MD-102: Endpoint Administrator

WEBVTT Welcome and thanks for joining us for this overview for Endpoint Administrator. I'm Sophie Goodwin, I'm an edutainer here and alongside myself, I've got Wes Bryan. Wes is going to be walking you through this course, teaching you everything you need to know. Wes, tell us a little about yourself. Sure, I've been a technical instructor for the, man, it's almost going on 15 years now. So I've been teaching industry leading certifications from things like CompTIA, from Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and I hold a variety of industry certifications too. I'm looking forward to teaching you some of the products and some of the techniques that we can implement to really just to administer to our endpoints today in a more modern approach. So Wes will be our subject matter expert for this course, and I'm curious Wes, learners that are approaching this course looking to learn, what should they bring to the table? What should they come in already knowing? Hey, that's a great question. So what you need to have is a good strong foundation of a Windows environment. You need to have a good foundation around mobile devices, such as things like iOS, Android, Windows Mobile is in there, but it's not as popular as obviously iOS and Android. So have a good foundation in that. You need to have a foundation too in TCP IP networking, because there is going to be some assumed knowledge. When we teach about things like servers or we teach about an endpoint. You should know what that verbiage is. So you should also have a good strong foundation inside of Windows Active Directory environments that's going to be important. But past that, if you know your way around Windows environments and the iOS and Android environments, we can help you with the rest. But those are some of the skills that you should bring to the table when you tackle this course. So I know you already mentioned what we're going to be getting into. Are you able to give us a brief overview as to what this course is going to get into, what it's going to look like? Sure. So this course is for those that are going to be deploying and managing Windows clients, but not only Windows clients. Remember, we also have mobile devices too. So we're going to be not necessarily maybe deploying their operating systems, but definitely configuring them and controlling them. So we'll be looking at deploying and managing Windows clients. We're going to be looking at managing identities, because identity is a big thing inside of our modern enterprise networks today. We'll also look at managing and monitoring compliance. Using the Microsoft Intune MDM solution. And that kind of leads itself into another topic that we'll be tackling. And that is how to deploy Microsoft Intune for a mobile device management solution. You probably have heard the term MDM solution. Well, we're going to show you how to implement Microsoft Intune as an MDM solution, as well as what's known as a MAM. That's right, a mobile application management solution too. So we'll look at deploying modern apps, cloud-based apps, as well as Office products here too. So we'll look at managing applications all through the Microsoft Intune and Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Microsoft Entra ID is going to make its way in there, formally known as the Azure AD infrastructure. It's been rebranded. We're going to see all of that inside of this course. Okay, so definitely plenty to learn. And if you're not familiar with our format, it'll be Wes as our subject matter expert walking you through this material. You'll see myself and a few of the other edutainers in the host role. That means we're going to function as kind of a learner advocate for you, asking questions along the way that you might have at home. But as far as this overview goes, I think we're pretty much wrapped up, right? Absolutely, grab your popcorn, grab your notes, and join us for more of that endpoint administration. All right, well thank you so much Wes, and thank you for joining us. We'll see you in the course.