Chapter 7.  Managing Clients

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Deploying clients
  • Upgrading client agents
  • Managing client health
  • Managing client settings
  • Enabling Device Health Attestation in Windows 10
  • Monitoring client installation and activity
  • Making use of user-centric improvements
  • Configuring power management

Introduction

This chapter is all about the CM client. You will learn multiple methods to deploy the client, as well as how to be proactive in monitoring the health of the client agent. Client health in CM is a giant leap forward in detecting, automatically repairing, and reporting on its health and activity (officially called as client status).

Another fantastic feature in CM is client settings. You can configure and deploy ...

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