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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

Preparing an application for uploading


Before an application can be deployed by Windows Intune, it needs to be prepared to ensure correct installation. These steps are:

  • Understand how the application is installed in silent or quiet mode

  • Create a folder for each installation package

  • Place all files needed for installation into one folder

To explain this, I will work through some examples from Microsoft, Intel, and Adobe.

Understand how the application is installed in silent or quiet mode

This is probably the most important step. The applications installed by Windows Intune do not interact with the user as part of the install process. For this reason, understanding how to make this work for each package is vital. If the file can be distributed as a Microsoft Installer package (files with a MSI extension), then there is a switch already built into the install process.

Note

One important additional advantage of MSI-based installs is that they can be uninstalled by Windows Intune. EXE installs cannot...