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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

Self-service capabilities – IT admin

From within Microsoft Endpoint Manager's Devices menu, IT admins can reboot cloud PCs remotely. The Restart button, which sits next to the Sync button to enforce MDM policy settings to the cloud PC, could also be a useful setting to provide.

Reprovisioning the cloud PC

You could also reprovision your cloud PC via the Reprovisioning button. Your machine will be reprovisioned, meaning that it will start from scratch in the same way as you started it initially, without any customization needing to be installed on the cloud PC.

You can find the Reprovision button under Devices | Overview | Reprovisioning:

Figure 4.18 – Reprovisioning – cleaning your cloud PC

Important Note

You need (at least) cloud PC administrator permissions to be able to do this.

IT admins will get the following notification prompt to confirm that reprovisioning works as an extra safety check:

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