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Jason_Sandys
Microsoft
MicrosoftNo one is forcing or even asking customers to move away from ConfigMgr. It's still a great tool and is why we've created features like co-management and tenant attach -- collectively referred to as cloud attach. We are currently hard at work on direct integration between Intune and the Microsoft Store and Windows Package Manager repositories. The vision here is that this will greatly simplify all application management tasks and make them no-brainers for standard, public software management.
No, no one is forcing anyone. The issue is this panel is encouraging a Cloud First mentality, but there are still some serious lacks of feature parity that many organizations still depend upon. Even startups that require certain applications and control requirements cannot achieve this via Intune solely.
- Jason_SandysThis is because that is our engineering direction. I disagree with the last statement though as we have many, many organizations that have adopted Intune only for their management strategy (some very large, some small, and everywhere in between). This often takes a paradigm shift and re-thinking of how you go about management (perhaps some creativity as well), but it can be done. Just because its the way you've always done it, doesn't make it the only or only right way to do it.
- I agree with the sentiment that we shouldn't just perform a task solely because that is the way it was always done. That being said, we shouldn't change a task for the sole sake of change either, there needs to be a good reason. Application management and timing of execution is a major pain point, as illustrated in the comments of this very event. Clients want the process to be easier, not more complex.
- Jason_SandysWe're not proposing change for the sake of change, we're proposing change in response to the significant shift in the workforce to a hybrid model, Zero-trust principals, and the many additional synergies, simplicities, and cost savings that come from operating from a commodity service like Azure. Does Intune still require work and is it less mature than ConfigMgr? Yes, no argument there. Does that mean you can't be successful with it though? That depends on your requirements and your willingness to adopt new ways of doing things including eliminating some streams that aren't actually necessary.