Microsoft introduced its "Microsoft 365" bundle of Windows 10, Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility + Security last summer. It really is only now -- following company's the latest reorg and with the rollout of these Windows 10 April 2018 Update that you should becoming an integrated product on its own.

That's reported by Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson, who after last month's major Windows reorg, will now be handling Microsoft 365 deployment all-up, in addition to taking the lead on Windows 10 within a enterprise. (Anderson is part of Executive Vice President of Executive Vice chairman Rajesh Jha's Experiences & Devices team.)

Simultaneous with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, which can become the crux about the Windows component Microsoft 365, Microsoft is adding other new tools and capabilities that may make integrated provisioning, deployment and compliance part of the Microsoft 365 experience.

"We're running Microsoft 365 now just like a product," Anderson told me this week. "We will perform a lot of integration over a back end. Cannot this is all (Microsoft 365) cloud services, we are truly deliver these end-to-end scenarios. plus provide insights in the cloud."

Starting Monday April 30, which happens to be when the Windows 10 April 2018 Update begins, Microsoft will be taking development of the delivery optimization enhancements which happen to be part of that release. Via Delivery Optimization, administrators have the option to download the update for a passing fancy device and then develop company's local network to send the update to other machines with a purpose to reduce bandwidth (approximately 90 percent, Microsoft claims).

Coupling Delivery Optimization with Windows Analytics provide pros the ability to monitor the delivery status within the update, in order to know how many devices already have it and how the rollout is progressing.

IT professionals who use System Center Configuration Manager could possibly get even more granular information. The current 1802 release of ConfigMgr allows IT pros to complete their own internal phased deployment rings, to ensure after a first group of PCs get Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus updates, IT pros can automatically initiate an upcoming group for getting it once they've verified the downloads were successful.

Also simultaneous when the windows are 10 April 2018 Update, Microsoft is turning on the Windows 10 Enterprise S Mode functionality it announced during 2009 at its Ignite IT pro conference. The precise to run Enterprise in S mode could possibly be deployed on PCs to get firstline/customer service workers and the running "kiosks," or task-based devices. Microsoft has developed what it's calling the "Microsoft Kiosk browser" who's built above Microsoft Edge, which could be available from the Microsoft Store, use a full-screen browsing option.

Windows 10 Enterprise in S Mode provides pros access to Credential Guard, Application Guard, centralized handling of the Microsoft Store and additional features.

During a Microsoft 365 subscription, IT pros can even provide firstline workers with access to the full Office Mobile applications for iOS and Android, rather than just the web versions of apps. (Microsoft is adding the ability to use the full Office Mobile apps to its Office 365 E1, F1 and Business Essentials SKUs, starting today, from support for Outlook Mobile, and extending to Word, PowerPoint and Excel "over our summer."

Other Microsoft 365 enhancements coinciding with the Windows 10 April 2018 update:

Windows AutoPilot now includes an enrollment page permits admins to set policies, apps, settings, etc. before the user starts along with the device. Lenovo, Dell and HP already purchased announced wants to incorporate AutoPilot in new devices; others piling on include Toshiba, Panasonic and Fujitsu (at the fall).
A new Application Health Analyzer (AHA) tool, which can sometimes check for dependencies of companies' internally developed apps make certain they are appropriate Windows 10 updates. By any means . available in public preview "in the approaching months," officials said.
A new common admin center in which together Office 365 and Microsoft 365
Built-in Security and Compliance Center

Microsoft's newest pitch isn't to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10. It really is to upgrade Windows 7 (which support leads to 2020) to Microsoft 365. To perform hear many more about this for the coming months.