Microsoft announces Intune for Education

At the BETT conference in London today, Microsoft announced Intune for Education, a cloud-based application and device management service that is built on the proven Microsoft Intune service, offering easy setup and management in shared learning environments. This new service makes it easy for either IT admins, or teachers playing the role of IT in the classroom, to get up-and-running in minutes on Windows 10 devices and easily manage shared devices. It comes with the following features tailored for education environemnt.

• The express setup feature in Intune for Education makes it easy to set up default policies for all the devices and users in a class, school or district in a matter of minutes. Schools can customize over 150 granular settings, assign them to a student and apply them to hardware, apps, browsers, the start menu, Windows Defender and more. These settings follow the user to any device when they sign in.
• To manage just a few devices, admins or teachers can automatically enroll in Intune for Education by logging in with an Office 365 Education email account. When there are many devices to set up, they can use the “set up School PC” app to set up any number of Windows 10 devices. The first time a teacher or student logs in to the new device, it is customized for their unique needs.
• Intune for Education makes it easy to assign and deploy any combination of web apps or education apps from the Windows Store for Business. Once apps are customized, they are available to users at their next login and follow them to any device, so students and teachers always see the apps they are supposed to see, and no apps they shouldn’t.

Intune for Education will be available in preview in the coming weeks and broadly available this spring for $30 per device, and via volume licensing. Learn more about Intune for Education here.