Book Image

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)

Mobile device management

When discussing MDM, we need to look back in time to understand its origin and some of its limitations. Back in June 2002, the non-profit organization Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) formed (for more information visit http://openmobilealliance.org/about-omawas). The OMA Device Management (OMA DM) specification was originally designed for the management of mobile devices like mobile phones, tablets, and PDAs (for more information visit http://openmobilealliance.org/about-oma/work-program/device-management). It was intended to provision and configure devices and enable software updates and fault management. There is a fixed set of OMA DM protocol commands all vendors support. Currently, Windows 10 1607 and higher supports MDM protocol version 6.0 (for more information visit https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn392112.aspx).

MDM configuration objects are...