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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

Deploying Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams will be installed as a machine-wide installer via the aforementioned Microsoft 365 apps settings. It's good to mention that Teams is a per-user basis application. The Microsoft 365 setup will add the installer to your Windows 10 Enterprise endpoints and will auto-install when a new user logs on to the endpoint. Teams will then install inside the user profile.

Inside the Microsoft 365 apps settings in Microsoft Intune, you can select Teams to be installed alongside the rest of the apps:

Figure 8.58 – App suite information

The Teams application is updated every 2 weeks after testing through internal update programs such as the Technology Adoption Program (TAP).

The machine-wide desktop app, which is installed inside the user profile, is updated automatically and doesn't require any user or IT admin interaction to do so.

You could also manually update the Teams app via the three-dot menu...