Understanding device administration

Without device administration, the task of ensuring your devices are secured and hardened is unrealistic. Unless you manage a very small number of devices, you are going to need some form of device administration to ensure your devices are set up to meet compliance policies and are secured when they are handed over to your employees. Even after the devices have been handed over, you are going to need to continuously push changes to these devices. Without effective administration, your organization will be putting itself in an extremely vulnerable situation.

We covered the concepts and Microsoft tools used to manage both your end user devices and Windows servers in detail in Chapter 3, Server Infrastructure Management, and Chapter 4, End User Device Management. This chapter will expand on those tools, and you will learn how to administer your devices along with enforcing the predefined baselines your company has agreed upon to ensure your devices...