Microsoft Modern Windows Desktop Admin course with SIMS

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Explaining the foundation lectures

Lecture 2: A Foundation of Active Directory Domains

Lecture 3: A Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization

Lecture 4: A Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services

Lecture 5: DO NOT SKIP: Azure AD is being renamed

Lecture 6: Using the assignments in the course

Lecture 7: Questions for John Christopher

Lecture 8: Order of concepts covered in the course

Lecture 9: Certificate of Completion

Chapter 2: (OPTIONAL)Setup a trial account with Microsoft 365 and Windows VMs

Lecture 1: DONT SKIP: Before beginning your account setup

Lecture 2: Creating a trial Microsoft 365/Azure Account

Lecture 3: (OPTIONAL)Setting up a Windows 10 and Server 2019 Virtual Machine

Lecture 4: Disable large send offload version 2

Chapter 3: Manage identity

Lecture 1: The First Concept of Microsoft's Cloud

Lecture 2: Understanding User Identities

Lecture 3: Creating and licensing User Identities

Lecture 4: Understanding Groups

Lecture 5: Creating Groups

Lecture 6: Creating Microsoft 365 users and groups with Powershell

Lecture 7: PLEASE DO NOT SKIP THIS VIDEO

Chapter 4: Plan & implement Windows client deployment by using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Lecture 1: Understanding the Windows deployment tools

Lecture 2: Visualizing Imaging and Provisioning

Lecture 3: Downloading & installing the Windows ADK and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)

Lecture 4: Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to create a deployment share

Lecture 5: Importing Windows Images into the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)

Lecture 6: Importing Applications for deployment using Microsoft Deployment toolkit (MDT)

Lecture 7: Using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Driver Packages & Task Sequences

Lecture 8: Managing Provisioning Packages

Lecture 9: Evaluate deployment options in Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Chapter 5: Plan and implement Windows client provisioning by using Windows Autopilot

Lecture 1: Introduction to Autopilot

Lecture 2: Extracting and importing Autopilot Hardware IDs

Lecture 3: Creating autopilot deployment profiles

Chapter 6: Manage device updates

Lecture 1: Understanding modern update deployment

Lecture 2: Modern configuration for Windows update settings

Lecture 3: Configuring Windows Update for Business

Lecture 4: Deploying Windows updates with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

Chapter 7: Manage User Profiles

Lecture 1: Configuring user profiles

Lecture 2: Configuring Folder Redirection Including OneDrive

Lecture 3: Understanding Enterprise State Roaming

Lecture 4: Migrating User Profiles

Chapter 8: Joining an On-Premise Active Directory Domain with AzureAD

Lecture 1: Configuring Custom Domain Settings in Active Directory

Lecture 2: Configuring Custom Domain Settings in AzureAD

Lecture 3: Performing an Active Directory Cleanup

Lecture 4: Performing Azure AD Connect

Lecture 5: Verifying Azure AD Connect Health

Chapter 9: Manage device authentication

Lecture 1: Manage password and authentication policies

Lecture 2: Understanding Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

Lecture 3: Implementing Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

Lecture 4: Implementing Self Service Password Reset (SSPR)

Lecture 5: Performing Azure AD join

Chapter 10: Manage device lifecycle

Lecture 1: Configuring enrollment settings

Lecture 2: Configuring Device Enrollment Restrictions

Lecture 3: Enrolling Windows devices

Lecture 4: Enrolling non-Windows devices

Lecture 5: Generating device inventory reports

Chapter 11: Plan and implement device configuration profiles

Lecture 1: Understanding and planning device configuration profiles

Lecture 2: Implementing device profiles

Lecture 3: Managing device profiles

Chapter 12: Plan and implement conditional access policies

Lecture 1: Understanding conditional access policies

Lecture 2: Implement conditional access policies

Chapter 13: Implement device compliance policies

Lecture 1: Understanding device compliance policies

Lecture 2: Implementing and managing compliance policies

Chapter 14: Deploy and update applications

Lecture 1: Assigning apps using Intune

Lecture 2: Deploying apps to a group of devices using Intune

Lecture 3: Looking at the Office 365 subscriptions

Lecture 4: Customizing the Office 365 ProPlus deployment with Office Deployment Tool & OCT

Lecture 5: Managing and implementing MAM Application Protection policies with Intune

Chapter 15: Plan and implement endpoint protection

Lecture 1: Managing Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 10

Lecture 2: Windows Defender for Endpoint (formally ATP Advanced Threat Protection)

Lecture 3: Demonstration of Microsoft 365 Defender

Lecture 4: Monitoring Device Health with Log Analytics