Centralized Desktop Management – How to install ManageEngine Desktop Central

I was never much desktop oriented on this blog, but desktop management is something that is crucial for every company. Mobile devices, desktops, BYOD trend, working from home… Many scenarios in which you don’t have control over your entire network, and these endpoint devices can make huge damage on your network. I will make quick series of articles which will focus on centralized desktop management in your environment.

Before we begin

First of all – this is not a sponsored article, my blog so far in these last 10 years was free of advertisements and paid articles – I write about what I use and what I test/like. ManageEngine Desktop Central is one of the tools I test.

There are many contestants in this area, and ManageEngine is one of these. We will focus on that product here.

You can find more details about ManageEngine Desktop Central here – https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/desktop-central-lan-architecture.html

Prerequisites

In this article we will only install ManageEngine Desktop Central. I selected On-premise trial version

https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/free-trial.html

I really haven’t prepared much – I made one Windows Server 2019 DTCNT VM, with 8GB of RAM, 4cores, 250GB HDD and one LAN interface. Machine is joined to my domain and I’m logged in as domain admin on it.