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title: Management functionalities for Surface devices
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description: Management capabilities offered to Surface devices, including firmware management and the Surface Management Portal
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ms.date: 08/31/2022
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ms.prod: windows
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ms.technology: windows
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ms.topic: tutorial
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ms.localizationpriority: medium
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author: paolomatarazzo
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ms.author: paoloma
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#ms.reviewer:
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manager: aaroncz
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ms.collection: education
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appliesto:
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- ✅ <b>Surface devices</b>
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# Management functionalities for Surface devices
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Microsoft Surface devices offer many advanced management functionalities, including the possibility to manage firmware settings and a web portal designed for them.
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## Manage device firmware for Surface devices
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Surface devices use a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) setting that allows you to enable or disable built-in hardware components, protect UEFI settings from being changed, and adjust device boot configuration. With [Device Firmware Configuration Interface profiles built into Intune][INT-1], Surface UEFI management extends the modern management capabilities to the hardware level. Windows can pass management commands from Intune to UEFI for Autopilot-deployed devices.
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DFCI supports zero-touch provisioning, eliminates BIOS passwords, and provides control of security settings for boot options, cameras and microphones, built-in peripherals, and more. For more information, see [Manage DFCI on Surface devices][SURF-1] and [Manage DFCI with Windows Autopilot][MEM-1], which includes a list of requirements to use DFCI.
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:::image type="content" source="./images/dfci-profile.png" alt-text="Creation of a DFCI profile from Microsoft Endpoint Manager" lightbox="./images/dfci-profile-expanded.png" border="true":::
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## Microsoft Surface Management Portal
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Located in the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center, the Microsoft Surface Management Portal enables you to self-serve, manage, and monitor your school's Intune-managed Surface devices at scale. Get insights into device compliance, support activity, warranty coverage, and more.
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When Surface devices are enrolled in cloud management and users sign in for the first time, information automatically flows into the Surface Management Portal, giving you a single pane of glass for Surface-specific administration activities.
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To access and use the Surface Management Portal:
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1. Sign in to <a href="https://endpoint.microsoft.com/" target="_blank"><b>Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center</b></a>
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1. Select **All services** > **Surface Management Portal**
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:::image type="content" source="./images/surface-management-portal.png" alt-text="Surface Management Portal within Microsoft Endpoint Manager" lightbox="./images/surface-management-portal-expanded.png" border="true":::
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1. To obtain insights for all your Surface devices, select **Monitor**
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- Devices that are out of compliance or not registered, have critically low storage, require updates, or are currently inactive, are listed here
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1. To obtain details on each insights category, select **View report**
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- This dashboard displays diagnostic information that you can customize and export
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1. To obtain the device's warranty information, select **Device warranty and coverage**
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1. To review a list of support requests and their status, select **Support requests**
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[INT-1]: /intune/configuration/device-firmware-configuration-interface-windows
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[MEM-1]: /mem/autopilot/dfci-management
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[SURF-1]: /surface/surface-manage-dfci-guide
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