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Understanding the Enterprise Mobility Suite

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Wes Miller

Wes Miller analyzes and writes about Microsoft’s security, identity management, and systems management technologies. Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Wes... more

The Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) bundles three Microsoft-hosted services for managing identities, devices, applications, and information. EMS includes User Subscription Licenses for Azure Active Directory (AAD) Premium, Microsoft Intune, and Azure Rights Management (RM). It offers technical advantages over Microsoft’s on-premises management software and subsets of each of the services included in Office 365. It also offers a significant discount over separately purchasing its three component services. However, it requires significant planning and work to integrate AAD with an organization’s directory and to benefit from each of the services.

EMS Fundamentals

EMS offers a bundle of three Microsoft-hosted services, each of which are available independently but offered at a significant discount when bundled together into EMS.

Directory, Management, and Portable Content Protection

The three services EMS includes are as follows:

  • AAD Premium is a scalable, multitenant directory service

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