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Citrix Synergy 2019

Citrix, Microsoft Align on DaaS, Plan Intune Endpoint API Integration

  • Written by Jeffrey Schwartz
  • May 24, 2019
These longtime alliance partners presented a unified front.

(Pictured above on stage Citrix Synergy 2019 are Citrix’s Brad Anderson and Microsoft’s PJ Hough.)

CITRIX SYNERGY — Citrix and Microsoft have extended their decades-long partnership with plans to release several new Windows desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offerings and an agreement to go deeper on the integration of Microsoft’s proprietary Intune management APIs with the Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM) platform.

Brad Anderson, corporate VP overseeing the Microsoft 365 platform, joined Citrix executive VP and chief product officer PJ Hough on stage during the opening session of this annual week’s Citrix Synergy conference in Atlanta, where the two outlined several product development and go-to-market initiatives.

Microsoft, which already has shared some of its Intune APIs with Citrix and others, will add the endpoint security interfaces into CEM, the newly christened Citrix XenMobile platform. The added APIs will let Citrix CEM use the conditional access and other endpoint security features built into Intune, a key component of the Microsoft 365 cloud service platform, which includes Windows 10 and Office 365 licenses, among other options.

The integration will let managed service providers (MSPs) and customers with both Microsoft 365 and Citrix CEM use the Intune functions within the Citrix Endpoint Management platform for remote mobile endpoint management, building on the mobile application management (MAM) integration added last year. Anderson noted that 100 million devices are now licensed for Intune management, which he claimed makes it the most widely used cloud-based endpoint management service.

“We’re building a new API into Intune that will allow solutions like XenMobile to be able to send information in the cloud model that we will then be able to take and use as we determine the trust level of a device,” Anderson said of Microsoft’s plan to integrate the endpoint security interfaces with CEM. “And so, a XenMobile MDM-managed device is now going to be able to send telemetry into Intune to combine that with other data sets, and then flow into the rest of the Microsoft 365.”

The addition of the Intune endpoint management APIs into CEM is a natural extension of the integration of the MAM interfaces, said Bob O’Donnell, founder and principal analyst at Technalysis Research.

“It’s about being able to extend the reach of these tools to a wider, that’s a wider variety of physical devices,” O’Donnell said. “In today’s environments, there’s an enormous range of physical devices, and even broader range of applications and services and it’s challenging to manage these in a uniform [manner]. There’s a lot of fancy plumbing involved with this.”

Meanwhile, both companies signaled that they are on the same page with Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), the forthcoming hosted VDI service that partners will be able to add to their managed service portfolios. While the introduction of Microsoft’s Azure-based Windows DaaS offering last September raised the specter that it may undercut Citrix’s existing virtual desktop and application services, the longtime alliance partners presented a unified front.

“This is a big innovation and it’s great to see the capabilities that you’re going to deliver natively for Windows running in Azure,” Hough said to Anderson. “And we’re just going to support that as a new type of deployment that you can manage from Citrix Cloud along with our other apps and desktop solutions.”

WVD, now in preview, introduces Azure-based multisession Windows 10 support as a service. Until now, Windows 10 multisession operation was restricted to Windows Server Remote Desktop Services (RDS). WVD will also support the digital workspace environment and …

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