Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Manoj Jain

Brian Stuart Perlman

Peter J Kaufman

Shayak Lahiri

Sean Anderson Bowles

Haipeng Li

Venkata Raghuram Pampana

Peter John Richards

Dhruma Kishan Parikh

Hung Minh Dang

Yanan Zhang

Archan Das

William Saunders Jack, Iii

Michael Sean Kirby

Helen Harmetz

Abigail Christine Motley

Padmanabhan Vasu

This document relates to a process for supporting the management of a variety of types of deployed devices. Administrators utilizing enterprise services can provide generic configuration data using configuration templates, which can be provided to a management server. The management server can then precompute device-specific configuration settings and resolve any conflicts that may arise based on the configuration templates. The configuration templates can also include placeholders for secret values, and once a managed device checks in to the management server, the secret values can be retrieved from an applicable enterprise service and provided to the managed device at the time of applying the configuration template.

Secure management of devices

This document relates to a process for deploying devices and automatically provisioning the devices to connect to a managed network upon powering on with minimal user involvement. Upon deployment of the device to an end point, a record can be established in a management server regarding the device, which can associate device specifications with a deployment profile to be used in provisioning the device. Upon powering on of the device at the end point, the device can automatically perform attestation with the management server, which can then provision the device according to the deployment profile without additional user intervention.

Securely configuring target devices using device identity

Described herein is technology for, among other things, a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is made up of multiple user interface components. The multiple user interface components are hosted by a host user interface, which encapsulates and exposes the user interface components together to present a unified view of the user interface components as a single user interface. Moreover, the host user interface presents the capabilities of the user interface components as a whole.

Host controlled user interface

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