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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

Windows Intune feature set


There are two viewpoints that can be used to group the Windows Intune functionality. The first is by individual technical feature to ensure that all usable elements of Windows Intune are known. Later we will examine the administration tasks that we need to carry out in order to manage our PC deployments. We are exploring both viewpoints as my experience tells me that useful features can be missed if examined from only one perspective. I have seen a number of customers and partners waste money, time and effort by purchasing and implementing additional technologies when they are already provided with a product like Windows Intune.

The Windows Intune technical feature set can be broken down into the following areas:

  • Windows 7

  • Installation

  • Management console

  • Security management

  • Auditing

  • Reporting

  • Alerts and Support

  • Software distribution

  • Managing multiple organizations

Windows 7

As mentioned, many organizations are not running Windows 7, or do not have the Enterprise Edition...