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Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0: Quickstart Administration

By : David Overton
Book Image

Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0: Quickstart Administration

By: David Overton

Overview of this book

Microsoft Windows Intune is a cloud service solution that simplifies how small and mid-sized businesses manage and secure PCs using Microsoft cloud services and Windows 7óso your computers and users can operate at peak performance all the time.This step-by-step guide will show you how to plan, set up and maintain Windows Intune, showing you how to manage a group of PCs (either 1 business or several if a partner) from the base operating system, through to the patches, anti-malware solution and deployed software and policies from a central console, using the Windows Intune service. This book takes you through all the steps to plan, set up and maintain Windows Intune and how to manage a group of PCs. The book starts by providing an overview of Cloud Computing and PC Management. The book then dives into topics such as Windows Intune features, signing up for Windows Intune and installing the client software, configuring Windows Intune, proactive management, and monitoring and dealing with alerts, including remote assistance amongst others. As Windows 7 is part of Windows Intune, the book will also cover the minimum steps required to move from Windows XP to Windows 7 while keeping user settings and preferences.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0: Quickstart Administration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

System Center


System Center is the Microsoft umbrella brand for its management products. The tools behind Windows Intune are from System Center, so there is definitely an overlap. Windows Intune is a small subset of the functionality provided by System Center. System Center has not just the capability to manage and secure the desktop, but also back it up, deploy applications, and much more. System Center also manages all other Microsoft products, so it really does cover a much bigger target area than just the desktop.

The only time when Windows Intune and System Center being mixed together makes sense is when we are managing desktops that are not connected to the corporate domain or do not have access the corporate network. If this is not the case, it is unlikely we will mix these products on the same computer.

More information on System Center can be found at http://davidoverton.com/r.ashx?2K.

While Windows Intune is strictly aimed at policy and update management of Windows desktop computers...