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The Windows Intune team is always looking forward. It is important to have a well-defined roadmap in order for a new product or service to be successful. Those of you who have had an opportunity to try Windows Intune have seen the major features it offers: Endpoint protection from malware...

As communicated in our previous blog posts, forum posts and in the notification displayed in the Windows Intune administrator console, the Windows Intune beta service will be ending today, Monday, April 18th . All data in the beta service will be deleted and beta users will no longer be able to log into...

Those of you out there with firewalls may have run into issues with the Windows Intune clients having difficulty communicating with the service.  The excerpt below provides detailed information on how to set up your firewall for a successful Windows Implementation.  Thanks goes to our awesome...

This year, the Windows Intune team will be well represented at Teched 2011 , which is taking place at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, from May 16th to May 19th. We are excited to be a part of this conference and to have an opportunity to speak to customers about Windows Intune...

I’m excited to share that Windows Intune was awarded “ Best of TechEd 2011 ” and “ Best of Cloud Computing ” last Wednesday night at the Windows IT Pro Awards Party. Here is what Windows IT Pro had to say about the awards: Windows Intune makes system management easy. Companies of all sizes can begin...

We’ve often been asked about bandwidth requirements for Windows Intune. Below is an excerpt from the recently updated Windows Intune FAQ that describes in detail how the service uses bandwidth. The average bandwidth usage for each client computer that is managed by Windows Intune depends on...

Below is an excerpt from a Technet article that describes an approach to deploying Windows Intune client software on PC images. Creating custom Windows images containing applications, including management agents, was once a common practice that has fallen out of favor lately. Known as thick imaging ...

The Microsoft Windows Intune product team is looking for organizations interested in influencing the future of cloud based IT management and security. We are looking for IT desktop administrators and technical decision makers who are managing 3,000 or more PCs. Your IT organization may be involved...

Some of you have asked about the possibility of leveraging existing on-premise infrastructure to reduce internet network bandwidth usage from PCs managed by Windows Intune. We are posting some information on this based on some internal testing that we have done in our labs. If your network configuration...

You spoke and we listened! Thanks to all the great feedback we received during the Windows Intune beta last year and its subsequent commercial release, we have been hard at work and new features and enhancements to the Windows Intune service. We received input on how well the service worked for you,...

Here a short video we put together for you that walks through the sign-up process for enrolling in the new Windows Intune beta, and your first steps once you’ve got your beta account set up.  Enjoy!   Thanks to our friend Karthik, senior program manager on the Windows Intune engineering team...

If you have just started using the Windows Intune July 2011 Beta service and are looking for some help and support with it, you have come to the right place. This post describes a variety of ways for you to get help and support on Windows Intune related issues. Try the options below when you need help...

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 a little long but very informative and worth watching...

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 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 party licenses, OEM and retail licenses. Enjoy!

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.  Now with the addition of the hardware reporting...

During Brad Anderson’s keynote, Brad mentioned one of our customers, Aston Martin and how they use Windows Intune and several other technologies to manage their diverse device environment. Windows Intune is tightly integrated with other Microsoft products and this of course includes Windows Server...

A few weeks ago, during TechEd North America, we shared exciting information about the upcoming releases of Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, and Windows Intune. These products deliver our People-centric IT solution to help organizations embrace consumerization of IT...

System Center supports management of a wide variety of device types. That includes slate form factor devices like the Microsoft Surface running Windows RT . The recent Wave-D release of the Windows Intune service and the release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 enables enterprise management...

7/25/2013 UPDATE: We are ready to deploy this update once again. New dates & times are listed below 7/16/2013 UPDATE: We are delaying this deployment at this time. We are currently evaluating a new date & time for this to be deployed and will update this blog posting in the next few days with...

Hello everyone. My name is Frank Novak and I am an Operations Engineer on the Windows Intune Service with the primary focus on supportability of the service. Today I wanted to go through the installation and configuration of the “ Support Tool for Windows Intune Trial Management of Windows Phone...

Jon Lynn, Windows Intune Service Engineer, recently put together a step-by-step guide on how to set up Windows Phone 8 management for Windows Intune. In this detailed walkthrough, you will get information on: The requirements to set up Windows Phone 8 management Purchasing and importing a Symantec...

After the Windows Intune service is upgraded to a new release, you may receive the following error message in the Windows Intune administrator console as the error message relates to the Endpoint Protection agent: Status Cannot obtain the value from the computer. 0x80041002 This problem occurs...

In news today, Microsoft announced that on October 18 th , eligible customers will able to download Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and use the latest update to Windows Intune. On the same day, Windows 8.1 will be available to consumers and businesses worldwide. You can get the details...

Hello everyone, In this blog post I will walk you through the process of deploying modern applications for Windows 8 using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Windows Intune, including step by step documentation with screenshots. Enabling Windows Remote Management (WinRM) To begin you...