At last, today is the day!  We are excited to announce that effective immediately, you can go to the Microsoft Online Customer Portal and sign up for a 30 day trial subscription which allows you to evaluate Windows Intune on up to 25 PCs, or, better...

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...

After evaluating the update management features in the Windows Intune beta, some of you will be curious to know how Windows Intune’s update management feature compares with the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) solution. The short answer is that Windows...

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...

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...

If you have just started using the Windows Intune cloud service and are looking for some help and support with it you have come to the right place. On this page we have collected together a variety of ways for you to get help, and support on Windows Intune...

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 .

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

This year's Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas is a pretty special occasion for us. After two years of hard work building a cloud-based PC management service, we will be launching Windows Intune . Many members of the Windows Intune team will be...

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...

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...

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...

Windows Intune is new desktop infrastructure solution that uses cloud services, Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade rights, and advanced tools included in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to help midmarket businesses keep their PCs managed, secure...

Here's a short video that drills down into more detail on how the software inventory in windows Intune works. Enjoy! Paul Bourgeau

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...

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...

Hello - The Windows Intune service will undergoing a brief maintenance window that will require 30 minutes of downtime. During this downtime window, you will be unable to access the Windows Intune Administration Console. Maintenance window is scheduled...

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...

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...

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...