Creating the Secure Managed Desktop: Using Group Policy, Softgrid, and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and Other Management Tools teaches the technologies embedded in Windows platforms, including Windows Server 2008, designed to streamline and centralize the tasks of network desktop management. This book takes administrators beyond the fundamentals, teaching them to Maintain policy settings as users move from one computer to another Synchronize offline files Employ Windows Steady State to lock down a system Utilize Application Virtualization with Microsoft Softgrid Ensure client and server security with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) Manage the total cost of ownership.
Chapter 1 Deploying Windows with Style: Windows Deployment Services (WDS), and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008
Chapter 2 Profiles: Local, Roaming, and Mandatory
Chapter 3 Implementing a Managed Desktop, Part 1: Redirected Folders, Offline Files, and the Synchronization Manager
Chapter 4 The Managed Desktop, Part 2: Software Deployment via Group Policy
Chapter 5 Application Virtualization and SoftGrid Essentials
Chapter 6 SoftGrid-Beyond the Basics
Chapter 7 SoftGrid Sequencing Secrets
Chapter 8 Client Security with WSUS 3.0 and MBSA
Chapter 9 Network Access Protection with Group Policy
Chapter 10 Finishing Touches with Group Policy: Controlling Hardware, Deploying Printers, and Implementing Shadow
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Chapter 11 Full Lockdown with Windows SteadyState