Microsoft Intune
Am I the only one seeing this information and being surprised I have heard anything about it before? Not even sure how to install it or use it... does anyone have any more information about it?
New Church-provided equipment for a FamilySearch center
Requirements
The Family History Department only considers a center for replacement computers when the center meets these requirements:
- Microsoft Intune must be on all current center computers.
See the knowledge document for full details....
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I was interested on what it actually did besides being a "Big Brother (1984 Reference). I found this >
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/fundamentals/what-is-intune
The instructions originally said it might take up to 2 hours to register, so I started the registration process on all 19 computers at the Richland FamilySearch Center. I have no idea whether or not anything really happened, because I saw no feedback dialogue boxes to say registration was successful or not. I also failed to ask the FamilySearch IT Support Service Missionary who was helping me later to get all our units up to FamilySearch standard about it. That was not my focus. It took two weeks to bring all the units up to speed and I had done the Microsoft Intune registration before enlisting his support.
We have around 8 computers that appear to be at least 12 years old and the "replacement" comment intrigued me. The sister who deployed the Dell boxen from Salt Lake back then, is recent FamilySearch volunteer at our location.
Two units are in storage as "backups", just in case. Those two have not been updated with the tools, etc. yet.
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Still have some questions?
1- What is the purpose of this? For Salt Lake to control the devices... or for the local IT to have more control with sending out apps and such?
2- Who paid for it- I see the license is $8.00- I'm assuming per device and hoping that's per year, not month. We have 40 computers in our center... that's a lot of money. With 1000's of FamilySearch Centers, that seems like a lot of money for all of them to have Intune on them.
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I just looked and we have 4 more computers as backup.
- Salt Lake monitoring.
- Salt Lake pays for it because it is their system.
- Wait until they discover Linux as the OS...oh wait...
40 computers? I hope they are all populated with folks lined up waiting to use them. (I wish)
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Thank you so much for the information! I'll have to check into it some more. This was the first I had heard of Intune and was curious.
I wish as well. We rarely have all 40 in use. But depending on the class being taught, we might have 15-20 in that room being used. And we might have 15 of the ones upstairs being used by consultants and patrons on a good day. We are looking into doing more community outreach to attract more patrons for our center.
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Try school tours from private schools and other religious backgrounds. "We do this as a way to honor our ancestors" approach.
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