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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

Adding additional administrators to Windows Intune


Before we start doing any configuration for Windows Intune, we need to add additional administrators. It is always good practice to have at least two people who can access the administration console in case one person locks themselves out of the system, goes sick, or leaves the business. We may also want to enable a Microsoft partner with good desktop management skills to administer Windows Intune, so again, adding them now makes sense.

Adding an additional administrator

To add additional administrators, follow the ensuing steps:

  1. 1. Start the Windows Intune console by going to https://manage.microsoft.com/.

  2. 2. Select the Administration workspace followed by Administrator Management. There will always be a Tenant Administrator who is the user who signed up to the Windows Intune service. This user has full administrative access to Windows Intune and while they can be displayed within the console, they are not changed here.

  3. 3. Now select Service...