MDM: Fundamentals, Security, and the Modern Desktop

Chapter 8Rollouts and Refreshes with Configuration Designer and Autopilot

At this point in the book, you’ve got a pretty nice layer cake:

• You’re enrolled in MDM, which gets you the ability to remotely manage the machine.
• You’ve got computers automatically putting themselves into dynamic groups.
• You’ve got applications of all kinds downloading automatically.
• You’ve got scripts running when needed.
• You’re using MDM to deliver the in-box policies for Windows and some applications.
• You’ve got users’ data stored nicely in OneDrive.

Everything is going great.

Until…Jack leaves his PC in the back of a taxi on the way to the airport.

Crap.

Now what?

The way I see it, there are four scenarios:

Scenario 1 After Jack lands, let Jack run to the electronics ...