was required to extract a company from another as part of a demerger. The new entity was our customer.

Application delivery to Windows 10 was straightforward for someone with prior System Centre Configuration Manager and application deployment skill sets.

We are the vendor. Intune expertise was low at the start of the engagement, but we now have a fully developed Modern Management (Intune) practice.

Not calculated

Consider the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite rather than choosing specific sub-components, e.g. only Microsoft Intune.

We didn’t examine other tools.

Allow sufficient time to pilot and test.

With the ability to now co-manage computers with BOTH InTune and System Centre Configuration Manager, you can pilot-test Intune without compromising on your proven systems management using ConfigMgr.

The most valuable feature is the integration with Office 365 and Azure. This is due to having the single sign-on experience, management, and policy deployment directly from the Azure console.

Mobile phones and devices are now delivered in a few minutes to the user and Intune does all of the configuration automatically. Before Intune, the manual process took more than one hour.

Intune has no remote control function for mobile phones to solve issues remotely for users.

We have been using the solution for two years.

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

The technical support is very good.

Previously, we used Sybase Afaria. It was too complex and it was not stable.

The setup was very simple and fast.

It is good to negotiate with Microsoft as part of their other services, such as Office 365 or Azure.

We evaluated AirWatch, SOTI MobiControl, and IBM MaaS360.

If they have Office 365 or Azure, Intune is by far the best choice.