Microsoft
Private
Administering Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (55348)
Learn to administer Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, including clients, applications, updates, compliance, security, OS deployment, and maintenance.
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- Private class for your team
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- Online or on‑location
- Customizable agenda
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Course Overview
This five-day course teaches experienced IT professionals how to administer Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager in enterprise environments. Learn to deploy and monitor clients, manage inventory and content, deliver applications and software updates, enforce compliance, implement Endpoint Protection, deploy operating systems, and maintain Configuration Manager sites.
The course is designed for enterprise desktop administrators and other IT professionals responsible for managing devices and applications across medium, large, or enterprise organizations.
Course Benefits
- Use Configuration Manager and Intune to manage PCs and mobile devices.
- Analyze device and user data with queries, reports, and CMPivot.
- Prepare the Configuration Manager infrastructure by configuring boundaries, discovery, and collections.
- Deploy and manage Configuration Manager clients and monitor client health.
- Manage hardware and software inventory, content, applications, and software updates.
- Implement and optimize Endpoint Protection.
- Configure compliance settings and manage secure access to resources and data.
- Prepare for operating system deployment and manage Windows as a service.
- Maintain, troubleshoot, back up, recover, and update a Configuration Manager site.
Delivery Methods
Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
Course Outline
- Managing computers and mobile devices in the enterprise
- Overview of systems management using enterprise management solutions
- Overview of the Configuration Manager architecture
- Overview of the Configuration Manager administrative tools
- Tools for monitoring and troubleshooting a Configuration Manager site
- Analyzing data using queries, reports, and CMPivot
- Introduction to queries
- Configuring SQL Server Reporting Services
- Analyzing the real-time state of a device using CMPivot
- Preparing the Configuration Manager management infrastructure
- Configuring site boundaries and boundary groups
- Configuring resource discovery
- Organizing resources using device and user collections
- Deploying and managing the Configuration Manager client
- Overview of the Configuration Manager client
- Deploying the Configuration Manager client
- Configuring and monitoring client status
- Managing client settings and performing management operations
- Managing inventory for PCs and applications
- Overview of inventory collection
- Configuring hardware and software inventory
- Managing inventory collection
- Configuring software metering
- Configuring and managing Asset Intelligence
- Distributing and managing content used for deployments
- Preparing the infrastructure for content management
- Distributing and managing content on distribution points
- Deploying and managing applications
- Overview of application management
- Creating applications
- Deploying applications
- Managing applications
- Deploying and managing Windows apps
- Maintaining software updates for managed PCs
- The software update process
- Preparing a Configuration Manager site for software updates
- Managing software updates
- Configuring automatic deployment rules
- Monitoring and troubleshooting software updates
- Enabling third-party updates
- Implementing Defender Protection for managed PCs
- Overview of Endpoint Protection in Configuration Manager
- Configuring, deploying, and monitoring Endpoint Protection policies
- Configuring and deploying advanced threat policies
- Managing compliance and secure data access
- Overview of Compliance Settings
- Configuring compliance settings
- Viewing compliance results
- Managing resource and data access
- Managing operating system deployment
- Overview of operating system deployment
- Preparing a site for operating system deployment
- Deploying an operating system
- Managing Windows as a service
- Managing and maintaining a Configuration Manager site
- Configuring role-based administration
- Configuring Remote Tools
- Overview of Configuration Manager site maintenance and Management Insights
- Backing up and recovering a Configuration Manager site
- Updating the Configuration Manager infrastructure
- What's new in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager
- What's new in Microsoft Endpoint Manager across each semiannual release
Class Materials
Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following is required for this Windows class:
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including protocols, routing, and switching
- Experience with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
- Experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Windows PCs
- Basic knowledge of public key infrastructure (PKI) security concepts
- Basic scripting and Windows PowerShell knowledge
- Understanding of Windows Server roles and services
- Basic knowledge of iOS and Android mobile device configuration
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