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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

Configuring computer groups


All computers belong to groups that assist with managing them. Policy settings, reporting, and alerts can be viewed or changed by groups, so it is important to consider the groupings and configure them appropriately for these tasks. One very nice feature of Windows Intune is that a PC can belong to multiple groups and therefore, you can have multiple group hierarchies, one for reporting, one for policies, and so on.

By default, PCs are assigned to two groups: the All Computers and the Unassigned Computers groups. To manage the computer’s membership to groups, we need to do the following:

  • Choose a group structure

  • Create the group structure

  • Assign PCs to groups

Choosing a group structure

For smaller organizations, I would recommend creating a singular group infrastructure. However, for larger organizations where reporting becomes more critical, we should consider PC management and reporting separately.

This structure has no bearing on any other Microsoft tools you...