Best Strategy for Managing Laptops in a Mixed InTune / SCCM 2012 World

We're interested in leveraging Intune to help secure and update our roaming laptop users. We have a group of domain-joined laptops that spend a good deal of time off the company network. We thought we could use Intune to make sure these machines stay updated
and safe while off the network. I understand that we should make sure the SCCM 2012 client does not get installed on any machine that has the Intune client. Will connecting and logging into our domain cause any issues for these clients that anyone can see?
Orange County District Attorney

I'm glad that it should work in our instance. Our office just bought some Office 365 licenses as well as Intune. We thought Intune could solve our issue of roaming laptops. We just recently came into some laptops that would be our first, out-of-the-office
work systems that we want to manage. The Microsoft folks are assuring us this is the way to go for this particular instance. We haven't had a need to use IBCM or DirectAccess up to this point. We've run into issues with our County firewall folks that
won't let us run DirectAccess as we do have a Juniper VPN that takes care of our remote issues. As for IBCM, we'll have to look a bit deeper into that and see if it has better features for us than Intune does. We don't have any mobile management requirements
in the near future so I'm left wondering why the heck are management even bought the licenses.
Thanks for the note back on my question.
Orange County District Attorney

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