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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

What is MSIX?

MSIX is a Windows app package format that provides a modern packaging experience to all Win32, UWP, and Windows apps. It's a new way of doing application virtualization compared to technologies such as App-V.

Separating the applications from the images to update and assign applications without doing an image update sounds like a solution, right? Well, that's exactly what MSIX can accomplish. Let me explain how you could package an application here:

  1. Declarative install via the manifest file.
  2. The app signature needs to be trusted on the device.
  3. Tamper protection via BlockMap and signature.
  4. The OS manages the installation, updates, and removal:

Figure 8.64 – MSIX package

AppxManifest.xml

The package manifest is an XML document that contains the information the system needs to deploy, display, and update an MSIX app. This info includes package identity, package dependencies, required capabilities, visual...