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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462824
Pages 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Richard Diver Richard Diver
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Richard Diver is a senior technical business strategy manager for the Microsoft Security Solutions group, focused on developing security partners. Based in Chicago, Richard works with advanced security and compliance partners to help them build solutions across the entire Microsoft platform, including Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft 365 security solutions, and many more. Prior to Microsoft, Richard worked in multiple industries and for several Microsoft partners to architect and implement cloud security solutions for a wide variety of customers around the world. Any spare time he gets is usually spent with his family.
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Manuel Singer Manuel Singer
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Manuel Singer works as a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Windows Client at Microsoft and is based in Germany. He has more than 10 years of experience in system management and deployment using Microsoft technologies. He specializes in client enterprise design, deployment, performance, reliability, and Microsoft devices. Manuel works with local and international top customers from the private and public sector to provide professional technical and technological support.
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Jeff Stokes Jeff Stokes
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Jeff Stokes is a Windows / Microsoft Engineer currently employed at Microsoft. He specializes in Operating System Health, Reliability, and Performance. He is skilled in Windows Deployment with MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) and has exceptional skills in VDI (Virtual Desktop) and performance analysis. He is an active writer and blogger and loves technology.
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface 1. Installation and Upgrading 2. Configuration and Customization 3. User Account Administration 4. Remote Administration Tools 5. Device Management 6. Protecting Enterprise Data in BYOD Scenarios 7. Windows 10 Security 8. Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection 9. Advanced Configurations 10. RedStone 3 Changes

Microsoft telemetry

The advent of forced telemetry in Windows 10 caused a stir in the IT Pro and Enterprise administration space. For those unaware of this, Windows 10 keeps logs of many activities performed on it and ships those (anonymized) data points back to Microsoft for advanced analytics. Before you panic, let's explore what is collected and why.

What is collected?

  • Type of hardware being used
  • Applications installed and usage details
  • Reliability information on device drivers

Why is it collected?

Microsoft gives many reasons for collecting this data. The general takeaway here should be that Microsoft uses telemetry to do its best on the functionality of future versions as well as spending the resources to fix problems in a real-world priority scenario. For example, in the past, if 10,000,000 crashes occurred in Explorer.exe daily in the world and they all had the same...

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Richard Diver is a senior technical business strategy manager for the Microsoft Security Solutions group, focused on developing security partners. Based in Chicago, Richard works with advanced security and compliance partners to help them build solutions across the entire Microsoft platform, including Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft 365 security solutions, and many more. Prior to Microsoft, Richard worked in multiple industries and for several Microsoft partners to architect and implement cloud security solutions for a wide variety of customers around the world. Any spare time he gets is usually spent with his family.
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Manuel Singer works as a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Windows Client at Microsoft and is based in Germany. He has more than 10 years of experience in system management and deployment using Microsoft technologies. He specializes in client enterprise design, deployment, performance, reliability, and Microsoft devices. Manuel works with local and international top customers from the private and public sector to provide professional technical and technological support.
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Profile icon Jeff Stokes
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Jeff Stokes is a Windows / Microsoft Engineer currently employed at Microsoft. He specializes in Operating System Health, Reliability, and Performance. He is skilled in Windows Deployment with MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) and has exceptional skills in VDI (Virtual Desktop) and performance analysis. He is an active writer and blogger and loves technology.
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