Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-697--and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of configuring Windows 10 devices in the enterprise. Designed for experienced IT pros ready to advance their status, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success as a Microsoft specialist. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Manage identity Plan desktop and device deployment Plan and implement a Microsoft Intune device management solution Configure networking and storage Manage data access and protection Manage remote access Manage apps Manage updates and recovery This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Assumes you have experience with Windows desktop administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting; basic experience and understanding of Windows networking; and introductory-level knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Intune

Prepare for Microsoft Exam MD-101-and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge required to manage modern Windows 10 desktops. Designed for Windows administrators, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Associate level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: * Deploy and upgrade operating systems * Manage policies and profiles * Manage and protect devices * Manage apps and data This Microsoft Exam Ref: * Organizes its coverage by exam objectives * Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you * Assumes you have experience deploying, configuring, securing, managing, and monitoring devices and client applications in an enterprise environment About the Exam Exam MD-101 focuses on knowledge needed to plan a Windows 10 deployment; plan and implement Windows 10 with Windows Autopilot and MDT; manage accounts, VPN connections, and certificates; implement device compliance policies; configure device profiles; manage user profiles; implement and manage device, application, and threat protection; manage Intune devices; monitor devices; manage updates; deploy/update applications; and implement Mobile Application Management (MAM). About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam and Exam MD-100: Windows 10 fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate certification credential, demonstrating your ability to deploy, configure, secure, manage, and monitor devices and client applications in an enterprise environment. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Prepare for the updated version of Microsoft Exam MD-100-and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge required to deploy, configure, and maintain Windows 10 devices and technologies in an enterprise environment. Designed for Windows Administrators, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Associate level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: * Deploy Windows * Manage devices and data * Configure storage and connectivity * Maintain Windows This Microsoft Exam Ref: * Organizes its coverage by exam objectives * Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you * Assumes you have experience administering Windows 10 and non-Windows devices and technologies About the Exam Exam MD-100 focuses on knowledge needed to install Windows 10; perform post-installation configuration; manage users, groups, and devices; configure devices with local policies; manage Windows security; configure networking; configure data access and protection; configure system and data recovery; manage updates; monitor and manage Windows; and configure remote connectivity. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam and Exam MD-101: Managing Modern Desktops fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate certification credential, demonstrating your ability to deploy, configure, secure, manage, and monitor devices and client applications in an enterprise environment. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Prepare for Microsoft Exam MD-100: Windows 10-and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge required to deploy, configure, secure, manage, and monitor Windows devices and client applications. Designed for Windows administrators, Exam Ref MD-100: Windows 10 focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Associate level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Deploy Windows Manage devices and data Configure connectivity Maintain Windows This Microsoft Exam Ref MD-100: Windows 10: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Assumes you have some experience administering Windows 10 and non-Windows devices and technologies About the Exam Exam MD-100: Windows 10 focuses on knowledge needed to deploy Windows; perform post-installation configuration; manage local users, local groups, and devices; configure data access and protection; configure devices with local policies; manage Windows security; configure networking; configure remote connectivity; configure system and data recovery; manage updates; and monitor and manage Windows. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam and Exam MD-101: Managing Modern Desktops fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate certification credential, demonstrating your ability to install Windows 10 operating systems and deploy and manage modern desktops and devices in an enterprise environment. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Understand, troubleshoot and repair issues with local Windows installations, automating the OS deployment and configuring updates via WSUS and Windows Intune. When tasked with deploying Windows operating systems, there can seem to be an overwhelming amount of tools and techniques to learn to master this process. Whether you are installing a new Windows operating system locally, or looking to deploy a customized build to 1000s of devices in your network, you will need to understand how to do this successfully and reliably. This book steps up through local installations and upgrades through to Lite Touch deployments using WDS and MDT, and then to Zero Touch installations using Microsoft System Center. Management of updates to Windows is also covered, using both on-premises technologies and cloud-based services. In this book you'll learn how to decide between local installation types, perform upgrades, use automation techniques to deploy images and how to maintain Windows throughout the operational phase of the lifecycle. What You'll Learn Install Windows 7, 8.1, or 10 locally Perform upgrades locally on a Windows PC, including migrating data and user profiles Deploy operating systems using Lite Touch techniques Deploy operating systems using Zero Touch technologies Maintain on-premises and devices not connected to the company network by using WSUS and Windows Intune Who This Book Is For IT pros including IT support personnel and system administrators. This book will also be of interest to Windows experts and power users.

Find out how to isolate, understand, and solve problems encountered when managing users and PCs on Windows. Learn from a Microsoft MVP with many years' experience supporting Windows users with their Group Policy issues. This book will help you face the complexity of real world hardware and software systems and the unpredictability of user behavior, so you can get to the heart of the problem and set it right. Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting is your best-practice guide to Group Policy, showing you all that it can achieve, and how to repair problems when they occur. What You'll Learn Understand how Group Policy works Take a simple step-by-step approach to troubleshooting problems Apply Group Policy in Office applications Absorb advanced Group Policy advice See expert tips and tricks related to Group Policy Who This Book Is For IT pros and system administrators are the audience for this book.

As companies keep their existing hardware and operating systems for more years than ever before, the need to diagnose and repair problems is becoming ever more important for IT Pros and system administrators. Whatever version of Windows you're using (including Windows 10) you'll likely need to maintain compatibility with older software that the company must use for mission-critical operations, or older hardware that's required for specific purposes, but you don't want to sacrifice security for the sake of compatibility. In this briefbook you'll learn how to maintain optimal compatibility with the older software and devices that you need to use. The authors are well-versed in training in classrooms and video, with Andrew Bettany running the IT Academy at the University of York, and IT Masterclasses and Mike Halsey being a teacher, tech-book author, and having produced many tutorial videos under the brand PC Support.tv.

The Windows file system is large and complex, featuring not only a huge number of essential files and folders for the Windows OS, your software and hardware, but also several different underlying file systems that manage and maintain file integrity on your disks. In this book you'll learn how to navigate around the Windows file structure (up to Windows 8.1), with what does what and how essential everything is. Additionally we'll show you how to effectively manage file, folder and security permissions to ensure users get what the access they need, and no more. We'll also show you how to repair the underlying disk file system should something go horribly wrong.

Whatever version of Windows you're using--from Vista up to Windows 8.1--the registry is at the heart of your desktop experience. Software installs and compatibility, hardware operation and more are managed by a complex database of codes and numbers. When something goes wrong it can seem impossible to diagnose and repair the problem, and harder still to prevent a recurrence or make the subtle changes and tweaks required to fix the problem. In this book we'll take you inside the workings of the Registry, and teach you how to repair, modify and clean it to keep your PCs running smoothly.

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-697-and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of configuring Windows 10 devices in the enterprise. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: * Manage identity * Plan desktop and device deployment * Plan and implement a Microsoft 365 Solution * Configure networking * Configure storage * Manage data access and protection * Manage remote access * Manage apps * Manage updates and recovery This Microsoft Exam Ref: * Organizes its coverage by exam objectives * Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you * Assumes you have experience with Windows desktop administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting; Windows 10 security, and integrated Azure features; as well as a basic understanding of Windows networking, Active Directory, and Microsoft Intune For details on requirements for taking Exam 70-697, go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-70-697.aspx

Prepare for Microsoft Exam MD-101-and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge required to manage modern Windows 10 desktops. Designed for Windows administrators, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Associate level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Deploy and update operating systems Manage policies and profiles Manage and protect devices Manage apps and data This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Assumes you have experience deploying, configuring, securing, managing, and monitoring devices and client applications in an enterprise environment About the Exam Exam MD-101 focuses on knowledge needed to plan and implement Windows 10 with dynamic deployment or Windows Autopilot; upgrade devices to Windows 10; manage updates and device authentication; plan and implement co-management; implement conditional access and compliance policies; configure device profiles; manage user profiles; manage Windows Defender; manage Intune device enrollment and inventory; monitor devices; deploy/update applications, and implement Mobile Application Management (MAM). About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam and Exam MD-100 Windows 10 fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate certification credential, demonstrating your ability to install Windows 10 operating systems and deploy and manage modern desktops and devices in an enterprise environment. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Make your PCs as secure as possible and limit the routes of attack and safely and completely remove all traces of malware and viruses should an infection take place. Whatever version of Windows you're using, the threat of virus and malware infection is always a common danger. From key loggers and Trojans, intent on stealing passwords and data, to malware that can disable individual PCs or even a company network, the cost to business in downtime and loss of productivity can be enormous. What You'll Learn: Recognize malware and the problems it can cause Defend a PC against malware and viruses Configure advanced Windows features to prevent attack Identify types of malware and virus attack Discover third-party tools and resources available to help remove malware Manually remove malware and viruses from a PC Who This Book Is For IT pros, Windows expert and power users and system administrators

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-698-and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of installing, configuring, managing, and maintaining Windows 10 core services. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: * Implement Windows * Configure and support core services * Manage and maintain Windows This Microsoft Exam Ref: * Organizes its coverage by exam objectives * Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you * Assumes you have experience with installing, configuring, and locally managing and maintaining Windows 10 core services