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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

Policy management


Policy management is the creation of policies and then the application of those policies onto one or more computer groups. The three areas are:

  • Windows Firewall Settings

  • Windows Intune Center Settings

  • Windows Intune Agent Settings

The groups are those we created earlier and policies can be applied to multiple groups. If we also have Active Directory Group Policy, this will override policy settings in Windows Intune.

Policies are updated on client computers with the check for system updates, so until a computer connects to the Internet and checks for updates, policies will not be distributed.

If we have multiple policies that apply to a computer and there are conflicts, there are two rules that govern the final policy settings. These rules are as follows:

  • Policies closest to the computer (that is,. inherited through the groups tree) win over those above them

  • When two policy settings are both as "close", the newest policy wins

In the following example, all computers have...