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Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager

By : Christiaan Brinkhoff, Per Larsen
5 (1)
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

Customizing your baselines

Change your baselines to your own values via the Settings menu, as you could have higher or lower principles as the default settings. This would allow organizations to adjust the scorings to standards that match the expectations of their environment and applications.

Baselines define the score and whether indicators show up in green or red in Endpoint analytics. Be careful when defining your own baselines to ensure the quality and performance level of your Windows 10 physical and cloud PCs.

You can see in the following screenshot how you can change the baseline regression thresholds. You can find this setting under Endpoint analytics | Settings.

Figure 14.20 – Changing the baselines

Proactive remediations

Another great benefit of using Endpoint analytics is that you can create and run script packages on devices to proactively find and fix the top support issues in your organization.

For example, you can create...