Design and implement a secure end-to-end desktop management solution with Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Key Features

• Learn everything you need to know about deploying and managing Windows on physical and cloud PCs
• Simplify remote working for cloud-managed cloud PCs via new service Windows 365
• Benefit from the authors' experience of managing physical endpoints and traditional virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI)

Book Description

Microsoft Modern Workplace solutions can simplify the management layer of your environment remarkably if you take the time to understand and implement them. With this book, you'll learn everything you need to know to make the shift to Modern Workplace, running Windows 10, Windows 11, or Windows 365.

Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager explains various concepts in detail to give you the clarity to plan how to use Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) and eliminate potential migration challenges beforehand. You'll get to grips with using new services such as Windows 365 Cloud PC, Windows Autopilot, profile management, monitoring and analytics, and Universal Print. The book will take you through the latest features and new Microsoft cloud services to help you to get to grips with the fundamentals of MEM and understand which services you can manage. Whether you are talking about physical or cloud endpoints―it's all covered.

By the end of the book, you'll be able to set up MEM and use it to run Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows 365 efficiently.

What you will learn

• Understand how Windows 365 Cloud PC makes the deployment of Windows in the cloud easy
• Configure advanced policy management within MEM
• Discover modern profile management and migration options for physical and cloud PCs
• Harden security with baseline settings and other security best practices
• Find troubleshooting tips and tricks for MEM, Windows 365 Cloud PC, and more
• Discover deployment best practices for physical and cloud-managed endpoints
• Keep up with the Microsoft community and discover a list of MVPs to follow

Who this book is for

If you are an IT professional, enterprise mobility administrator, architect, or consultant looking to learn about managing Windows on both physical and cloud endpoints using Microsoft Endpoint Manager, then this book is for you.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Microsoft 365
2. What is Unified Endpoint Management?
3. Introducing Windows 365
4. Deploying Windows 365
5. Requirements for Microsoft Endpoint Manager
6. Windows Deployment and Management
7. Manager Windows Autopilot
8. Application Management and Delivery
9. Understanding Policy Management
10. Advanced Policy Management
11. Office Policy Management
12. User Profile Management
13. Identity and Security Management
14. Monitoring and Endpoint Analytics
15. Universal Print
16. Troubleshooting Microsoft Endpoint Manager
17. Troubleshooting Windows 365
18. Community Help

About the Authors

Christiaan Brinkhoff works as a Principal Program Manager and Community Lead for the Windows 365 Engineering team at Microsoft, driving new features such as Windows 11 integration and lots of different new community initiatives while bringing his expertise to help customers imagine new virtualization experiences. Christiaan joined Microsoft in 2018 as part of the FSLogix acquisition. He has also been rewarded with the Microsoft MVP, Citrix CTP, and VMware vExpert community achievements.

Per Larsen works as a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Customer Acceleration Team - Commercial Management Experiences (CMX) Engineering, where he takes learnings from Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers back into the rest of engineering to drive improvements for the service so that customers have a continuously improving product experience. He also helps deploy and adopt Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Microsoft Intune. Per mainly focuses on the management of Windows and special devices such as HoloLens 2, Surface Hub, and Microsoft Teams Room System. Per was also an MVP in Enterprise Mobility, from 1st July 2016 to when he joined Microsoft on 1st April 2018.