{"id":95601,"date":"2019-06-24T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=433443"},"modified":"2019-06-24T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T16:46:11","slug":"system-center-configuration-manager-and-microsoft-intune-now-managing-175-million-windows-mac-android-and-ios-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/24\/system-center-configuration-manager-and-microsoft-intune-now-managing-175-million-windows-mac-android-and-ios-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune now managing 175 million Windows, Mac, A\u00ad\u00adndroid and iOS devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, we achieved a significant milestone that I wanted to share with this community because you made it happen: Microsoft endpoint management (as I like to refer to System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune working together) is now managing more than 175 million<\/strong> Windows, Mac, A\u00ad\u00adndroid, and iOS devices.<\/p>\n

175 million is an incredibly big number. The chart below provides a view of how fast this ramp has happened. I am not aware of any commercial cloud service that has ramped up this quickly. The only commercial customer cloud service that I believe is bigger than ConfigMgr and Intune together is Office 365.<\/p>\n

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To put a number like 175 million in perspective: your odds of winning the Powerball Lottery are about 175 million to one<\/a>. When it comes to the lotto, anyone holding a ticket is on the wrong side of that math problem\u2014the odds are just stacked completely against you. But with ConfigMgr, the value of that 175 million is flipped\u2014now you are the beneficiary of that giant number because all the insight we gather from so many endpoints is constantly being used to improve the features and functionality of your product.<\/p>\n

Let me provide a little more insight into the data<\/h3>\n

For the majority of the time being measured in the graph, ConfigMgr has dominated the growth and usage. If you looked at the mix of ConfigMgr-managed devices vs. Intune-managed devices a year ago, the mix would have been three to one. Over the last couple of months, however, that mix has flipped<\/strong>. In the last month, for example, for every ConfigMgr managed device that has hit the server, three Intune-managed devices have come in. Don\u2019t get me wrong, we are definitely not<\/em> forcing anyone to move from ConfigMgr to Intune, but what I\u2019ve noticed from our customers is a shift towards full-cloud solutions with Intune\u2014and this is represented in the data where we see Intune managing millions of Windows 10 devices. The reasoning behind this is simple: the market has concluded that Microsoft has built the best management tools for Windows.<\/p>\n

To better understand our long-term commitment to ConfigMgr, as well as how it works with Intune moving forward, check out this quick section<\/a> of last week\u2019s Endpoint Zone<\/a> episode:<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DnmnLr2NUXk?start=733]<\/p>\n

What 175 million means for you<\/h3>\n

This milestone isn\u2019t just about a big number; it\u2019s about the way it impacts how you use the technology.<\/p>\n

Right now, there\u2019s a lot of talk in our community about \u201cmodern management\u201d and how it impacts the work you\u2019re doing now and how you\u2019ll plan for the future of work. \u201cModern management\u201d is not a product but a perspective about how to manage and secure devices, and this discussion sometimes leads to the conclusion that Intune is modern<\/em> and ConfigMgr is not modern<\/em>. In terms of how my team builds and operates these tools, as well as how we invest in and prioritize them, nothing could be further from the truth<\/strong>. \u201cModern management\u201d is a way to go about managing your endpoints\u2014a great example of this is the perspective that using Windows Autopilot for PC provisioning is a modern approach, whereas traditional imaging is not.<\/p>\n

In my mind, the most significant<\/strong> element that makes a management tool \u201cmodern\u201d is that insights and intelligence from the cloud are used to automate and improve that tool in ways that were not possible in the past.<\/p>\n

For any organization to provide insights\/intelligence that you can confidently rely on to automate and amplify your efforts, that provider first has to be operating a data set that is both rich and broad. Having something like this to learn from is not just important\u2014it\u2019s mandatory. These 175 million endpoints provide by far<\/strong> the largest and broadest data set available\u2014and then add to this what we learn from over 800 million PCs in active use, over 180 million monthly active users of Office 365, and the 640 billion monthly authentications through Azure Active Directory. Once again, the math tells a compelling story<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This big number is also a safety net for the community of people responsible for endpoint management in companies all over the world. When it comes to managing Windows devices, for example, the things we learn from running a global service allows us to anticipate the emerging needs of a specific industry, or it shows us places where we can continue to refine useful features. The depth of these types of insights simply wouldn\u2019t be possible if we were managing a global network of devices that was dramatically smaller. It takes tens of millions of Windows 10 endpoints to get the breadth necessary to provide the holistic insights you need, as the breadth of the PC ecosystem is enormous\u2014an incredible diversity of hardware, drivers, peripherals, agents, apps, etc.<\/p>\n

The things learned from this type of scale is at the core of every modern management ideal: ConfigMgr and Intune are constantly refined and improved by what is learned here, and the security and management of each endpoint improves accordingly.<\/p>\n

A couple of examples of how this benefits you<\/h3>\n