Microsoft has launched the final availability of Microsoft Intune Suite, a consolidation of its endpoint administration and safety options to streamline safety for cloud-connected and on-premises endpoints. 

The consolidation is aimed to function a single vendor for all endpoint safety wants for the shoppers to have single analytics, relatively than a number of disparate datasets, with a constant visibility to potential vulnerabilities and anomalies, in accordance with an organization weblog submit.

“Microsoft Intune is an industry-leading, unified endpoint administration answer that organizations rely upon to make sure their gadgets, working programs, and apps are updated, protected, and performant,” Michael Wallent, company vp, Administration, mentioned within the weblog submit.

Intune Suite, first introduced at Microsoft Ignite 2022, runs a customer-specific, tiered subscription mannequin. 

Intune combines core endpoint administration with superior entry management

Intune’s core capabilities will embody managing cloud-connected gadgets on varied working programs corresponding to Home windows, Android, Mac, iOS, and Linux. It is going to additionally embody Microsoft configuration supervisor to handle on-premises endpoints corresponding to Home windows PCs and servers.

Intune may also present endpoint analytics to assist IT directors perceive and modify person expertise. The brand new product will include options corresponding to “Distant Assist” to permit IT helpdesk groups remotely diagnose and resolve points with a person’s desktop and cellular gadgets, using their present firm id. Presently, Distant Assistance is accessible to Home windows customers solely however will quickly be accessible for Android and Mac endpoints in future editions.

Presently in preview, Endpoint Privilege Administration, will likely be part of the Intune Suite in April, and can permit organizations to automate managed elevation of Home windows commonplace customers for well timed privileges with out compromising safety.

For streamlining entry, Intune has added Microsoft Tunnel for cellular app administration, which routes protected entry from private cellular gadgets to company sources by a micro-Digital Non-public Community (VPN). This functionality has additionally been prolonged to Intune’s specialty gadgets, which embody AR/VR headsets, wearable headsets, convention room assembly gadgets, and huge sensible display screen gadgets.

In future, Intune will likely be including Superior App Administration to supply an enterprise software catalog and managing instruments to simplify the invention, deployment, and automated updating of functions to alleviate dangers related to outdated functions, in accordance with Wallent. By the tip of the yr, Intune will characteristic a Cloud Certificates Administration answer to situation and handle VPN and Wi-Fi certificates from Intune to gadgets with out on-premises infrastructure.

Intune Suite subscription plans

Options on Intune Suite will likely be accessible as tiered subscriptions. The Intune Suite could be purchased as add-on to any plan that features Intune, which most clients get by their Microsoft 365 subscription. Particular person options throughout the suite may also be accessible as standalone add-ons to Intune.

The three subscription tiers for Intune embody Plan 1, Plan 2, and Intune Suite. The fundamental tier for Intune referred to as Plan 1 will embody Intune’s core capabilities and will likely be accessible to clients with subscriptions to Microsoft 365 E3, E5, F1, and F3; Enterprise Mobility + Safety E3 and E5; and Enterprise Premium plans. This subscription is priced at $8 per person monthly.

Plan 2 will likely be an add-on, accessible solely to Plan 1 subscribers and have solely superior capabilities corresponding to administration of specialty gadgets and Microsoft Tunnel for Cellular Software Administration. For this tier, subscribers should pay $4 per person monthly along with the price of Plan 1.

Microsoft Intune Suite — the highest tier — will equally be accessible as an add-on to Plan 1 clients and can embody Microsoft Intune Distant Assist, Microsoft Intune Endpoint Privilege Administration, Microsoft Tunnel for Cellular Software Administration, administration of specialty gadgets, and choose Microsoft Intune superior endpoint analytics options. This highest tier could be subscribed at $10 per person monthly along with the price of Plan 1 subscription.