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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)

Chapter materials

Before starting, we will not be covering MSI Line-of-business applications as it is best practice to wrap these into a Win32 application, which is extremely straightforward. There are a couple of reasons for this:

  • MSI Line-of-Business applications execute using the standard msiexec service, whereas Win32 uses the Intune Management Extension (IME) to deploy. This means that neither is aware of the other, which can lead to clashes during Autopilot provisioning, where the installer service is busy on the other application.
  • Win32 applications give significantly more functionality around requirements, detection, and supersedence, none of which are available with an MSI Line-of-Business deployment.

Assigning applications

We also need to look at assignment options as they are the same across all app types. We have the following three options:

  • Required: This will force an install and will only appear in Company Portal under Installed Applications...