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If your job is deploying Windows 10, this book is for you. In this book, you will find practical guidance based on our many years of real-world experience deploying Windows around the world. Deployment Fundamentals, Volume 6, provides you with detailed step-by-step instructions, as well as decision-making guidance and explanations that provide answers on the Whys and Hows around Windows 10 OS deployment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 Update 2. The book also include many real-word notes and troubleshooting tips and tricks.To get you going as quickly possible, the book sample scripts contains a fully automated build of the entire environment, the hydration kit. That includes a fully configured Active Directory environment, including DNS, DHCP, WSUS, PXE, DFS-R Replication, SQL Express, and more.With this book, you will learn how to: Install and configure MDT 2013 Update 2 for production deployments - Build the supporting infrastructure - Use the script repository included with this book in your own environment - Create production-ready reference images for Windows 10 - Build a real-world deployment solution for Windows 10 - Add and deploy applications - Perform real-world driver management - Apply advanced configurations for CustomSettings.ini and deployment automation - Extend MDT using application wrappers, userexit scripts, and PowerShell - Prestage deployment settings using the MDT databases - Perform advanced configuration using web services - Deploy Office 2016, including the Click-to-Run Office 365 version

Enterprise Client Management is packed with everything you need to efficiently manage Windows 7 or 8.1 clients in an enterprise environment. The book takes you through a complete scenario, including all the necessary preparations, for preparing the infrastructure and then deploying, patching, configuring, securing, backing up, and managing the Windows clients (and other devices). In this scenario, you use management tools available in Windows Server 2012 R2 and the System Center 2012 R2 products, combined with Microsoft Intune. Real-world tips and tricks together with a vast number of step-by-step guides make this book a one-stop shop for client management in your existing enterprise environment. Discover how to Prepare your infrastructure for optimal enterprise client management - Manage group polies the enterprise way - Set up the infrastructure for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager - Deploy Windows clients in an automated fashion - Implement Software Updates - Take advantage of new features and technologies for user profiles and data using for instance UE-V and Work Folders - Backup your data effectively using System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager - Secure your clients using new and improved security features such as BitLocker with MBAM 2.5 - Manage Windows and mobile devices using Microsoft Intune - Control remote access using managed VPN profiles and Windows To Go - Handle change and incident management using System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager - Manage clients using PowerShell

Did your last OS migration go as smoothly as you expected? Were your users satisfied with their individual upgrade experiences? Negative responses to these important questions are often why we are called in to help organizations and the inspiration behind this book.Using real-world scenarios and our collective experience on dozens of migration projects, you learn how to introduce automation into your OS deployment solution and build a self-serve migration platform for your users to upgrade Windows on their own schedules, without ever involving the help desk. You learn how to incorporate 1E solutions to augment Configuration Manager and how to tweak your task sequence for multiple build types and situations. In this book, you learn how to: Design a System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager environment for up to 50,000 users with minimal server hardware - Implement the following solutions from 1E: ActiveEfficiency, Nomad, PXE Everywhere, and Shopping - Utilize enterprise peer transfer for OS deployments, user state migration, PXE, software deployment, and software updates - Build the perfect Windows 8.1 reference image using MDT 2013 - Deploy Windows 8.1 using Configuration Manager and Nomad for OS refreshes, replacements, and new installations - Enable users to self-shop for software and operating systems using a common web-based interface

This book is for IT professionals who need to take their reporting to the next level. The focus of this guide is a practical approach to modify, create, and build reports within SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Although intended for Configuration Manager 2012 Administrators, there are many concepts in this practical handbook that provide value for anyone who requires additional knowledge of SSRS. The reporting principles also apply to other versions of Configuration Manager. In addition to well-proven step-by-step guides, you also get access to sample scripts and source code, allowing you to quickly test the solutions in your own environment. The cover image on this book is the Rialto Bridge. Built of stone and completed in 1591, it facilitated commerce and the transfer of goods across the Grand Canal in Venice. The bridge symbolizes this handbook, which is meant to facilitate the transfer of knowledge of report building, taking you from requirements to completion.Discover how to: Set up Configuration Manager 2012 R2 for SSRS - Locate information in the Configuration Manager database - Compare and contrast report authoring tools - Customize existing reports with Report Builder - Create a report with SQL Server Data Tools - Modify a report with SQL Server Data Tools - Create advanced reporting solutions - Perform custom reporting on extended hardware inventories - Employ techniques to simplify report data displays - Create linked reports - Report on databases other than Configuration Manager - Deploy a solution that tracks and reports on historical client data.

If your job is managing iOS, Android, or Windows devices, this book is for you. You will find practical guidance based on our many years of real-world experience managing mobile devices around the world. This book provides you with detailed step-by-step instructions, as well as decision-making guidance and explanations that provide answers on the whys and hows around modern device management using Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite and System Center Configuration Manager. The book also includes many real-word notes and troubleshooting tips and tricks.To get you going as quickly as possible, the book sample scripts contain a fully automated build of the entire environment, the hydration kit. That includes a fully configured Active Directory environment, including DNS, AD FS, WAP, NDES, Intune, Office365, Azure Active Directory Premium, Azure Rights Management, and more.With this book, you will learn how to: Plan and implement the Enterprise Mobility Suite - Use Azure Active Directory Premium to implement identity management - Implement Multi-Factor Authentication - Use self-service password reset- Employ Azure Rights Management to protect data - Implement Microsoft Intune to support standalone environments - Implement Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager to support hybrid environments - Manage iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices - Implement conditional access to secure resource access control to Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, and other corporate resources - Implement Microsoft NDES to distribute certificates - Deploy store-based applications - Deploy LOB applications - Develop and deploy managed applications - Perform a successful EMS proof of concept

Niall Brady has been putting out OSD guides for the community for more than ten years. In this book, you find completely rewritten and reengineered versions of his most popular guides, verified against current versions of MDT and ConfigMgr. Also included in the book is a rich repository of sample scripts, which not only help you get the various solutions implemented quickly, but also help you set up a proof-of-concept environment in which you can try the guides.Discover how to - Set up the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 infrastructure - Enforce BitLocker with MBAM 2.5 - Deploy Windows 8.1 to the Surface Pro 3 - Set up ConfigMgr 2012 R2 integration with MDT 2013 - Create custom boot images - Increase log file size - Build reference images - Deploy a custom Start screen - Automatically sync time in WinPE - Pause a task sequence during deployment - Use devel mode - Implement MailLog, AssistMe, and ViewLog - Check for network and storage problems in WinPE - Set up software updates - Patch an image using offline servicing - Use the CM12 UEFI BitLocker HTA frontend