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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

Configuring administrative templates

Administrative templates include thousands of settings that control features in Microsoft Edge version 77 and later, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Remote Desktop, OneDrive, passwords, PINs, and more. These settings allow IT pro administrators to manage group policies using Microsoft Intune in the cloud.

The Windows settings are GPO settings that you already know about from Active Directory (AD). These settings, which are built into Windows, are ADMX-backed settings that use XML. The Office and Microsoft Edge settings are ADMX-ingested and use the ADMX settings in Office administrative template files and Microsoft Edge administrative template files.

Administrative Templates are built into Intune and do not require a custom policy with OMA-URI. This is still necessary for third-party ADMX policies, and this will be covered later in this chapter. As part of your Microsoft Intune solution, use these template settings as a one-stop-shop...