Microsoft Intune Gets New Device Management Capabilities

Cloud Computing

Key Takeaways:

  • Microsoft has added new device management capabilities to Intune this month.
  • The updated app supersedence feature lets IT admins easily keep Win32 applications up to date.
  • The new remote diagnostics feature aims to simplify the process of obtaining diagnostics from Microsoft 365 apps running on Android and iOS devices.

Microsoft released several new device management capabilities for its Intune solution in April 2024. The company highlighted several improvements, including streamlined app updates for better security and productivity and simplified troubleshooting for Microsoft 365 apps.

Microsoft has introduced updated app supersedence to help administrators keep Win32 applications up to date. The supersedence feature lets IT admins update and replace existing Win32 apps with new versions of the same app or a different Win32 app. They can now add an app to Intune and create a supersedence relationship with an existing app. This capability eliminates the need to monitor app updates and manually update applications.

The new remote diagnostics feature is designed to simplify the process of getting diagnostics from Microsoft 365 apps running on Android and iOS devices. IT admins can configure this feature by navigating to the Intune admin center >> Tenant administration >> Device diagnostics and setting the ”Diagnostics for Microsoft 365 applications…” option to enabled.

Microsoft Intune Gets New Device Management Capabilities
Remote diagnostics (Image Credits: Microsoft)

Microsoft Intune adds Windows update distribution report

The new Windows update distribution report in Intune provides a summarized report on what quality updates are running on which devices. It consists of three separate organizational reports that offer insights into devices and their associated Windows update versions. To access this feature, IT admins will need to navigate to Reports > Windows Updates > Reports tab > Windows Update Distribution Report.

“The report provides a drill down for each quality update that aggregates devices based on windows 10/11 feature version and the update statuses,” Microsoft explained. “The report includes Intune managed and co-managed devices, and is based on the OS version updated at every device check-in. The report can slice the data based on device scope tags.”

Microsoft Intune Gets New Device Management Capabilities
Windows update distribution report (Image Credits: Microsoft)

Microsoft plans to make some improvements to the Windows update distribution report in the coming months. The company will add new select all and deselect all options in the Scope tags dropdown menu. Microsoft will also introduce additional filters in the managed by managed by and last check-in columns.