Windows Intune – part 2. – interfaces/portals. (survival guide)

When you create your Windows Intune subscription, you will be redirected to Admin Portal. At first you have wait few seconds to access to portal

And after loading is finished admin portal is available to you.

Admin portal is central place for your Windows Intune configuration and Management. As you can see Admin Portal is divided in ten groups for easier management. But this isn’t only interface what you have in your Windows Intune.

Second interface is Company Portal.

Company portal is place where you can access to applications made available for you, enroll or retire your device and contact IT support personnel.

Access to application is simple. When You click to application you will have list of available application for you. Administrator can decide about list of application available to specific user.

Now you just need to click on application choose device and select install.

To install application you must have enrolled device. Option to enroll your device is available also in Company portal. Note that you can enroll your device as ordinary user. You don’t have to be Windows Intune administrator to enroll devices. When you click to All My devices you will have screen like this (depends about your enrolled devices).

If you what to enroll your device just click link Enroll your computer, And then in next screen click Download Software.

This will start download of Windows Intune agent and for installing it you must have administrative rights on device.

And if you click Contact IT, you will se name. email address, phone number and web page of IT support. Contact IT also describes how to create Remote Assistance request.

This is two of three Windows Intune portals. If you want to add users, or domains, purchase software, create service request or manage groups you will need to login to Admin Home Page.First two portals is accessible through Windows Intune home page.

 

In right side you have My Account ribbon and when you click on it, ribbon will expand and you will have option to choose on what of first two portals you want to log-in. But to log-in on third portal (Admin Home Page) you will must go to: https://account.manage.microsoft.com/Admin/Default.aspx

From here you will manage your users, groups and domains. In next post I will describe how to add new users and groups to Windows Intune and how to connect your domain to it.

See you until then.