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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

Anti-malware products


While not all anti-malware products are made by Microsoft, there is an interesting process that is executed by Windows Intune to decide whether to install the Windows Intune Endpoint Protection software on a client computer or not. The process is described by the flow chart shown as follows:

The process ensures that a computer is never left without anti-malware protection. If a computer has no anti-malware, or has Microsoft Security Essentials, or Forefront Endpoint Protection, then an upgrade is carried out to Windows Intune Endpoint Protection.

If it has another anti-malware tool, then this will be removed and Windows Intune Endpoint Protection will be installed if the policy explicitly says to install the product. If not, then the existing anti-malware solution will be left in place. It is worth stating again though that Windows Intune can only provide alerts and manage via policy if the Windows Intune Endpoint Protection is installed.