Windows Intune Cloud-Based PC Management Utility Hits the Street March 23 54
Roberto123 writes "Microsoft has announced a release date for Windows Intune, its cloud-based solution for PC management for businesses, whether computers are on the corporate network or operated remotely. Intune will be released on March 23 for $11 per PC per month."
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...one patch to wreck them all, for Intune surely binds them.
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>>>http://www.nextdate.co.il/
The category "Personals and Dating" is filtered. Ahhh crud
~$140 a year - $1400 per decade (Score:3)
Versus the $70 I spent to BUY Microsoft Office in 1998. Yeah I think I'll say "no" to this rental deal, just like I said no to Comcast rental
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Aha, but if you squander the money on software you can't spend it at the bar!
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>>>This is not a software for home use.
Yet. Fast forward to 2012 and we'll probably be reading about Microsoft Cloud - Home edition for a low-low rate of just $20 a month ($15 if you are a MSN customer).
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>>>God you're always so cheap
And will be able to retire when I'm 45*, so I can enjoy the rest of my life having fun instead of in the "hell" I call the office. In contrast you'll still be working into your 80s (like my father) because you wasted all your money.
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* Or work part-time because I Want
to work, not because I "have" to work.
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Re:~$140 a year - $1400 per decade (Score:4, Insightful)
Rental?
Its a managed corporate desktop management service. Its like hiring maids instead of going out and buying a bucket, sponges and bleach and spending two hours on your knees every week.
I'm happy "renting" my maids. If you like cleaning your house, you certainly don't have to.
User productivity hit (Score:3)
No. It's like a maid hiring maids to clean someone else's house. The "amplify productivity" might apply to the sysadmins (more likely, it's a prelude to being shown the door), but IME the users are left with more delays, loss of access and loss of data.
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Not that I think this is a great idea or anything, but you're looking at it all wrong. This is an enterprise thing, not a home user thing. For one PC, owned and operated by a knowledgeable user, it's clearly inappropriate. Assuming it works however, it's a much better idea at scale:
For 25 PCs it may save you the cost of a full time systems person. You'll still need to contract people for problems or projects, but saving a full time employee is a big deal for a business that sized. For $3500 a year, not
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You aren't reading. A company with 25 computer isn't a large company, they probably don't need a full time person to handle those things. If the router shits itself at 2:am you reset it in the morning when anyone might use it. You probably already outsource your mail and web service so no great loss. If that fails, you call the contract people I mentioned (or more likely just call the cable company, you probably just have Comcast business service with a router built into the modem). Your server backups
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When the cloud is down or... (Score:4, Insightful)
....deletes all your email, like Google did recently, what then? Or when a physical device doesn't work well enough to work with the cloud?
I agree that the cloud concept makes a lot of sense, but speaking as a full time SMB IT consultant, your computer, local network, and internet service have to be pretty much working for the cloud concept to work, and I spend most of my time dealing with problems that cause the cloud to stop working altogether.
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....deletes all your email, like Google did recently, what then?
You forgot the restore within a day part (a bit convenient to forget, dont you think)
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You forgot the "for some users" part.
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That is why many companies keep spare computers mostly setup, so when one goes down and it isn't a 5 minute fix, you replace the machine out, and take the old one back for it's 12-18 month reinstall.
Reinstalling windows regularly is like changing the oil in your car. If your not doing it often you have hidden problems that you may not know about. This isn't even about viruses. Windows loves to randomly trash itself.
Now to be fair I haven't used windows 7 yet. I have to get a copy of it but I am unwilling
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My Windows XP install lasted for years, until the harddrive finally died. Of course, I didn't install every browser toolbar and plugin known to man. It's not the OS that gets overloaded, it's the dozens of additional crap that people install for no particular reason.
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Oh and it is $200 because I am not a student, and refuse to install limited versions when the full OS X is $130.
Apple uses software to sell hardware. If you weren't paying out the nose for the hardware, then I might agree with you.
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Rubbish.
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It's also for those who are working remotely almost constantly - pushing patches and updates can be frustratingly hard when the IP address of the remote PC is always changing and may not be connected more than a few hours at a time. Especially if the only times it connects to the office LAN is the annual meeting, or for some PC, the time it was set up by IT for the guy who never stepped inside the building (PC shipped to them, phone interviews, etc.).
Think salespeople and 1-person "satellite offices".
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/what-is-windows-intune.aspx [microsoft.com] - lists what it is.
Intune is basic workstation maintainance really. It's not for home users, it's not for getting rid of Microsoft Office, it's for reducing the need of a helpdesk monkey to do patches and updates etc on machines... more importantly for the road warriors of the companies.
ORLY (Score:1)
Microsoft: Throw Bologna at the Wall; See if it Sticks
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When they say "hit the street" (Score:2)
They mean "... after it's been thrown out a window in frustration."
On a related note (Score:2)
Is this a press release? (Score:2)
Lots of competition (Score:1)
Cloud services: Tivoli Live, Versiera
Enterprise: Nagios, Zenoss, SolarWinds, Hyperic, Spiceworks, etc., etc.
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Those aren't competing products. Maybe complimentary, but definitely not competing.
Nagios, ZenOSS, SolarWinds, etc are all Network Management Systems - Did you not see the screenshot? InTune is more on par with Altiris ITMS, KACE, etc.
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I tried Kaseya - it crashed my x64 Win 7 machine the second I installed it...
Took me forever to scrub the agent off.
False alarm (Score:1)
At first glance I thought it said "Windows Immune". Now that's something I'd use.
what does it do? manage updates? (Score:2)
ok for a corporate environment this might be nice but i'm not sure how it affects me as a home user. it would be nice to have a centralized management utility for Microsoft Security Essentials: I'm just not sure the boss would ever think it's worth $250/month for me to keep track of the workstations and servers in our environment. That's a lot of scratch.
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Windows intune provides you with a simple web based console to do the following:
Manage updates: Centrally manage the deployment of the Microsoft® updates and service packs you choose to all your PCs from the Windows Intune console—freeing up your IT staff from routine management tasks.
Protect PCs from malware: Help safeguard your PCs from the latest threats with centralized protection that's built on the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine and uses the same trusted technologies as Microsoft Foref
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Partners can manage Windows Intune for multiple customers from a central place (the central place being https://manage.microsoft.com [microsoft.com]).
In order to sell subscriptions to Windows Intune, you will need to first sign a Microsoft Online Services Partner Agreement (MOSPA).
Subscriptions to Windows Intune will be sold like other cloud services from Microsoft—through the Microsoft Online Services website at http://www.microsoft.com/online/ [microsoft.com].
For more details, please look at the http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ [microsoft.com]
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With Windows Intune, you get the same list of updates as the Windows Software Update Service (WSUS), with the same level of control:
* Windows Intune works over the cloud like Windows Update and Microsoft Update, but you don't need on-site infrastructure.
* Updates are delivered directly to any of your managed PCs that have an Internet connection.
So to me the fact that there is no set up needed to manage the service (for multiple clients) is the USP.
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