Monday, February 28, 2011

Windows Intune

Windows Intune builds on our history of delivering cloud services at scale, including Hotmail and Windows Update, and leverages Microsoft’s cloud experience with Azure, Dynamics CRM Online and Office 365 to give our customers the best Windows experience possible by providing the tools IT professionals need to ensure their employees can be productive and secure from virtually anywhere. Windows Intune also includes upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise, so customers can standardize on a single version of Windows, making management of their PC environment easier and more efficient.

On March 23, we invite you to join us at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas or tune in to www.windowsintune.com (which should get updated later today) as we introduce the final version of Windows Intune and celebrate its commercial availability in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, United Kingdom and United States.

For now, we encourage you to sign up for Windows Intune notifications, where you can find information about the upcoming free 30 day trial. Partners, be sure to visit https://partner.microsoft.com/windowsintune to learn how you can add Windows Intune to your catalog of products and services.

Top 10 Benefits


1.Help manage and secure your PCs from anywhere.

The Windows Intune cloud service helps keep your employees productive in
the office or on the road—all that’s required is an Internet connection. Through
a simple web-based console, your IT staff can provide remote assistance from
virtually anywhere, centrally manage updates, and proactively help protect PCs
from malware threats, so your employees can stay focused on the business.

2.Get the best Windows experience.

Standardizing your PC environment provides a better experience for your
workforce and an easier environment for you to manage. You can upgrade to
Windows 7 Enterprise operating system or run a prior release—it’s your choice.
With its intuitive interface and advanced search capabilities, plus BitLocker®
drive encryption to better protect confidential data, Windows 7 Enterprise
gives your employees the best Windows experience available. As long as
your subscription remains active, you’ll also get upgrade rights to the latest
operating system, so you won’t need to worry about buying upgrade licenses
when the time comes.

3.Achieve big-tech results with a small-tech investment.

Designed to fit businesses without PC management and security infrastructure,
Windows Intune is an all-in-one solution that includes PC management,
malware protection, and Windows upgrades rolled into one easy purchase.
With minimal overhead, simple billing, and no formal training required, it’s easy
to get started and maintain.

4.Stop malware threats before they stop you.

Windows Intune gives you powerful, centralized protection to help keep your
PCs safe from the latest security threats. Built on the Microsoft® Malware
Protection Engine and using the same trusted technologies as Microsoft
Forefront® Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Security Essentials, you get
real-time protection with reporting and alerts to help safeguard PCs against
dynamic forms of malicious software, including spyware, viruses, and root kits.

5. Keep your PCs up-to-date.

Centrally manage the deployment of Microsoft updates and service
packs to all managed PCs. Through the web-based console, you can select
which updates you want to deploy across your PCs to help keep them
running smoothly.

6.Identify issues before they impact business.

Windows Intune makes it simpler for you to proactively monitor your PCs,
sending alerts to help you identify potential problems before they negatively
impact your employees and your business. With Windows Intune, you can
set up security and update alerts that notify you when you’ve got a threat
or if a critical update was unsuccessful—so you can fix it before your PCs
become vulnerable.

7.Easily track your assets and manage licenses.

Effective inventory management is key to optimizing existing investments.
With Windows Intune, you can easily view and track your organization’s
hardware and software inventory, so you can efficiently manage your assets,
licenses, and compliance.

8.Manage multiple customer accounts from a single view.

If you’re a solution provider or an IT consultant using Windows Intune to
manage your customers PCs, the Multi-Account Console consolidates all
of your customer accounts in a single view to help you stay on top of your
customers’ needs.

9.Increase your insight with reporting.

Get a snapshot of what’s going on in your PC environment, so you can quickly
see the status of updates, software, licensing, and more. In just a few simple
steps, you can create a report that gives you a full list of all the installed
software on your PCs managed by Windows Intune—so you can better
analyze specific needs of users in your organization. This data can also be
imported into other reporting tools such as Microsoft Office Excel® so you
can organize it into a view that’s most helpful for you.

10.A cloud you can count on.

Microsoft is a leader in IT infrastructure solutions with the Microsoft System
Center family of products, and we used that experience in developing
Windows Intune. Windows Intune takes advantage of the Windows Update
infrastructure, one of the world’s largest cloud services, which delivers
updates every month to hundreds of millions of PCs. And with a financially
backed 99.9 percent uptime service level agreement, you can have confidence
the service will be there when you need it.

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