Defender for Endpoint<\/a> onboarding and EDR state.<\/p>\nUse reporting to verify the policy reached the endpoint rather than assuming assignment equals enforcement.<\/p>\n
Lab eight: deploy an application and protect its data<\/h3>\n
Deploy a small Win32 or Store app, monitor install status and troubleshoot one failure. Then create an app-protection\/app-configuration scenario for a BYOD user.<\/p>\n
Compare device management with MAM-only protection so the privacy and control boundary is clear.<\/p>\n
Lab nine: perform remote actions and diagnostics<\/h3>\n
Use sync, restart or another low-risk action, collect device diagnostics, run a KQL device query where available, and inspect the Troubleshooting blade. Avoid wipe\/retire unless using a disposable lab device and you intend the full lifecycle reset.<\/p>\n
Remote actions should be chosen according to impact and recoverability.<\/p>\n
Lab ten: automate and monitor fleet health<\/h3>\n
Use PowerShell\/Graph for one read-only or safe management task, inspect Endpoint Analytics, create a proactive remediation script in a controlled test, and build one report or alert around health\/compliance\/enrollment.<\/p>\n
Add a dynamic-group assignment exercise. Place the Windows test device into a group based on a device attribute, then target a harmless profile to that group. Change the attribute or rule and observe membership update. This shows how identity data can drive policy at scale.<\/p>\n
Add a scope-tag lab for delegated administration. Give a test administrator visibility to one tagged set of devices and not another. Compare that with ordinary Intune role permissions. This makes delegated management and object scope easier to distinguish.<\/p>\n
Add a Windows LAPS exercise if the tenant\/device supports it. Configure rotation, retrieve the password through an authorized account, rotate it remotely and verify unauthorized users cannot see it. The goal is operational understanding of local-admin recovery without shared passwords.<\/p>\n
Add an update-ring experiment with a pilot device. Configure a controlled deadline\/restart behavior and observe reporting. Do not attempt risky production patch delays; the lab is about policy mechanics and status interpretation.<\/p>\n
Add an application-protection tabletop for a personal mobile device. Define corporate apps, PIN\/authentication, copy\/paste, save locations and wipe behavior. Then compare what happens if the user leaves the company while personal data remains on the device.<\/p>\n
Add a Cloud PKI or certificate-flow diagram if the feature is unavailable. Trace certificate authority, issuance, device identity, renewal, protected resource and monitoring. The diagram should explain how certificate failure becomes a connectivity problem.<\/p>\n
Add one Remote Help or remote-support workflow. Record who initiates, who consents, what permissions the helper receives and what audit trail remains. Remote access should be transparent and scoped, especially when support staff can view sensitive user screens.<\/p>\n
Add a proactive-remediation lab with a harmless condition such as checking a configuration value and correcting it. Log detection and remediation results. The script should be idempotent so repeated runs do not create new problems.<\/p>\n
Add an Endpoint Analytics baseline before remediation. Capture startup or reliability metrics, apply a controlled fix, then compare the result. Improvement should be measured rather than assumed from successful script execution.<\/p>\n
Add a service-health check to the lab runbook. Before changing tenant-wide configuration during a strange failure, check Intune service health and communications. This simple operational step can prevent administrators from \u201crepairing\u201d healthy policy during a Microsoft-side incident.<\/p>\n
Add a Graph read-only query for devices, apps or compliance and save the request\/response pattern. This builds confidence with API-based administration while keeping the first automation safe. Later write operations should be tested on disposable objects.<\/p>\n
Finish with a blind endpoint ticket prepared by another person: failed enrollment, profile conflict, app install issue, compliance\/access problem or slow startup. Diagnose from device and Intune evidence without knowing which feature was changed. This is much closer to the real endpoint-admin role.<\/p>\n
Add a Windows 365 tabletop or trial lab where a Cloud PC is provisioned from policy, receives Intune configuration and is monitored separately from the user’s physical device. Compare what happens when image or network-connection settings are wrong.<\/p>\n
Add an App Control or ASR exception scenario using a harmless business application. Identify the exact setting causing the block, create the narrowest safe change and verify protection remains active elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Add a Delivery Optimization check during update testing. Observe whether peers or configured behavior can reduce repeated content downloads in a multi-device lab. This connects update policy with network efficiency.<\/p>\n
Add one BYOD selective-wipe scenario on paper or a disposable device. Remove organizational app data while preserving personal content. This reinforces why ownership determines the correct remote action.<\/p>\n
Add one alerting exercise for enrollment failure, compliance drift or configuration conflict. The endpoint team should learn about fleet issues proactively instead of waiting for users to report them one by one.<\/p>\n
Document all lab actions with target, policy, expected state and validation. That habit matters because Intune is eventually consistent; without notes, an administrator can mistake propagation delay for a new failure and create conflicting changes.<\/p>\n
Add a Windows Backup\/Restore tabletop. Assume a managed user’s physical device is replaced and trace which settings\/data are restored, what still comes from Intune\/Autopilot, and what support checks confirm the user is productive again.<\/p>\n
Add an app-install detection-rule experiment with a harmless Win32 app. Change the detection condition and observe how Intune reports installed versus not detected. This clarifies why deployment success depends on both installation and detection logic.<\/p>\n
Add one Defender-to-Intune incident handoff. Start from a harmless Defender alert or sample event, inspect the device in Defender, then return to Intune to review configuration\/compliance and decide whether management policy should change.<\/p>\n
Add one compliance-drift remediation. Make a test device fail a simple requirement, observe Conditional Access impact where safe, correct the condition, sync, and confirm the device returns to compliant state.<\/p>\n
At the end, export or save enough screenshots\/config notes to reproduce the lab from scratch. A lab is far more valuable when another administrator can follow the same enrollment, profile, app, security and reporting path without your memory.<\/p>\n
Add a reporting\/export exercise. Filter an Intune report, export data, and explain how an operations team could use it for trend review or escalation. Reporting becomes more practical when it answers a fleet-level question.<\/p>\n
Add one configuration-conflict lab with two harmless settings that disagree. Observe the reported conflict, remove the overlap, sync, and verify the device converges. This is safer and more educational than repeatedly creating new profiles around the same setting.<\/p>\n
Run one final lab handoff where another person follows your documented steps to enroll or troubleshoot a disposable device. If they can reproduce the result without asking what you clicked, your notes have become an operational artifact rather than a personal memory aid.<\/p>\n
Add one device-offboarding drill. For a disposable corporate device, decide whether to retire, wipe, reset, remove company data, rotate recovery material, and remove stale group assignments. Then verify the object and user lifecycle is clean. Endpoint administration includes safe removal from management, not only enrollment and deployment.<\/p>\n
Before closing the lab, capture one known-good baseline for enrollment, compliance, security, app deployment, update state, and Endpoint Analytics. Future failures are much easier to diagnose when you can compare them with a validated healthy device.<\/p>\n
Finish with a runbook showing identity, enrollment, deployment, policy, security, apps, support, monitoring and remediation. That end-to-end evidence reflects the actual MD-102 administrator workflow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MD-102 is best prepared with a small Microsoft 365\/Intune lab because the current role spans enrollment, deployment, configuration, security, apps, support, automation and analytics. One test tenant, a Windows VM or spare device, and access to evaluation-capable features can make the objectives far more memorable than portal screenshots. Use the current MD-102 July 24 blueprint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1648,1647],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26458,"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457\/revisions\/26458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.examlabs.com\/certification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}