Last Week in Microsoft Enterprise Mobility, September 8 – 15
EMM Strategy
It’s time to get hands on with Enterprise Mobility, at least according to Brad Anderson (CVP Enterprise Mobility and Client Management at MSFT). Over the course of the past week Brad did some great posts to explain our vision
Real Talk: It’s Time to Get Hands on with Enterprise Mobility
Episode One of the Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson.
Device Management
Brad announced this week that Intune will support iOS8 on day zero (just as Apple announced new iPhones). What this means: unlike the solutions on the market (like Airwatch) that announced day One availability is you can already add an iOS8 device to Intune without having to apply any upgrades. So unlike with our competitors you won’t have to raise changes, organize a weekend upgrade etc. All the stuff that makes life as an admin bad goes away with Intune.
Identity
Identity, Identity, Identity! Not sure how many times we can say this but identity is important. It’s important for end users but also for Admins and last week we released into preview RBAC: Roles based access control which lets you assign permissions to administrator roles inside Azure AD.
Productivity (Office 365, OneDrive, Cloud Storage)
Your personal OneDrive can now hold files up to 10gb in size each. Personally this is super cool for me, it means I can keep my favorite (eval) ISO files on my OneDrive and have them available everywhere I go.
Gartner recognized Office 365 as a leader in their latest MQ for enterprise social. As always it makes me wonder why you’d even consider the niche point solutions that other MDM vendors knock out to “enable” mobile productivity.
Devices
Apparently Apple announced last week…new iPhones with bigger screens are coming. So are Apple Watches. I’m not going to go into too much depth since the entire internet knows what they announced but Brad’s iOS8 zero day support post highlights some of the best things in iOS8 for enterprises.
Microsoft also made some announcements in the previous week but I spotted Microsoft Screen Sharing. One of the things I get asked a lot is how to present directly from a mobile device and this is a great tool to present directly from a mobile device.
Non-Microsoft stuff
I love this post from David Johnson at Forrester:
People are always asking me, “What can we do to help people do their very best work?”
It’s from a great article that outlines why taking this type of approach seems to deliver far better results for a business. It’s something personally I think everyone working mobility should have internalized already.
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