When ConfigMgr releases to customers, it will no longer contain a yearly designation.

On Monday of this week, I had a discussion with Microsoft’s Senior Director of Enterprise Mobility, Andrew Conway, to get the full view of what’s coming and what’s changing. ConfigMgr has a conduit to the cloud through Microsoft Intune integration, but that’s about it. There’s the products that are cloud-enabled and then there’s ConfigMgr. Additionally, as many System Center customers have noticed, there seems to be two very different – almost segmented – sides to System Center. And, when you take a step back and watch what Microsoft is doing with all its other products, it now seems out of place.

But, as such – in a cloud-frenzied world – being considered solely an on-premises solution has its drawbacks. ConfigMgr is still the undisputed king and market leader for on-premises endpoint management. The next version of System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) has been in beta testing for some time and Microsoft continues to deliver on promises of new features and capabilities.

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