Built-in mobile device management now generally available for Office 365 commercial plans!!!

we are pleased to offer the general availability of MDM capabilities for Office 365. With MDM for Office 365, you can manage access to Office 365 data across a diverse range of phones and tablets, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices. And what makes today’s news even better: the built-in MDM features are included at no additional cost in all Office 365 commercial plans, including Business, Enterprise, EDU and Government plans.

These new capabilities help you better manage and protect access to Office 365 data while enabling people to be mobile and productive from anywhere.

 Office 365’s MDM capabilities work to keep your data safe in three ways:

• Conditional Access—You can set up security policies on devices that connect to Office 365 to ensure that Office 365 corporate email and documents can be accessed only on phones and tablets that are managed by your company and are compliant. Behind the scenes, Office 365 leverages Microsoft Intune and the Microsoft Azure Active Directory to deliver this capability. The Conditional Access policies apply to Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other business applications—making management easier for admins while ensuring users can securely work with their preferred productivity applications.

• Device management—You can set and manage security policies such as device-level pin lock and jailbreak detection to help prevent unauthorized users from accessing corporate email and data on a device when it is lost or stolen. Additional settings and rich reporting are also available within the Office 365 admin center so you can gain critical insights about devices accessing your corporate data.

• Selective wipe—You can easily remove Office 365 company data from an employee’s device while leaving their personal data in place. This is an increasingly important requirement as more businesses adopt a “bring your own device” (BYOD) approach to phones and tablets.