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Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0: Quickstart Administration

By : David Overton
Book Image

Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0: Quickstart Administration

By: David Overton

Overview of this book

Microsoft Windows Intune is a cloud service solution that simplifies how small and mid-sized businesses manage and secure PCs using Microsoft cloud services and Windows 7óso your computers and users can operate at peak performance all the time.This step-by-step guide will show you how to plan, set up and maintain Windows Intune, showing you how to manage a group of PCs (either 1 business or several if a partner) from the base operating system, through to the patches, anti-malware solution and deployed software and policies from a central console, using the Windows Intune service. This book takes you through all the steps to plan, set up and maintain Windows Intune and how to manage a group of PCs. The book starts by providing an overview of Cloud Computing and PC Management. The book then dives into topics such as Windows Intune features, signing up for Windows Intune and installing the client software, configuring Windows Intune, proactive management, and monitoring and dealing with alerts, including remote assistance amongst others. As Windows 7 is part of Windows Intune, the book will also cover the minimum steps required to move from Windows XP to Windows 7 while keeping user settings and preferences.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0: Quickstart Administration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Building a DaRT CD


The DaRT is now installed on the administrator's computer. There are two tools installed; the Crash Analyzer Wizard that will help diagnose the memory dump files when a computer blue screens, and the ERD Commander Boot Media Wizard that builds the CD/DVD that is used to boot a problem user's computer.

Since we want to use the toolset on a problem computer, we will use the ERD tool. You will also need your Windows 7 DVD that matches the same processor architecture as the version of Windows you are using. This means a 64-bit DVD, if you are running a 64-bit version of Windows on the computer that is building the CD/DVD.

Once you have your Windows DVD and are ready to build the recover toolset, follow these steps:

  1. 1. Run the ERD Commander Boot Media Wizard program from the start menu.

  2. 2. You will be presented with a UAC prompt, we have to click the Yes button to proceed with the tool.

  3. 3. Press Next to move to the next screen.

  4. 4. Press the Browse button to select the location of...