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Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide

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Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide

Overview of this book

The Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide is designed to confirm what you already know, while also updating your knowledge of Windows 10. With its easy-to-follow guidance, you will quickly learn the user interface and discover steps to work efficiently in Windows 10 to rule out delays and obstacles. This book begins by covering various ways of installing Windows 10, followed by instructions on post-installation tasks. You will learn about the deployment of Windows 10 in Enterprise and also see how to configure networking in Windows 10. You’ll understand how to leverage Disk Management and Windows PowerShell to configure disks, volumes, and file system options. As you progress through the chapters, you will be able to set up remote management in Windows 10 and learn more about Windows update usage, behavior, and settings. You will also gain insights that will help you monitor and manage data recovery and explore how to configure authentication, authorization, and advanced management tools in Windows 10. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with enough knowledge to take the 70-698 exam and explore different study methods to improve your chances of passing the exam with ease.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Provisioning with the Windows Configuration Designer tool


The Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) is the first-run setup experience that enables the configuration of Windows 10 devices purchased from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). Connecting to a network, joining a domain, and creating an account, are just some of the settings that need to be configured during the first-run setup experience. The grouping of these and many other tasks together is known as provisioning, which represents a task to configure end-user devices. In this way, Windows provisioning makes it easy for system administrators to specify desired configuration and settings, thereby configuring devices in a matter of minutes. A provisioning package, .ppkg, is a file that contains configuration settings.However, Windows provisioning does not remove the software pre-installed by the manufacturers that is commonly known as bloatware. Because of that, organizations frequently prefer to employ the wipe and load method, where...