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I’m excited to share with you some announcements we’re making today to simplify IT management and bring this vision for the future to life:

• Embrace modern management to manage and secure your devices with the unified Office.com/setup Endpoint Manager.
• Empower organizations with insights that transform how work gets done and drive impact with Office.com/setup Productivity Score.
• Simplify meeting room management with Managed Meeting Rooms service.
• Address app compatibility with the new Microsoft Edge and Windows Virtual Desktop, with an expansion of the Desktop App Assure program.
• Expand your virtualization approach with new options like Linux thin client support with Windows Virtual Desktop.
• Simplify administration with updates to the Office.com/setup 365 admin center and Office 365 Groups.

The future of management: Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Today, System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) and Microsoft Intune are managing 200 million devices. ConfigMgr and Intune provide integrated cloud-powered management tools, and unique co-management options to provision, deploy, manage, and secure endpoints and applications across an organization. Our management vision has not been as simple as it could be. ConfigMgr and Intune have both played a role, but it hasn’t always been clear what the future holds. So, let me be very clear—this vision includes both ConfigMgr and Intune. Co-management isn’t a bridge; it’s a destination.

To make this easier for you as well, we’re also announcing today that we’re simplifying licensing, and we are making the licensing to Intune available to all ConfigMgr customers to co-manage your Windows devices. If you would like to manage non-Windows devices through Office.com/setup Endpoint Manager, you will need to purchase either an Intune license, an Enterprise Mobility & Security (EMS) license, or an Office.com/setup 365 E3 or higher license.

Office.com/setup Endpoint Manager features and experiences will appear in the product over the coming months.

Simplifying meeting room management: Managed Meeting Rooms

Productive meetings are essential to success in the modern workplace. Coupled with the rise in remote collaboration, business leaders increasingly associate more effective meetings with having the right meeting room technology and environment. Today, we’re announcing a private preview of Managed Meeting Rooms from Office.com/setup, a new offer for managing meeting rooms as a service. This service is a cloud-based IT management and security monitoring service that ensures that Teams meeting rooms are secured, up to date, and proactively monitored for a great in-room experience. To date, we’ve been working with more than 100 customers to manage more than 1,500 meeting rooms. The private preview will open this experience to more of you!

If you’re interested in participating in the private preview, you can register your interest.

The future of modern management

I’m really excited about all of today’s announcements. Microsoft Endpoint Manager is a big step forward as we clarify our vision for the future of modern management. Co-management is a destination, and you can get started today by connecting ConfigMgr and Intune, especially now that all ConfigMgr customers have access to Intune for Windows co-management.

Other things you can do today include using App Assure to address any app compatibility concerns you have with moving to Microsoft Edge and Windows Virtual Desktop.

If you’re interested in Office.com/setup managed meeting service, you can register your interest today for the private preview. We’re excited to hear what you think, so please let us know on LinkedIn or Twitter.