Chapter 1Enterprise Mobility and MDM Essentials

In this first chapter, we’ll get to know what MDM is, where it came from, and how it’s different than its cousin Group Policy.

I think the best place to start is right at the top of a new page. Like this one.

And that’s kind of what Microsoft did when they decided to dedicate their efforts with EMM and MDM and not continue down the path of investing more features into existing core on-prem Active Directory and Group Policy technologies.

Again, as I stated in the book’s Introduction, Group Policy is not dead. And Microsoft has not “turned off” Group Policy usage for on-prem scenarios, nor should you live in fear that your favorite new, “Windows 10 gismo,” will lose the ability to be controlled ...

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