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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)

Security Compliance Manager

For those concerned with security, Microsoft has had the Security Compliance Manager (SCM) for some time. This tool lets you take trusted secure baseline configurations from https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework, Microsoft, and others and make them into group policies that you can import into your environment. Generally speaking, using this tool to securely configure your environment is preferred rather than going off into the woods on your own. The reasons for this are:

  • The guidelines are created by expert security entities and professionals.
  • When you have trouble and have to get support, is it better to say we followed the SCM template for secure desktops or we did a bunch of tweaks to the registry and security settings and now it doesn't work. The list of baselines is pretty comprehensive (Windows 10 is in the works at the time of writing and...