


If you want to manage non-Windows devices via Microsoft Endpoint Manager you do still need a separate Intune licence (which you can get on its own, as part of the Enterprise Mobility & Security licence or as part of a Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 licence).
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Licensing is also much clearer: if you already have Config Manager licences, they now cover co-managing Windows devices through Intune (or rather, through the cloud service in Microsoft Endpoint Manager) to get features like analytics, conditional access and management beyond the firewall, without needing any extra licences. If you want to keep Using Config Manager because you have solutions built on it, or you need management options that Intune doesn't have, Microsoft wants you to keep on using Config Manager - but to add on the extra features that the cloud connection can bring. The new name was picked because it lets Microsoft add new options to the management platform - Anderson emphasised that "any endpoint can be managed" - and to avoid the appearance that either the cloud or on-premises management approach had 'won' by reusing either of the existing names. "But what I came to realise over the last year is that while I think about Config Manager and Intune as one, there were all these things that got in the way of our customers thinking about them as one - branding, licencing and product," he said.
