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Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0: Quickstart Administration

By : David Overton
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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

Windows Small Business Server


Windows Small Business Server (SBS) is an amazing product that delivers high power capability all squeezed into one system box. Obviously, as the author of a book on SBS, you would expect me to say so, but I really do think that.

The functionality provided by each version of SBS 2011 is not identical, even when limiting to the areas that Windows Intune covers. The following table describes the different versions:

 

SBS 2011 Essentials

SBS 2011 Standard

Windows Server 2008 R2

Yes

Yes

AD

Yes

Yes

WSUS

No

Yes

Group Policy

No

Yes

Management tools

Simple monitoring

Yes

Exchange 2010

No

Yes

SharePoint Foundation

Optional, but not pre-built

Yes

Premium Add-on Services

Optional

Optional

User / PC limit

25

75

SBS 2011 Standard Edition delivers most of the items of functionality that we have just discussed. It has Windows Server 2008 (or 2008 R2 with the 2011 version), Exchange, and SharePoint Services for the collaboration components. It also...