Device Management

One of the exciting features supported within Intune is the ability to perform direct device management of modern smartphones such as Windows Phone 8 and iOS. This over-the-air enrollment and management process no longer requires the need to use Exchange ActiveSync policies to manage settings on the devices.

The December 2012 release of Intune and the January 2013 release of ConfigMgr 2012 SP 1 accomplished mobile device management by leveraging a management channel that exists within the mobile OS, versus deploying a management agent (app) to the device to perform all the management functions. Therefore Intune did not support Android devices, and only supported Windows 8 RT (RTM). The Android operating system platform did not ...

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