CEO & Founder at Marco Capital Holdings
Consultant
Stable with great integration into Microsoft 365 but needs better UI
Pros and Cons
  • "I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
  • "There's quite a lot of development that they can do within their Intune dashboard. I think there are too many lines hyperlinked to move you around. Others, in contrast, give you a simple dashboard and an intuitive administrative walkthrough."

What is our primary use case?

Typically, for customers that tend to come from a transportation logistics background, it's essentially free or the TCO is literally non-existent. It's a good fit for our resume offerings. Anywhere between 50 to 200 users is a typical use case that we see, where they're leveraging the product for low subscription costs.

What is most valuable?

Its overall integration into Microsoft 365 is great. 

I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management. Linkage to a single pane is probably the best benefit.

I'm looking at it in comparison to other EMMs and there are better EMMs out there. It's still for me at an MBM stage, as it's addressing other areas that make up EMM, however, if you put it in comparison to others, for instance, the overall experience is better. We get OL and DM and we get in the mobile threat detection. We get in a lot of other things into that EMM. 

What needs improvement?

Intune, in their port description, for me is still pretty infantile. I will say in the next 18 months to two years, they'll start becoming a bit more major, I hope.

It's pretty straightforward to implement as long as you've got a Microsoft subscription. However, it's kind-of convoluted how they explain it and what you are paying for. Obviously, we know that the more money you pay, the more features you get. I think that they can lay it out a little bit better, sometimes it's pretty hard to follow what their offering actually is.

There's quite a lot of development that they can do within their Intune dashboard. I think there are too many lines hyperlinked to move you around. Others, in contrast, give you a simple dashboard and an intuitive administrative walkthrough.

The solution looks too technical. Even though it is a technical feature, it comes across as too technical to navigate through. They can certainly work on the overall dashboad and the layout, to simplify everything.

They can do a lot more with Enterprise Firmware over here to give it full support.

Coming from a Samsung perspective, they need to comprehensively support the Android provisioning methods.

For how long have I used the solution?

I’ve been using the solution for three years now.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

From a stability perspective yes, it's very stable. The SLA that Microsoft gives around their network, the cloud service offering, makes it very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's highly scalable. Anything that's in the cloud should come with scale, and in this case definitely a highly scalable option.

I'm not sure, in total, how many people are actually on the solution. With Samsung, there's no preferred EMM solution in place. Most of it tends to come down to local/regional preference. Each region's location has its own mobile provider or EMM provider. We don't manage Intune for ourselves or for customers. Therefore, within the business, I would say it's less than 5%. As I say, we have our own solution. Nobody's going to use Intune within Samsung and we have our own EMM. Therefore, I don't forsee us increasing usage.

How are customer service and support?

As we're consultants, we never rely upon a specific Microsoft consultancy to resolve anything and we clear our own testbed issues. We've very rarely been in contact with Microsoft's technical support. We're more engaged with Microsoft from a strategic partner level or in partnership as regards to our EMM offering. We have all the expertise we need in-house.

How was the initial setup?

The solution is cloud-oriented. As long as you have a valid Microsoft Enterprise Subscription, it's all subscription-driven. From an installation or deployment perspective, it's pretty quick and pretty straightforward. It's not complex. As long as you paid for at least a standard enterprise subscription.

What about the implementation team?

Where I am with Samsung, we're pre-sales. This is the customer's OMS. We're engaging with customers that have these environments in place, to then obviously bolt in our Samsung cloud solutions port. Obviously, we become consultancy on our cloud solutions. However, more so you have the engineering aspects of that.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

For my area of business, we have a yearly subscription, which provides us with Intune capabilities within our test labs. It is negligible. It's pennies compared to our growth target. It's very affordable.

What other advice do I have?

I'm typically an Azure consultant. Therefore, anything on the Azure platform now obviously includes Intune from an EMM perspective.

We use a multitude of versions. I can't tell the specific numbers. We use many as we have to constantly compare against different customer environments. We have test labs that have multi-versions as well.

Predominantly, our deployment models are on the cloud. There's literally no call for on-premise at all, apart from network connectors.

I would advise users to consider the solution on a use case by use case. I personally work in a Samsung Android environment and there's a lot more feature support in other EMMs. Therefore, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. In the next 18 to 24 months, I hope that severe changes are made as Microsoft establishes itself more.

Overall, I would rate it at a seven out of ten. There's still a lot of room for improvement in how they deliver. Their products and features are pretty good, and they serve the need. They probably just need to work on their explanation and probably the layout and UI quite a bit more. 

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Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
MSP
Highly scalable and useful policy CSPs
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the policy CSPs."
  • "The closest Microsoft Intune can be to GPOs, the better. There needs to be more granularity on application deployments. However, they have done better recently with the application deployments."

What is our primary use case?

I am using Microsoft Intune for supporting clients with mobile devices.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the policy CSPs.

What needs improvement?

The closest Microsoft Intune can be to GPOs, the better. There needs to be more granularity on application deployments. However, they have done better recently with the application deployments.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Intune for approximately seven years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Microsoft Intune is scalable. You can add Defender ATP and other inbuilt features.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support from Microsoft is not good, they take a long time to respond to a case and they do not update you on what is happening on a case.

How was the initial setup?

I've been on multiple deployments. The range from the pilot can take from a couple of weeks to a full-scale deployment, which can be a couple of months to a year. The longest I have been involved in was eight months.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The clients pay for a license and each can have a different type of license, such as an E3 or E5.

What other advice do I have?

I have found sometimes Microsoft Intune does not work and it can be very unresponsive.

The honest truth is that Microsoft Intune is the future. Even though it's not the finished article, because it changes every week, the earlier you adopt it, the fewer hassles you will have down the line. The more you wait, the bigger the problem you might end up having trying to migrate.

I rate Microsoft Intune an eight out of ten.

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Senior Engineer Service Delivery at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
It offers great visibility into automated deployment solutions
Pros and Cons
  • "It's not working perfectly, but Microsoft's Autopilot offers great visibility into automated deployment solutions."
  • "The reports aren't complete, and it's not easy to build custom reports. For example, Windows Autopilot isn't working well in cases where the computers don't have a good internet connection. Then the option is not good enough."

What is our primary use case?

My company requires control over the deployment process of new computers, and we have set up some profiles for specific applications to configure the access policies and define permissions for certain objects or documents. That's the most common use case.

What is most valuable?

It's not working perfectly, but Microsoft's Autopilot offers great visibility into automated deployment solutions.

What needs improvement?

The reports aren't complete, and it's not easy to build custom reports. For example, Windows Autopilot isn't working well in cases where the computers don't have a good internet connection. Then the option is not good enough. Microsoft could add an integration for managing Intel vPro chipsets. That would be nice.

For how long have I used the solution?

I started working with Intune three years ago.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I wasn't involved in some of the biggest deployments, but I think the solution is capable of handling various complex scenarios and architectures. We'll probably increase usage, but we don't have any plans in the near future.

How are customer service and support?

Microsoft support is very good. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I previously used a different management solution called SOTI MobiControl, but I didn't switch because Microsoft Intune was better. I just changed companies. 

How was the initial setup?

Implementing Microsoft Intune is easy. Total deployment takes about one to two weeks. You access the portal, buy the subscription, and configure everything. We have three administrators managing the solution.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I'm researching VMware Workspace ONE, a new VM solution. I think it's interesting, but I don't have enough experience to give specific feedback about that tool.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Microsoft Intune nine out of 10. I think my company needs to define the use cases for each user type and organization type. For example, we have to consider if the client has policies configured with Active Directory and assess to identify which policies are required in the new management solution then configure only the settings that they require.

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Senior Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Is integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products but needs to replace SCCM
Pros and Cons
  • "I like the fact that it's integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products, so customers can manage it from their Office 365 portal or Azure portal."
  • "They could also make it easier to use because there are some other products that may be easier to use in terms of the look and feel of the dashboard."

What is our primary use case?

Generally, we use it with banking, finance, or government entities, usually medium to large customers. We also have smaller customers who are dealing with sensitive private data and therefore are interested in running Intune on top of their Office 365 licensing.

What is most valuable?

I like the fact that it's integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products, so customers can manage it from their Office 365 portal or Azure portal.

What needs improvement?

If you could replace SCCM completely with Intune, that would be fantastic so that you don't have to run SCCM with Intune as an extension.

They could also make it easier to use because there are some other products that may be easier to use in terms of the look and feel of the dashboard.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is quite mature here in Australia.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is quite good.

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support is really good. First level support is just your normal desktop level, but the second or third level is much deeper. It's pretty good

Usually, if I log a call in the morning, I may get a call in the afternoon to sort it out through screen share. Sometimes, it's someone in Shanghai that takes the call, and I speak Chinese, and they speak Chinese, so I'm pretty happy with that.

How was the initial setup?

If the customer is already operating on a cloud environment, then it's easy, but if a customer has a hybrid environment, then it can be complex.

If they've got people who are now working home that previously used to work in the office and they still want them to use their work laptops at home, it gets complex. You would need to start looking at registering the devices into Azure AD, which then leads to Azure AD premiums. Therefore, you would need to find out from Microsoft whether to add the device into Azure AD, to register it, that you would also need MDM or an Intune license added on top.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

If you're ever going to buy an Office 365 environment, then pricing is reasonable given all that it does, but if you're not, then you might find the pricing expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend that they check it out thoroughly because things are moving very quickly with Microsoft, and we get better support now, given Australia's a hero country of Microsoft.

A lot of companies are switching to hybrid environments because of COVID, and Microsoft Intune can be deployed in a hybrid environment.

However, because Microsoft Intune doesn't totally replace SCCM, I would rate it at seven on a scale from one to ten.

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Information Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Is easy to manage and easy to configure
Pros and Cons
  • "It's easy to manage and easy to configure."
  • "China blocks Google and Google Play Store, which makes installation challenging. Microsoft Intune is a company software, which has to be installed to the app portal or Microsoft Software Center."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for mobile device management. Android devices, iOS devices, Windows devices, computers, and so on are managed with the help of Microsoft Intune.

What is most valuable?

It's easy to manage and easy to configure.

We use it to completely manage the devices and access policies. We have app protection policies as well. So when it comes to any person who is outside my current organization, he won't be able to access anything if he's not authenticated. That's a really great feature because data security or data privacy will still be there.

What needs improvement?

I see room for improvement with respect to China and Android devices. If we get Intune for China for the Android devices, it would really be a win-win situation. The devices we are using to manage devices in China are partial MDM and not complete MDM.

China blocks Google and Google Play Store, which makes installation challenging. Microsoft Intune is a company software, which has to be installed to the app portal or Microsoft Software Center.

With barcoded scanners, it works really well in countries where Google is not blocked, but again, it's a challenge when we have to install Microsoft Intune where Google is blocked.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been working with Microsoft Intune for roughly three years.

It's deployed on the cloud itself, and we have 10,000 plus users.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support is not great. If you open up a case, it may remain there for a long time. I believe that they may have a lot of customers and that's why we don't get the response immediately. Also, with these difficult times with COVID-19, they may be facing other challenges.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used AirWatch and switched because we were facing a lot of issues with the product. Some things were really great, but some things were not.

Maintenance took a lot of time because it was on-premises. Every month, we had to do upgrades and patching of all the servers.

How was the initial setup?

Too much information was provided regarding the initial setup, and it was too difficult to understand sometimes. You would have to read each and every article and try to understand exactly where and what you need to deploy. That's a bit challenging, but if you have seen the videos or attended Microsoft's training, then it's easier.

I attended the training and was able to configure and understand really well. However, if you give it to a layman, then it would really be a challenge.

Hardly any maintenance is required, so a few people will be able to handle the occasional issues and iOS upgrades.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Pricing depends on the features. Microsoft offers special packages if there are more than 10,000 users, and you may be able to get a reduced rate.

What other advice do I have?

Microsoft Intune is a great product, and you should use it. You can do wonders with this particular product. So, on a scale from one to ten, I would rate it at eight.

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Architect Information Security at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Great features and use cases with an easy licensing renewal process
Pros and Cons
  • "We have found the solution is capable of scaling."
  • "It should be easier to define policies and comply with those policies."

What is our primary use case?

We are deploying and rolling all kinds of devices - our laptops, our tablets, our smartphones. We are using it locally here in Holland, in the Netherlands, and we are expanding the use to all business units abroad.

What is most valuable?

There are a lot of features and use cases. We can use it for health status, access control, deploying, et cetera. There are many features for using it.

Technical support is good.

We have found the solution is capable of scaling.

The stability has been good.

What needs improvement?

It should be easier to define policies and comply with those policies.

The initial setup is complex.

We aren't lacking any features at this point. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good. We haven't had issues. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

As a SaaS, it's scalable. However, we don't really work on scaling it up.

While the solution is pretty ubiquitous, most people in the company don't realize they are using it. While the custodians use it, the end-point users are unaware of it.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support has been helpful and responsive and we are happy with the level of service on offer. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, we used MobileIron. Some of our business units also use Cisco Meraki and several others. We are working towards using one or two globally. We're moving to Microsoft as part of our larger global strategy.

How was the initial setup?

The implementation process is very complex due to the global use of the product. It started small. They used naming conventions just for the home country, so we had to deal with redesigns of the naming conventions for global use. Yeah.

In terms of the deployment itself, it's software as a service. The product itself is immediately available, however, onboarding devices is a huge effort. That's mostly the case at this moment. We used Microsoft Intune, before that we used MobileIron, and we did migration for MobileIron to Intune, so we had a quick start originally. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We renewed our contract with Microsoft about a few months ago. It's pretty simple to renew. We have various licenses for Microsoft including, for example, for Office, Defender, et cetera. I'd rate the pricing and ease of renewal at an eight out of ten.

What other advice do I have?

The solution is a SaaS and therefore, we are on the latest version of the solution right now. 

I'd advise new users to start with a good, high-level design, functional design, from about the naming of conventions, policies, categories, device categories, et cetera.

I would rate the solution overall at an eight out of ten.

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Senior Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MSP
Great for mobile device management and security controls with data loss prevention capabilities
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution appears to be stable and scalable."
  • "They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for mobile device management and security controls.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable aspect of the product is data loss prevention. That's really a benefit of the platform in general.

The solution appears to be stable and scalable. 

What needs improvement?

The biggest improvement could be in the implementation, the ease of the implementation of it. They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft.

I'd love to be licensed in Microsoft. I'm trying to do that, however, I can't find a training program that will fit with my schedule. Everything requires you to be on-site for a week, as opposed to on-demand training. A big improvement would be having some on-demand training that is quality and not just a sales pitch.

I'd like to see mobile device wiping to be better. That feature is a critical feature. If that could be enhanced, I would be grateful.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've been dealing with the solution for a year and a half to two years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

My understanding is the solution is stable, however, I can't say if that is the case for enterprise-level deployments. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable to a point. I don't have a good insight on enterprise-level deployments and therefore cannot speak to how much it can scale.

How are customer service and support?

I've never reached out to technical support. I wouldn't be qualified to comment on their level of service. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup can be a bit difficult. I'm not certified in any way for Microsoft. 

I cannot speak to how many people are required for deployment or maintenance tasks. 

What other advice do I have?

I'm a managed service provider. We work with a distributor who's a reseller. We have clients that use this product regularly.

I'd advise new users to do their research on Microsoft products and understand what's included and what's not included in the packages they already have.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

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System Administrator Senior at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Reasonably priced with prompt tech support
Pros and Cons
  • "I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."

    What is our primary use case?

    We use Microsoft Intune for mobile device and desktop management, more properly referred to as endpoint management. 

    What is most valuable?

    I cannot think of any particular features which I consider to be most valuable. 

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    I have not come across any bugs or glitches as yet. Microsoft M365 boasts phenomenal reliability and stability. 

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    The solution is easy to scale.

    How are customer service and support?

    I had several questions for tech support while setting up the policies. They answered these quickly. 

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    Prior to Microsoft Intune we used IBM MaaS360, but switched because the interface and configurability is horrible.

    How was the initial setup?

    We did not encounter issues with the deployment. 

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    The price is very reasonable.

    What other advice do I have?

    The solution is totally cloud-based.

    I would guess that our entire staff is using the solution, numbering 20,000. 

    My advice to others is that they do their due diligence before going with the solution. But, I would say that it is at the top of the list when it comes to the competition. I believe that it is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management. 

    The solution's integrative abilities are fine. 

    As no solution is perfect, I rate Microsoft Intune as an eight out of ten.

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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