On April 8, Microsoft launched the Windows Intune Partner Gallery . The Gallery will showcase partner created videos that demo the product, talk about the partner business opportunity and showcases customer wins. Videos don’t need to be polished...

On September 5, 2012, Microsoft updated its publicly trusted SSL infrastructure with a new 2,048-bit root (the Baltimore CyberTrust Root) in order to comply with the latest industry standards for minimal key strength certificates. To benefit from this...

This is the third and final post in this series on topics surrounding Windows Intune client updates. The first post covered the overall client update process, and the second post detailed the policy settings and end-user notifications. This post is about...

A brief note to alert you to a new edition of TechNet Radio , this one with a specific focus on Windows Intune. In this edition, I explain to Technical Evangelist Keith Mayer how Windows Intune can be used to manage mobile devices, both through the "standalone...

Existing Windows Intune customers, Today we announced the latest release of the Windows Intune service . We know you’ll love the new features like Windows 8 support, System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 integration and Modern Device Management...

Back in September, we announced our strategy around unified device management , and how the next releases of Windows Intune and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager will deliver on that vision. As part of today’s update to our Cloud OS vision...

This is the second post in a three-part series on topics surrounding Windows Intune client update behavior. The first post covered the overall client update process; this post will detail the available Updates policy settings and what effect these policy...

I’m Aaron Czechowski, a senior program manager on the Windows Intune engineering team. This is the first in a three-part series on topics surrounding Windows Intune client behavior when the Windows Intune team publishes a client update. We’ve...

The next release of Windows Intune brings integration with System Center Configuration Manager (SP1). A new TechNet Radio episode featuring Wally Mead covers mobile device management from SCCM SP1, including the important role played by Windows Intune...

Software Installation in Windows Intune - a Potted History The first release of Windows Intune - announced at MMS 2011 - was primarily an IT Pro-centric release. We focused on delivering an essential range of features allowing administrators to manage...

With the release last week of Windows 8 and Windows RT, developers are excited to take advantage of these new platforms, creating rich and immersive applications. For many, the Windows Store (and/or the Windows Phone Store) is a great way to publish apps...

As most of you know, Microsoft released an updated version of Windows Intune in June 2012. In today’s blog post we’ll walk through the process to activate your new features in Windows Intune, how the process will work and everything you need...

This post was written by two of Windows Intune Mobile feature PM's - Sharon Nakibly and Yuval Goldstein. In their words: We're Sharon and Yuval - two program managers from the Windows Intune team. We'd like to tell you about the mobile application distribution...

Microsoft has released a major update to Windows Intune that will add a host of much-awaited features, including the ability to import your Active Directory User and Security Groups; mobile device management; the introduction of information worker portals...

As we outlined on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog , the update released with Security Advisory 2718704 invalidated unauthorized digital certificates that were used in targeted attacks. In addition to the security advisory, we have also developed...

We are excited to announce that effective today the latest release of Windows Intune is commercially available. Visit www.windowsintune.com to check it out today. Since its initial general availability just last March, we have added many new enhancements...

Paul and Rich go through the detailed steps required to add the Windows Intune client software to an operating system deployment image. Additional details can also be found in the online help topic here .

  Today, we are excited to announce that the new features and capabilities that you have seen in the Windows Intune beta will be commercially available on October 17th, 2011 .  If you have a paid subscription in the Windows Intune service, your...

If you have access to multiple Windows Intune accounts, then you will have seen the multi-account dashboard.  To have access to multiple accounts, the Live ID you use to log into Windows Intune must have been added as an administrator to more than...

One of the most important benefits of using an online PC management solution like Windows Intune, is that you are not tethered to any geographic location. If you and the PCs you are managing are connected to the internet, you can access the Windows Intune...

A number of people have asked questions about how the remote task feature in Windows Intune works.  In this video we walk through an example of how you might use a remote task to remediate a malware protection alert, and describe how some of the...

Windows Intune now offers a number of improvements on reporting around hardware inventory.  Previously, Windows Intune had the ability to collect and display comprehensive hardware information about your managed PCs, but only on a PC-by PC basis...

In this week’s video, Paul and Rich talk about the software license management capabilities in Windows Intune.  We cover the 2 areas of the License management workload: Microsoft Volume license agreements, and other agreements, which includes 3rd...

This week, Jonathan is back to show us a new feature in Windows Intune: Group Policy conflict notifications and how to manage them. Enjoy!

In this video, Richard and Paul talk about the Software Distribution feature in Windows Intune. They describe how to create software packages, tips and tricks for creating them, uploading them, and then how to distribute them to your PCs. The video is...