Coming up,
we walk you through the top things to know about setting up and managing
your Surface Hub in your organization.
Including setting up device accounts.
The first run setup experience.
Managing with your preferred mobile device management solution.
Monitoring, using Operations Management Suite.
And finally, software updates.
Surface Hub runs a unique version of Windows 10 desktop
that is similar in many respects, but has some unique characteristics
that you'll want to plan for in your deployment.
The first thing you need to keep in mind is that you need to set up a device account.
Device accounts are used by the Surface Hub to do things like,
syncing their calendar against Exchange,
making Skype for Business calls,
and emailing digital whiteboards.
So here I am on my Surface Book
in the Office Admin Center.
I'm in resources.
I go down on rooms and equipment.
You can see that I've already provisioned a number of Surface Hub
resource accounts, that's what they're called in the Admin Center.
If I click on one,
we're going to be using Surface Hub 01 today.
You can see that I've got the room details here.
And I can edit my Exchange settings.
So for instance, if I wanted to limit how far out
the meeting room could accept meeting requests.
Or, if I wanted to change whether or not it can accept recurring meetings,
This is where I do that.
Now, you can use the tool to provision these accounts,
but if you have a complex environment,
or you're doing a lot of Surface Hubs
You're going to want to use our admin guide on the guidance there.
as well as the PowerShell scripts that we've built to help automate this process.
Now let's move to the initial setup of the Surface Hub
by going through the OOBE experience.
So I have here an 84-inch Surface Hub.
I'm going to show a few of the OOBE screens
that will give you clues about what to think about before you do you deployment.
Here we are at the start of OOBE.
This is what you see the first time you take the Surface Hub out of the box.
So the first that we'll do is
enter the device account information
that we just generated in the admin center.
Next we're going to give the device a friendly name.
This is what people will see when they're trying to miracast
and do projection.
And so, you want to give it something recognizable.
Perhaps name it after the room.
You also give it a device name.
And remember that the device name needs to be unique on the domain.
We're going to set up administrators next.
There's a number of ways to do that.
You can join
a local Active Directory domain.
You can use a Microsoft Azure Active Directory domain.
Or you can use a local admin.
Today we're going to use a local Active Directory domain.
So you'll need an account that has permissions to add a machine to the domain.
The last thing we're going to do
is in our security group
for users that have permissions to manage the Surface Hub.
That's it for OOBE.
So now let's take a tour of the settings experience on the Surface Hub.
So here we are at Welcome,
which is exactly what you'll see the first time you boot up your device
after having gone through the out-of-box experience.
So if I hit start,
go to the All Apps view.
You are going to launch our settings application.
Now again, only administrators have rights to manage these.
This is where you would use your security group.
And here's our settings view.
So everything from accessibility,
joining wireless networks,
and managing other devices will all be done from here.
If we go into our device view,
I could for instance
require a pin from anybody who's trying to project wirelessly device in miracast.
Let's take a look at device management.
So here I could configure operations management suite if I wanted to do that.
I could also go through settings
and make a template of my configuration.
And then using the Windows ICD,
I could capture that and use it to deploy the same set of settings
to other devices in my hub.
Of course, if you're managing many Surface Hub devices
out in your organization,
you're going to want to do that remotely.
Surface Hub supports
any mobile device management solution that supports Windows 10.
Including MobileIron and AirWatch.
Today we'll be demoing Intune.
Here I am on my Surface Book in the Intune dashboard.
And I'm going to create a new policy.
We need to select our additional Windows.
You'll look for Windows 10 team and later.
And create policy.
Once I go that open, I would give my policy a name.
And you can see all the settings that we can manage through mobile device management.
So for instance,
I can again require a pin for projection.
I could set up a maintenance window for when I want updates to be applied.
and reboot overnight.
And I could set up
operations management suite for telemetry.
So now that we've set up OMS,
let's talk a little bit about the telemetry story for Surface Hub.
Here I am in operations management suite
and I'm getting near real-time data about what's going on with Surface Hubs in my environment.
I can see what's going on in terms of Wired projection,
wireless projection,
where people are spending their time.
We've also set up a number of queries that you can actually hook up to your ticketing system.
So let's say for instance that
Surface Hubs are having an issue sycning their calendars against Exchange.
You can set up an alert that's connected to your ticketing system
that will allow you to go and investigate
what's going on your Exchange infrastructure
that's affecting the user experience on the Surface Hub.
The last thing we're going to talk about is updates on the Surface Hub.
One of the key things that you need to know about updates is
that on the Surface Hub we use monolithic packages.
Everything including the UFI, firmware, drivers,
operating system and even in-box applications
are applied all at once during the maintenance window.
What this ensures is that we never get out of sync
and so you get that appliance like experience
that you need to make sure that the device is always stable.
There are two technologies that you can use
to manage updates on the Surface Hub.
Windows update for business which is a new technology
that you can learn more about at the URL below.
Or you can use Windows Server Update Services.
I hope this gives you a good overview of your options
for managing and provisioning Surface Hubs inside your organization.
Surface Hubs provide rich manageability support using
familiar Microsoft technologies.
But, they may be different then managing PCs.
So be sure to plan ahead.
You can also learn more at the URL below
by referring to our administrator guide.
Keep watching Microsoft Mechanics for the latest updates on the design
and management of Surface Hubs.
Thanks for watching.
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