Windows Intune is Microsoft’s latest cloud service designed to simplify and help businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services & Windows client operating systems. Windows Intune is a comprehensive offering that includes PC management; malware protection and a Windows upgrade subscription.

Windows Intune is Microsoft’s cloud solution for PC management and security.   

Windows Intune plays a key role in bringing the advantages of the cloud to our customers and partners.

Let’s look at the ways that the cloud can change desktop management. Your customers depend on you to keep their PCs up and running—whether they are in the office or on the road—so that they can be most productive. But this can be challenging given the complexities surrounding an organization’s PC infrastructure:

• PCs are running multiple configurations, versions, and licenses
• With workers in many locations – in the corporate office, branch office, coffee shops, home office – ensuring their PC’s are up to date and secure can be a challenge when PCs aren’t physically in the office or connected to the corporate network.
• With PC’s spread across these locations – some with corporate network access and some with just an Internet connection - IT professionals noted that a lack of insight to all their PCs impaired their ability to efficiently identify and resolve issues. For instance, there were times when IT couldn’t confirm that security patches and updates had been validated and deployed on remote PCs.
• Lastly, on-premises desktop management solutions that could address some of these needs required high upfront infrastructure investments – in both technology costs and deployment time.

Microsoft has designed Windows Intune, the latest addition to the Microsoft Online Services family, to help you meet these challenges and help your customers be more productive.

With Windows Intune, you can:

•Help businesses manage and protect PCs virtually anywhere with the cloud service component

•Give your users the best Windows experience with the Windows 7 upgrade rights

•Deliver big tech results to your customers with a small tech investment for them.

Tonight (Oct 27, 2011), I will present and demonstrate Windows Intune to the Montgomery Windows IT Professional Group and the Montgomery Area .NET User Group at the Alabama Technacenter (right off exit 11 on I-85 in East Montgomery) at 6:30 PM.  I hope you can make it.  Free pizza and soft drinks, thanks to http://www.idera.com, will be served!