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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

Enabling password-less authentication

To enable password-less authentication, you have to go to the Azure portal and open AAD. Then, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Security.
  2. Open Authentication methods.
  3. Under the Manage menu, select Authentication methods.

    Figure 13.34 – Authentication methods

  4. Click on FIDO2 Security Key.

    Figure 13.35 – Authentication methods – Policies

  5. Enable the settings for (at least) sign-in and strong authentication.

Figure 13.36 – FIDO2 security key configuration

You can also use a key restriction policy to specify what FIDO2 keys your end users can leverage in your tenant, by entering an allow or block list of devices with an Authenticator Attestation GUID (AAGUID).

The FIDO2 specification requires each security key provider to provide an AAGUID during attestation. An AAGUID is a 128-bit identifier indicating the key type, such as the make and model.

You're now done with the...