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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators

By : Richard Diver, Manuel Singer, Jeff Stokes
Book Image

Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators

By: Richard Diver, Manuel Singer, Jeff Stokes

Overview of this book

Microsoft's launch of Windows 10 is a step toward satisfying enterprise administrators' needs for management and user experience customization. This book provides enterprise administrators with the knowledge needed to fully utilize the advanced feature set of Windows 10 Enterprise. This practical guide shows Windows 10 from an administrator's point of view. You'll focus on areas such as installation and configuration techniques based on your enterprise requirements, various deployment scenarios and management strategies, and setting up and managing admin and other user accounts. You'll see how to configure Remote Server Administration Tools to remotely manage Windows Server and Azure Active Directory. Lastly, you will learn modern mobile device management for effective BYOD and how to enable enhanced data protection, system hardening, and enterprise-level security with the new Windows 10 in order to prevent data breaches and to impede attacks. By the end of this book, you will know the key technologies and capabilities in Windows 10 and will confidently be able to manage and deploy these features in your organization.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Hyper-V improvements

The Hyper-V configuration version was increased to 8.2, and with that increase there are some new features within Hyper-V in the Fall Creators Update.

  • Virtual battery support for Hyper-V: When using Hyper-V on laptops, your guest OS was always agnostic about the state of your battery. Hyper-V can now expose a virtual battery to virtual machines. When enabled, you can see your host computer’s battery power state inside your guest virtual machines.
  • New Hyper-V easy export: Exporting a virtual machine Hyper-V no longer uses an XML file for configuration information since 1703 but the new binary VMCX file. The improved VMCX file now includes information about network configuration also, and you can easily import VMs now with the use of the VMCX, including the necessary virtual switch configuration. This VMCX feature is also used for the new sharing feature...