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Jan 19, 2017 Tim Tetrick I wanted to highlight this great new Intune Deployment Guide that just recently released. A successful Intune deployment starts with having a good plan and design. The purpose of this guide is to step you through the process of developing a deployment plan, creating a design, onboarding Intune, and conducting a production. Aug 15, 2017 News. Office 365 ProPlus Apps Get Intune Deployment Option. By Kurt Mackie; August 15, 2017; Intune, Microsoft's mobile management service, now has the ability to launch Office 365 ProPlus.

Hi All,

I’d like to start this post saying that this is my only opinion and may/may not be the same opinion as Microsoft or any other person and it is based on my experience working on a series companies over the years (from many sectors of the economy and from many countries)

So, let’s start.

I often get this question, Should we use Microsoft Intune or SCCM? and just few times, they say, should we integrate Intune with SCCM or use it stand alone?

Before answering this question, we need to know a bit of the history. And let’s start with SCCM.
SCCM born in 1994 as SMS (or System Management Systems) as the same says, it was a system created to manage systems and was created in a 4-6 years update cycle, what I mean by that is that Microsoft release a new version every 4 to 6 years. Today, the SCCM 2012, we can easily see that this is the version 5.

Over the years, Microsoft added lots of features, it started as device management system and today it also has the user management features as well as OS Deployment, Settings Management, Software Update, etc…so, as you can imagine, maintaining the development of this tool is quite complex as this touch many other tools that are not developed by the same people. OS Deployment, WSUS, etc.

And most important, we’re talking of a tool that has over 20 years of history and it is being updated to give companies (that invested money buying and customizing this tool) the best tool in the business.

This is a tool that you install inside your company and as you can imagine, you need people that knows what they are doing to maintain and keep it running.

To summarize: SCCM has lots of features that companies need and if there is a missing feature, you can customize as it is installed on a server (or servers) that you manage and have access to it.

[BE AWARE: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. when customizing SCCM, test this in a Lab before performing change in a live production environment. If you’re not sure, ask someone with more experience or maybe contract a company to do for you]

As you can see, SCCM has lots of features focused on what companies need and the feature list grow over the years and still growing, as Microsoft is still investing a lot of money on its development. You can extend it as much as you want. Using 3rd party tools or create your own tools.

With 2012/R2, it started being easy to do as it added support for PowerShell, so the development of extensions started to be an easy task, but may not need to start from zero, there lots of companies that have created tools for SCCM (like Secunia CSI to manage 3rd party software update, 1E Nomad to help minimize the bandwidth utilization, Enhansoft for better reporting, RFL Systems dashboard for a better view of the environment, etc).

Also, the CM community has grown over the years as much as the product has grown, there are lots of people with lots of experience that can help you out as well as you can find lots of good information of “goodies” (ie. Scripts, documentation, etc) out there.

Now, let’s talk about Intune. Intune is still a kid, it started few years back and if I recall properly, the name was System Center online. the objective that time was to manage devices for small companies, and by devices I meant windows desktops, not servers. it had basic features, like its brother (the system center essentials) had, so I usually called it System Center Essentials, the online version. It had the monitoring capabilities that that you could find on SCOM as well as the software update and software deployment technologies that you could find on WSUS. Later on it started to have integration with Anti-Virus, however, it never had more than that, I mean, no OS Deployment, no peer to peer, etc.

Later on, Microsoft added lots of features focused on mobile device management and renamed it to Windows Intune and recently, Microsoft Intune.

Microsoft Intune, different from SCCM, is not installed on your environment, so you don’t need to have people looking after intune as Microsoft does it for you, so you don’t need to install any server, buy server licenses, buy hardware (or create a new virtual server), patch or look after anything server related, it is a cloud and because it is installed and managed by Microsoft and it is not inside your organization, you access it over the internet (so internet is necessary) and perform the action using a webportal. As you can imagine, if your internet is not good, the user experience will not be good and there is nothing you can do about it.

Now, imagine if your internet goes down?!?! No new software installation, patch, etc…

Another difference from SCCM, you cannot extend the capabilities, there is no support for PowerShell or any other 3rd party tool. It also, its client is not created to manage Server, there is no support for Linux/Mac, OS Deployment, etc. D. b. sweeney.

The focus on Intune today is Mobile Device Management and non-mobile device management features are not getting attention or are not being developed at all. The nice thing that intune is bringing, as it only exist at Microsoft environment, Microsoft can bring new features every month, and they have being doing this.

One of the drawn back is, because you have no way to test before it has been implemented, how can you be sure the update will not break anything in your environment? You can’t rollback/revert/refuse changes, they just happen.

I normally say that Intune is for companies where specialized IT does not exist. You cannot break a server, but you still able to break a desktop if you deploy the wrong thing. So with a bit of knowledge of IT, one person could manage an organization, deploy application, deploy software updates, etc. while with SCCM, you need someone that is experienced with SCCM and probably with SQL, Windows Servers, Windows Deployment, WSUS, etch

For a business, the 1st person is really cheap while the expert will costs a lot.

So, one of the differences would be MONEY, that depending on the size of the organization, intune may be cheap at the beginning but may be more expensive in a long run (3-5 years)

Now, features, OS Deployment, Integration with 3rd party tools, server management, etc.

If your company buys a device from BestBuy, PC World, etc and are happy with it, so no OS Deployment, Intune would be a great option, however, if your company needs to customize the OS Deployment before deploy to a user, wants to integrate with 3rd party tools, having a solution you cannot do this, is not an option.

Note that we have not even talked about security (that as you can imagine, has lots of things to be said), but lets just say, where is my data? Is it encrypted? Who has access to it? What data is being copied to the Clouse? So if you don’t trust Microsoft to hold your data, Intune is not an option.

In my view, Intune has a great solution that is the “monitor” part, that SCCM does not have, however, this is the feature that from what I’ve seen, is the least used in Intune.

For the majority of companies, using Intune would not help as there are many missing features and the focus is mobile device management. While for SCCM, the Mobile device management feature is missing but they do have a lots of features for device management for both servers and clients. So, for device management, I will always say: Use SCCM while for Mobile Device Management, I would say, use Intune…

And by mobile device management, I’m referring to the management of iPhone/iPad, Windows Phone 8.x, Android.

For an IT person where the company has SCCM already, you’ll then need to use 2 consoles, 1 for your devices/servers and another for your mobile devices, what is not the best option.

What Microsoft has done, is perform the integration between the solutions, so you can use SCCM to manage on-prem devices as well as mobile devices, so all features that you have with SCCM as well as the power of integration with 3rd party tools still there and depending on what you want to do, you still able to do for Mobile Devices.

But this is today, as you may already know, the new SCCM that will be release later on this year and currently in preview, does have a Mobile Device Management feature built in, so, you’ll only need intune for license purposes and not having a intune to manage your devices.

I often see companies using solution because a Sales person said it is the best for the company without a proper validation of the requirements. As you may be thinking, Microsoft is pushing cloud so, you can expect that their sales people will be pushing Intune as opposite to SCCM just because intune is a MS cloud solution, not because it is good or bad.

the decision about using intune or SCCM (or maybe the integration) should be based on what the company needs (and hopefully after a test environment being created and features tested), pros and cons and then price, but most of the time is price. So, in those environments you can imagine, IT gets blamed for not doing the job properly.

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This app type makes it easy for you to assign Office 365 2016 apps to macOS devices. By using this app type, you can install Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. To help keep the apps more secure and up to date, the apps come with Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU). The apps that you want are displayed as one app in the list of apps in the Intune console.

Before you start

Before you begin adding Office 365 to macOS devices, understand the following details:

  • Devices to which you deploy these apps must be running macOS 10.10 or later.
  • Intune supports adding the Office apps that are included with Office 2016 for Mac suite only.
  • If any Office apps are open when Intune installs the app suite, users might lose data from unsaved files.

Select the Office 365 Suite app type

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  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Endpoint Manager Admin Center.
  2. Select Apps > All apps > Add.
  3. Select macOS in the Office 365 Suite section of the Select app type pane.
  4. Click Select. The Add Office 365 Suite steps are displayed.

Step 1 - App suite information

Windows App Deployment Intune

In this step, you provide information about the app suite. This information helps you to identify the app suite in Intune, and it helps users to find the app suite in the company portal.

  1. In the App suite information page, you can confirm or modify the default values:
    • Suite Name: Enter the name of the app suite as it is displayed in the company portal. Make sure that all suite names that you use are unique. If the same app suite name exists twice, only one of the apps is displayed to users in the company portal.
    • Suite Description: Enter a description for the app suite. For example, you could list the apps you've selected to include.
    • Publisher: Microsoft appears as the publisher.
    • Category: Optionally, select one or more of the built-in app categories or a category that you created. This setting makes it easier for users to find the app suite when they browse the company portal.
    • Show this as a featured app in the Company Portal: Select this option to display the app suite prominently on the main page of the company portal when users browse for apps.
    • Information URL: Optionally, enter the URL of a website that contains information about this app. The URL is displayed to users in the company portal.
    • Privacy URL: Optionally, enter the URL of a website that contains privacy information for this app. The URL is displayed to users in the company portal.
    • Developer: Microsoft appears as the developer.
    • Owner: Microsoft appears as the owner.
    • Notes: Enter any notes that you want to associate with this app.
    • Logo: The Office 365 logo is displayed with the app when users browse the company portal.
  2. Click Next to display the Scope tags page.

Step 2 - Select scope tags (optional)

You can use scope tags to determine who can see client app information in Intune. For full details about scope tags, see Use role-based access control and scope tags for distributed IT.

  1. Click Select scope tags to optionally add scope tags for the app suite.
  2. Click Next to display the Assignments page.

Win32 App Deployment Intune Docs

Step 3 - Assignments

  1. Select the Required or Available for enrolled devices group assignments for the app suite. For more information, see Add groups to organize users and devices and Assign apps to groups with Microsoft Intune.

    Note

    You cannot uninstall the Office 365 for macOS app suite through Intune.

  2. Click Next to display the Review + create page.

Step 4 - Review + create

  1. Review the values and settings you entered for the app suite.

  2. When you are done, click Create to add the app to Intune.

    The Overview blade of the Office 365 Window 10 app suite you've created is displayed. The suite appears in the list of apps as a single entry.

Next steps

  • To learn about adding Office 365 apps to Windows 10 devices, see Assign Office 365 ProPlus 2016 apps to Windows 10 devices with Microsoft Intune.
  • To learn about including and excluding app assignments from groups of users, see Include and exclude app assignments.