Unless you need those super granular controls that only MobileIron or Airwatch has, you will want to keep Intune. If you already have a Microsoft 365 Tenant or intend to have one, Microsoft Intune is really a no-brainer. Microsoft Intune on the other hand is easier to use in my opinion and has most features that most organization needs. So you have much more granular controls in MobileIron if you need to. He says: One of the key differences is MobileIron is much more mature than Intune in some aspects. Hello Lahcen, I am posting this comment on behalf of one of our site users who is the Head of Infrastructure at his company. Īnd finally, there’s a Microsoft Endpoint Manager FAQ document which you may find useful here. This is a useful article if you want to learn more about branches and licensing. Configuration Manager must always be purchased with Software Assurance through a Volume Licensing agreement and the LTSB is intended for customers who have perpetual licence rights to Configuration Manager but have let the SA expire. Customers who have active Software Assurance or a subscription to EMS E3 (for example) may use this branch.

As a recap, there’s a current branch and long-term servicing branch (LTSB) for Configuration Manager, with the current branch providing an active servicing model as you would expect. There’s a name change but there aren’t changes to the licensing of Configuration Manager. There are some management scenarios which aren’t covered with the co-management rights and this article has some useful instances of when you would also need a full Intune licence when you have a Configuration Manager licence, for example. In terms of co-management licensing, organisations don’t have to buy both Configuration Manager and Intune licences: if they are licensed for Configuration Manager then they are automatically licensed for Intune for co-managing Windows PCs, and if they are licensed for Intune, then they are also automatically licensed for Configuration Manager for co-managing Windows PCs. Bringing everything up to date, the July 2020 Product Terms updates the name of System Center Configuration Manager to Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager. The benefit of Microsoft Endpoint Manager is that it makes it easier for organisations to concurrently manage Windows 10 devices with both Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune, a configuration called co-management.

Microsoft Endpoint Manager is the name for all of Microsoft’s endpoint management solutions, and includes System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune.

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