MD-102 study guide: Managing and Securing Microsoft 365 Endpoints
A hands-on five-week plan aligned to the skills measured from 24 July 2026.
Articles
Search practical articles by capability. The guidance is written for administrators and architects working with security controls, change governance, certification objectives and production support.
A hands-on five-week plan aligned to the skills measured from 24 July 2026.
Where MECM still adds value, when Intune should lead and how to modernise without creating operational gaps.
Choose the right personas, network model and operational controls for a secure Cloud PC service.
What the headline changes mean, what to pilot and which enterprise controls should come first.
A hands-on four-week plan mapped to the three published exam domains.
Choose the desktop model, externalise user state and operate profiles as a resilient service.
A controlled rollout from content readiness and agent governance to measurable business value.
Use cases, setup, trust decisions and hard-earned coexistence lessons across tenants.
Build a stable trust boundary, layer application allowances and move safely from audit to enforcement.
A production-minded deployment guide for AD CS, NDES, the Intune Certificate Connector, SCEP profiles and highly available CRL distribution through Azure Blob Storage.
A structured four-week preparation plan covering tenant administration, Entra identity, Defender XDR, Microsoft Purview and hands-on Microsoft 365 administration.
A focused two-week plan for Microsoft 365 services, Copilot data protection, governance, agents and basic administration tasks.
A practical seven-day plan to learn cloud concepts, Azure architecture and services, and Azure management and governance.
A hands-on five-week plan for AVD networking, host pools, FSLogix, identity, security, application delivery, monitoring and resilience.
What changed in July 2026, how to confirm tenant readiness, and how to sequence adoption without treating every new entitlement as production-ready.
A phased enterprise deployment pattern for audit, elevation rules, support approval, local administrator removal and operational governance.
How to pilot Enterprise Application Management, review catalogue metadata, deploy Win32 apps and establish an update lifecycle.
Choose a deployment model, build a controlled CA hierarchy, issue SCEP certificates and validate Wi-Fi, VPN or certificate-based authentication.
A practical setup for licensing, RBAC, helper deployment, Conditional Access, session testing and support operations.
Turn device query, fleet query, device timeline, battery health and resource performance into repeatable support workflows.
Where the Plan 2 capabilities fit, what infrastructure they need and which use cases justify an enterprise pilot.
A practical Australian financial-year adoption roadmap covering confirmed E5 additions, readiness work, pilots, governance and value tracking.