Account Portal

The Intune account portal lets you manage your Intune subscription and specify who has access to Intune. The account portal lets you manage the service and your users: add user accounts and security groups, set and manage service settings, and check the status of the Intune service. You can also contact Microsoft Technical Support and get help from members of the Microsoft online community. Users can access the account portal to change their password.

Administrator console:

workspace "Overview"

Allows you to quickly assess the performance of managed devices in the organization. Main tasks:

• view a summary of the main types of alerts;
  
• check the health of the system in several key areas;
  
• view a summary of managed devices;
  
• create a new group of devices or users;
  
• view report.
  

If a problem occurs in the affected area, links are displayed that allow you to immediately jump to the appropriate work area and resolve the problem.

Administrator console:

workspaces "All users"
And
"All devices"

These workspaces allow you to manage devices and users by organizing them into groups. You can organize groups according to your organization's needs (for example, by geography, department, or hardware characteristics). A device or user can belong to multiple groups.

Administrator console.

Workspace "Updates"

Effectively manage software updates for all managed devices in the organization. Key tasks:

• view pending updates;
  
• approve or reject updates;
  
• configure automatic approval settings for updates;
  
• Set a deadline for installing the update.
  

Administrator console:

workspace "Protection"

Helps improve the security of all managed computers in your organization by:

• providing real-time protection against potential threats;
  
• updating malware definitions;
  
• automatically performing scheduled checks.
  

This workspace provides Endpoint Protection status summaries that help you quickly identify infected or unprotected managed computers and take appropriate action.

Administrator console.

Workspace "Notifications"

Quickly assess the overall health of managed computers in the organization. React to problems to prevent or minimize negative impact on business operations. For example, an administrator can:

• View all recent alerts to get an overview of the health of all managed devices;
  
• investigate specific issues that occur with members of specific groups of managed devices (or in specific workspaces, such as Endpoint Protection );
  
• Use filters to view all alerts with a certain severity level, and view a list of active or closed alerts;
  
• Notify relevant users about alerts by using alert notification rules to send email notifications through Intune about specific types of notifications.
  

Administrator console.

Workspace "Programs"

Discover and manage software for all managed devices. In this workspace, you can:

• obtain inventory data on all software installed on computers (not available for mobile devices);
  
• distribute software to computers, including the ability to make certain programs mandatory for installation (and install them without user intervention);
  
• deploy managed software packages;
  
• follow a link to a web app or an app in the Windows Store for Windows, Windows RT, Windows Phone 8, and Windows Phone 8.1 platforms; follow a link to an app in the iTunes Store for iOS; or follow a link to an app in Google Play for the Android platform;
  
• search, sort and filter the list of managed or discovered software.
  

Administrator console.

Workspace "Licenses"

Add and manage license agreement information for software acquired through Microsoft Volume Licensing agreements and for Microsoft and third-party software acquired through other means. In this workspace, you can:

• enter and manage licenses;
  
• Compare the set of Microsoft licenses in your workspace with software inventory data found on managed computers;
  
• Create license reports to track software installations and license counts.
  

Administrator console.

Workspace "Politics"

Set options that control software updates, Endpoint Protection settings, Windows Firewall, and security settings on mobile devices.

Administrator console.

Workspace "Reports"

Run reports that provide information about software and hardware and software licenses in your organization.

Administrator console.

Workspace "Administration"

View details about your Intune account, such as your account name, status, and number of active seats. In this workspace, you can manage:

• Updates: Select the products you want to manage updates for and define the types of updates you want to manage.
  
• Alerts and Notifications: Enable important alert types, disable those that are not important to your environment, set thresholds for alert types to be notified when the threshold is reached or exceeded, and notify you and others of alerts via email.
  
• Manage administrators: Assign service administrators who have permissions to view or change settings in the admin console, and assign tenant administrators who have the same permissions as service administrators and can manage administrator accounts in the Intune account portal.
  
• Download the client software. Deploy the Intune client software manually or automatically.
  
• Storage Usage: Manage your Intune cloud storage usage, which is used to distribute software to your PCs.
  
• Mobile Device Management: Set up Intune to directly manage mobile devices in your organization.
  
• Company Portal: Configure Intune to display specific information about your organization, including your organization name, IT help desk contact information, and URLs for your privacy statement and internal support website.