Microsoft Takes Desktop Management To The Cloud: Introducing Windows Intune

[DaveP]

Link: Microsoft Takes Desktop Management to the Cloud: Introducing Windows Intune - Windows 7 Team Blog - The Windows Blog



Anyone going to give it a go?

[04nunhucks]

This looks tasty!

[DaveP]

Link to another article on the same topic with more screenshots [useful when visualising a new product]

Link: Windows Intune – Features, details and screenshots - 4sysops

[Cue]

I could have sworn I was looking at System Center Essentials 2010 for a second.

Honestly, how many different System _____ _____ ____ products do they have now? I lost count at some point. Still waiting on that real-time management suite for locking, logging out, blacking out (basically RM Tutor without the suck and with the integration into my domain) etc, from MS.

[DaveP]

I could have sworn I was looking at System Center Essentials 2010 for a second.

Windows Intune main features

Updates (from what I could I see the interface is quite simple and is no match for WSUS)
Malware protection (based on Security Essentials (client-side) and Forefront (backend))...

Could that be the reason? [Products have similar roots?]

[nephilim]

I have seen a live demo of this and it looks quite good, however I personally want to test it on a virtual system before I give it the go ahead!

[Cue]

Could that be the reason? [Products have similar roots?]

Moreso the design of the content panel, which is very similar.