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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

Autopilot and cloud PCs – lightweight thin client (Kiosk)

The great thing about the combined capabilities of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Autopilot, and Windows 365 is that you can configure both physical and virtual MEM-managed endpoints.

For example, within Autopilot, you can configure a multi-app Kiosk type of Surface Go, a thin client that only populates the Remote Desktop client. Full configuration and enrollment happens without user interaction and when the client is done, the end user only has to log in with their Azure AD credentials to get access to their cloud PC!

Within the Device configuration profile that you attached, for example, to your lightweight thin client, you can configure the auto-launching capability of the Remote Desktop Win32 or Store application to make the experience more awesome:

Figure 4.69 – Configuring Kiosk mode profiles

However, that's not all we can do.

When combining this setting with the settings...