“The long and short of it is, what Redmond wants is what Redmond gets when it finally puts a foot down, like it appears to have in this case,” said Shipley.
This deadline shouldn’t come as a surprise to IT teams who stayed on top of things, noted Fritz Jean-Louis, principal cybersecurity advisor at Info-Tech Research Group. Microsoft has been deprecating various parts of Intune, and how it connects from an infrastructure perspective, for some time now.
“Like many other things, if you’re not actively managing [with] the right amount of due diligence, you will be impacted by this,” said Jean-Louis, noting that employees dealing with work tasks on their phones (either remotely or on-premises) will experience outages without the updates. “It’s going to seriously impact users if this has not been adequately addressed.”
