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Configuring Windows 10 Devices: Manage Updates and Recovery

This course is part of the Configuring Windows 10 Devices series and focuses on managing updates and recovery. Topics include: using Windows update services, configuring and managing operating system recovery, and configuring file recovery services.

Mark Wilkins - Pluralsight course - Configuring Windows 10 Devices: Manage Updates and Recovery
by Mark Wilkins
Glenn Weadock - Pluralsight course - Configuring Windows 10 Devices: Manage Updates and Recovery
by Glenn Weadock

What you'll learn

This course deals with the configuration and management of Windows updates and recovery services for Windows 10 enterprise clients. In this course, Configuring Windows 10 Devices: Manage Updates and Recovery, you will gain the ability to configure updates for both standalone and domain-based Windows 10 systems including operating system updates, device driver updates, update rollbacks, and Windows defender. First, you'll learn about configuring system recovery including the available Windows 10 recovery options for proper system restore, including advanced startup, device driver rollback, using system restore, and restarting with a system image. Next, you'll explore the set up and management of backup and restore using file history and previous versions. Finally, you'll discover system stability, which includes monitoring events by setting up subscription services with the event viewer, troubleshooting using the reliability monitor, performance monitor data collector sets, and the use of the resource monitor, system configuration, and system information utilities. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Windows 10 devices needed to manage updates and recovery. This course also maps to the Microsoft 70-697 exam objectives.

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About the authors

Mark Wilkins - Pluralsight course - Configuring Windows 10 Devices: Manage Updates and Recovery
Mark Wilkins

Mark is a former electronic design technologist turned Microsoft and IBM SoftLayer cloud geek. Mark has created many instructor led, e-learning, and self-paced courses over the last 15 years from Active Directory to Group Policy and enjoys training and sharing information to help people understand technology. He is also an avid musician and composer.

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Glenn Weadock - Pluralsight course - Configuring Windows 10 Devices: Manage Updates and Recovery
Glenn Weadock

Glenn E. Weadock, MCITP, MCSE, MCSA, MCT, MDAA, A+, is the president of Independent Software Inc., which he founded in 1982 after graduating from Stanford University's engineering school. ISI provides expert witness, consulting, and training services in the IT field with a focus on Microsoft networking technologies.

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