Tracking the hardware that is running in the business and how this changes over time enables us to ensure that we are meeting the legal responsibilities we have, as well as ensuring that we are making the right purchasing decision for the future, and are able to support any hardware installed today.
Understanding the hardware that we are delivering support for enables us to ensure we have the right support contracts and appropriate spare parts available to deliver a reliable computer experience to the users. It also enables us to make decisions about inventory flow down and replacement, as well as to ensure that all the hardware we purchased is still installed in the machine months or years later.
Within Windows Intune, we can track information about the full hardware inventory on a computer-by-computer basis or search for computers that meet a particular specification, perhaps for consideration of replacement or upgrading.
By comparing how this information changes over time...
