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Microsoft Intune Cookbook

By : Andrew Taylor
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Microsoft Intune Cookbook

By: Andrew Taylor

Overview of this book

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-managed mobile device management (MDM) tool that empowers you to manage your end-user device estate across various platforms. While it is an excellent platform, the initial setup and configuration can be a daunting process, and mistakes made early on can be more challenging to resolve later. This book addresses these issues by guiding you through the end-to-end configuration of an Intune environment, incorporating best practices and utilizing the latest functionalities. In addition to setting up your environment, you’ll delve into the Microsoft Graph platform to understand the underlying mechanisms behind the web GUI. This knowledge will enable you to automate a significant portion of your daily tasks using PowerShell. By the end of this book, you’ll have established an Intune environment that supports Windows, Apple iOS, Apple macOS, and Android devices. You’ll possess the expertise to add new configurations, policies, and applications, tailoring an environment to your specific requirements. Additionally, you’ll have the ability to troubleshoot any issues that may arise and package and deploy your company applications. Overall, this book is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to learn how to use Microsoft Intune to manage their organization's end-user devices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Checking Windows updates via reporting

Windows Update reports are likely to be the most useful and most used reports within Intune, as tracking the status of Windows Updates is key to security across the estate. We will start by looking at the built-in reports, and then in the next recipe will take things further and introduce Log Analytics for finer control.

Due to the extra selections required to generate these reports, the inputs do not lend themselves to automation as it would be a similar number of textboxes and clicks to achieve the same result. Therefore, in this recipe, we will not cover automating them. If, however, this is of interest, it uses the same export/import POST requests as with many of the earlier reports here.

Getting ready

Within the Intune portal, click on Reports, then click Windows updates, and finally, click the Reports tab.

How to do it…

There are multiple reports available here, so we will start by looking at how to run them, and then...