System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Unleashed: Supplement to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed

Introduction to Windows Intune

Consumerization of IT makes it necessary to incorporate user and mobile device management as part of the IT experience, something with which Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) and Systems Management Server (SMS) have historically struggled. Users have an unprecedented amount of consumer devices at home, which leads to higher expectations of technology usage at work. This increased pressure on IT to allow these devices to access corporate apps and data, and forced them to purchase multiple products to manage and secure them as ConfigMgr 2007/2012 lacked the functionality. However, it wasn’t enough to add mobile device support in Configuration Manager (remember ConfigMgr already supported legacy devices such as Windows ...