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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

Deploying a package


We now have all our packages uploaded to Windows Intune. By selecting Managed Software in the Software workspace, we can see all the uploaded packages and the statistics on installations, failures, and pending installs.

To deploy a package, select the package or packages and then click on the Deploy button.

We now have to select which groups will have the software deployed to them and when the package must be installed by. In the following example, I am deploying all company-owned machines that are not in a home environment:

Click on OK and the installation of the packages will be scheduled.

When we return to the Managed Software page, we can see in the following screenshot that the packages are in various states of installation. We can see that two of the packages have Installed on 1 machine and that 1 has Failed with two more machines with Pending installations. We can also see that 3 machines are flagged as Not Meeting Requirements, so will not have the application...