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Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager

By : Christiaan Brinkhoff, Per Larsen
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Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager

5 (1)
By: Christiaan Brinkhoff, Per Larsen

Overview of this book

Microsoft Modern Workplace solutions can simplify the management layer of your environment remarkably if you take the time to understand and implement them. With this book, you’ll learn everything you need to know to make the shift to Modern Workplace, running Windows 10, Windows 11, or Windows 365. Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager explains various concepts in detail to give you the clarity to plan how to use Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) and eliminate potential migration challenges beforehand. You'll get to grips with using new services such as Windows 365 Cloud PC, Windows Autopilot, profile management, monitoring and analytics, and Universal Print. The book will take you through the latest features and new Microsoft cloud services to help you to get to grips with the fundamentals of MEM and understand which services you can manage. Whether you are talking about physical or cloud endpoints—it’s all covered. By the end of the book, you'll be able to set up MEM and use it to run Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows 365 efficiently.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding the Basics
4
Section 2: Windows 365
7
Section 3: Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager
19
Section 4: Tips and Tricks from the Field

Edge kiosk self-deployment scenario

From Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium, is built into the OS delivered. This scenario will cover how to configure Microsoft Edge in kiosk mode for a single app with Microsoft Endpoint Manager:

  1. Upload Autopilot devices with a group tag such as EdgeKIOSK.
  2. Create a specific ESP for the Edge kiosk.
  3. Create a Windows Autopilot profile.
  4. Create some profiles that can benefit the kiosk scenario.
  5. Create a kiosk profile.

Creating a specific ESP for the Edge kiosk

A kiosk device can be userless, and by using Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode, no user has to sign in when onboarding the device into AAD or Microsoft Intune, so we will create an ESP and assign it to the Autopilot group for this specific scenario.

Create an ESP with the settings you prefer:

Figure 7.31 – Creating an ESP for the Edge kiosk

Assign it to the AAD All Autopilot KIOSK dynamic group, which will disregard...