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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

Auto-subscribing users in the Remote Desktop client

Note that the following setting only works on Windows 11 as an endpoint and will be backported to Windows 10 soon. There's a chance that when you read this book, the feature will already be available!

Once you have configured the ability to enroll the Remote Desktop client to your Windows 10 endpoints, you have performed the most fundamental step. However, if you stop here, the user who opens the app will be prompted to log in with their Azure AD credentials first before you see your cloud PC(s) to start the session.

This section explains how you can auto-subscribe users to the Remote Desktop (MSRDC/Store) application without the need to enter credentials!

The settings that make this way of logging on possible have to be implemented via Device | Configuration profiles, via the Settings Catalog feature. The steps are as follows:

  1. First, open the Devices menu and create a new profile (for Windows 10 and later):

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