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Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

You're reading from   Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Manage complex and heterogeneous workloads with ConfigMgr 1706

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881015
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paweł Jarosz Paweł Jarosz
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Jacek Doktór Jacek Doktór
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Preface 1. Design Planning FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Configuration Manager 3. Configure Sites and Boundaries 4. Configuration Manager Agent Installation 5. Creating Client Settings for Servers and Workstations 6. Compliance Settings 7. Software Distributions 8. Software Update Management 9. Endpoint Protection 10. Operating System Deployment 11. Configuration Manager Assets 12. Role-Based Administration and Security 13. Site Server Maintenance Tasks

Understanding Endpoint Protection

Managing and configuring the environment are not all the capabilities provided by the ConfigMgr server; a great feature is also fundamental protection against unwanted software, and a component responsible for this is Endpoint Protection. It is a part of the ConfigMgr used for hardening the environment against malware threats and for firewall rules configuration.

The ConfigMgr server provides the possibility of performing deployments, central management, and monitoring statuses of managed computers. In fact, Endpoint Protection is Windows Defender, which is managed using the ConfigMgr console. Endpoint Protection and Windows Defender have similar interfaces and settings.

The ConfigMgr server license does not contain a license for Endpoint Protection; it is necessary to buy the subscription separately.

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