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Published inMar 2024

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Christiaan Brinkhoff

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Introduction to Microsoft 365

Understanding the fundamentals of a product is the most important thing for a successful deployment. Keeping your resources secure while leveraging other services within the Microsoft 365 product suite is what you will learn about in this chapter.

In this chapter, we’ll go through the following topics:

Microsoft 365 cloud services
Microsoft Intune
Intune Suite
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365
Windows 11
Windows Copilot
Security Copilot
Endpoint analytics
Productivity Score
Universal Print
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Microsoft Teams
Edge
Exchange Online
SharePoint Online

Microsoft 365 cloud services

Microsoft 365 cloud services (hereafter referred to as Microsoft 365) includes many services that you might use in your day job, whether as an IT professional or a non-technical user. These services help you to become more productive by simplifying tasks that would require a lot of work in on-premises environments.

A great example would be the shift we’ve made from Exchange Server to Exchange Online and of course now the shift of Windows to Windows 365, which is Microsoft’s latest cloud service that allows enterprises and small businesses to leverage the power of Azure computing in Windows to improve the performance, scalability, and productivity of users across any device, any platform!

What do these services achieve?

In this introductory section of the book, we will briefly explain the core Microsoft 365 services and features that are relevant to the subject of this book, just to get a good baseline understanding of the differences...

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about different Microsoft 365 services you might use in your day job or as part of your journey to using Microsoft Intune to simplify the management overhead of your environment. What you didn’t learn is that some of these services cost more on top of the existing Intune subscription.

This chapter is mainly intended to provide context for the later chapters in the book; we are now switching gears and taking you on the journey of unified endpoint management with Microsoft Intune.

Questions

What are the main benefits of using Microsoft Intune?
1. Microsoft Intune ensures that an organization no longer needs credentials to access and share company data.
2. Microsoft Intune prevents remote devices and apps from accessing an organization’s resources.
3. Microsoft Intune helps keep an organization’s cloud and on-premises devices, apps, and data secure.
On what Windows version are Windows 365 Boot and Windows 365 Switch available?
1. Windows 10
2. Windows 11

Answers

Microsoft Intune fundamentals: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/endpoint-manager-fundamentals/
Windows 365 official product documentation: The official Microsoft documentation for Windows 365 Enterprise and Windows 365 Business (https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-365)
Introduction to Microsoft Intune: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-endpoint-manager/

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Authors (2)

Christiaan Brinkhoff

Christiaan Brinkhoff works as a Principal Program Manager and Community Director for Windows 365 and AVD at Microsoft, in his role at Microsoft, he works on features such as Windows 11, Windows 365 app, Switch and Boot. Christiaan is also an Author (3 books) and Inventor (3 patents). His mission is to drive innovation while bringing Windows 365, Windows, and Microsoft Intune closer together, drive community efforts around virtualization to empower Microsoft customers in leveraging new cloud virtualization scenarios. 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 - for his continued support in the EUC community.
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Per Larsen

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.
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