Foreword
Of all the books you’ll read about the Enterprise Mobility Suite, this one is probably the first. In my opinion, it is also the most comprehensive to date.
Enterprise Mobility Management—the thing that EMS so brilliantly supports and empowers—is one of today’s defining trends, and it is the core area of focus for some of the most brilliant software architects and developers in the tech industry. The reason is obvious: No other technological development will have a greater impact on the way we live and work than our current device ubiquity.
From an IT perspective, the number of devices your users want to use, the volume of data they access, and protecting those corporate assets (and the end users themselves) are just a handful of the incredibly serious issues you must face every day. This reality is what makes EMS so exciting; it represents the intersection of great software architects with the IT teams working on the front lines of organizations all over the world. With this cloud-based technology, and by leveraging things like Machine Learning from the cloud, the feedback loop is faster than ever. Now you can enable your users in ways you never have been able to in the past.
In this book you’ll see—in practical terms and examples—how to make these devices and the people using them dramatically more productive, more connected, and more secure. From the back end of your infrastructure (Microsoft Intune, Azure Active Directory Premium, Azure AD RMS) to the apps your end users interact with every day (Office 365), EMS is an incredibly sophisticated set of tools that dramatically simplify many previously intractable technical challenges.
The Enterprise Mobility Suite is where I believe a cloud-first, mobile-first perspective really takes shape. The speed of business, the constant movement of workers and data, and the need to keep innovating are all delivered with the entirely service-based solutions offered by the EMS. It’s powerful, reliable, and offers you the cross-platform functionality that’s required to help you successfully and optimistically bridge your organization’s past and future.
Jeff and Yuri have spent an exhaustive amount of time with every corner of the Enterprise Mobility Suite, and this book will prepare you to use it to solve the unique challenges your organization is facing today—and to plan ahead for your organization’s long-term success.
Brad
Brad Anderson, Microsoft Corporate VP, Enterprise Client & Mobility,