Microsoft Endpoint Manager Evaluation Lab Kit

The Microsoft Endpoint Manager Evaluation Lab Kit provides a self-deploying Configuration Manager lab environment and guidance on using this unified platform to deploy and manage Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. At the end of this lab, you will become familiar with using certain key features of Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager in the unified Microsoft Endpoint Manager administration console. 

Microsoft Endpoint Manager provides transformative cloud management and security that meets customers where they are and helps them move to the cloud at their own pace. What makes this innovation in Microsoft Endpoint Manager possible is the native integration with Configuration Manager to co-manage your Windows 11 devices. 

You can continue to use Configuration Manager for managing Windows 11, and seamlessly add Microsoft Intune management without necessarily migrating. As a component of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Configuration Manager becomes the intelligent edge within your organization, connected to the Microsoft 365 intelligent cloud.

Lab environment

This lab guide is used with the lab environment provided with the Windows 11 and Office 365 Deployment Lab Kit. 

Download the lab environment here in the Evaluation Center

The kit provides you with an automatically provisioned virtual lab environment, including domain-joined desktop clients, a domain controller, an Internet gateway, and a fully configured Configuration Manager instance. The kit contains the latest evaluation versions of the following products:

• Windows 11 Enterprise
• Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, Version 2203
• Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 11
• Windows Server 2022

The lab is also designed for integration with:

• Microsoft 365 E5
• Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise
• Office 365 E5 with Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)
   

Lab guide scenarios 

The Microsoft Endpoint Manager Evaluation Kit lab guide provides step-by-step guidance for the following scenarios:

• Plan and prepare infrastructure
• Cloud Management Gateway
  
• Tenant attach and co-management
• Endpoint analytics
• Optimize update delivery
   

Deploy Windows

• OS deployment task sequences in Configuration Manager
• Windows Autopilot
   

Service Windows

• Servicing Windows using Group Policy
• Servicing Windows using Microsoft Intune
• Servicing Windows with Configuration Manager
   

Deploy Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise

• Cloud managed deployment
• Locally managed deployment
• Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Deployment on Non-AD Joined Devices
• Enterprise managed deployment using Configuration Manager
• Enterprise managed deployment using Microsoft Intune
• Servicing Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise using Configuration Manager
• Servicing Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise using Intune
• LOB Deployment and Management with Microsoft Intune
• Deploy Microsoft Teams
• Assignment filters
   

Managing Microsoft Edge

• Deploy and Update Edge
• IE Mode
• Setup Enterprise New Tab Page
   

Security and Compliance

• BitLocker
• Microsoft Defender Antivirus
• Windows Hello for Business
   

Languages

• English (United States)
   

Editions

• The kit consists of two files: the self-guided lab instructions and the lab set up guide. The lab is downloaded separately as part of the Windows and Office Deployment Lab Kit.