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Course Overview
What’s the secret to keeping enterprise devices secure, compliant, and up to date across thousands of users? Today’s organizations depend on skilled administrators who can leverage Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager to deliver, protect, and manage devices at scale.
Microsoft reports that Configuration Manager is already managing more than 12.5 million devices worldwide, underscoring its critical role in enterprise IT. The Administering Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager Training (55348) course equips you with the practical skills to deploy clients, deliver applications, enforce compliance, roll out operating systems, and manage updates, ensuring your environment remains efficient, secure, and resilient.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for experienced IT professionals such as Enterprise Desktop Administrators (EDAs) responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining devices and applications across medium, large, or enterprise organizations, especially those using Configuration Manager or looking to upgrade their skills.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Use Configuration Manager and Intune to manage PCs and mobile devices
- Analyze device and user data using queries, reports, and CMPivot
- Deploy and manage Configuration Manager clients and monitor client health
- Configure, deploy, and manage applications and software updates
- Implement and optimize Endpoint Protection
- Prepare for OS deployment and manage Windows as a service
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and update your Configuration Manager site
Course Outline
1 - Managing computers and mobile devices in the enterprise
- Overview of systems management by 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
2 - Analyzing data using queries, reports, and CMPivot
- Introduction to queries
- Configuring SQL Server Reporting Services
- Analyzing the real-time state of a device by using CMPivot
3 - Preparing the Configuration Manager management infrastructure
- Configuring site boundaries and boundary groups
- Configuring resource discovery
- Organizing resources using device and user collections
4 - 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
5 - 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
6 - Distributing and managing content used for deployments
- Preparing the infrastructure for content management
- Distributing and managing content on distribution points
7 - Deploying and managing applications
- Overview of application management
- Creating applications
- Deploying applications
- Managing applications
- Deploying and managing Windows apps
8 - Maintaining software updates for managed PCs
- The software updates 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
9 - 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
10 - Managing compliance and secure data access
- Overview of Compliance Settings
- Configuring compliance settings
- Viewing compliance results
- Managing resource and data access
11 - Managing operating system deployment
- An overview of operating system deployment
- Preparing a site for operating system deployment
- Deploying an operating system
- Managing Windows as a service
12 - 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
13 - What’s new in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager
- Whats new in Microsoft Endpoint Manager covering each semi annual release