Feedback about Surface Pro devices ?

[mbrody]

Hello Community,

We are about to use Meraki's MDM in my company to manage iOS devices. It suits us well.

We may have to manage Microsoft Surface Pro devices too.
Do you have any feedback on managing these devices ? Is it as easy and complete as iOS devices ?

Thank you for your feedback

[PhilipDAth]

I don't know - but I have had massive problems with Surface Pro 4's and roaming.  They use the crappy Marvell WiFi chipset (I wish Microsoft didn't cheap out in this area).  The driver doesn't follow the standard nicely when you go in and out of coverage for short periods of time.  Microsoft have never released a fix.

On the whole, avoid buying them.

[mbrody]

Thank you for your feedback. We will have to check roaming.

What about devices management : restrictions, settings, pushing applications, ... Is Meraki enough to manage them?

[KevinT]

+1 on avoiding Surface products. We have hundreds of Lenovo T series that work perfectly. Two Surface Books that always had Wi-Fi issues. Until I replaced them, I had to disable 802.11r and 802.11w to get them to play nice.