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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)

Using the Microsoft Store integration

We start by looking at the Microsoft Store integration, which no longer uses the Microsoft Store for Business and instead integrates directly into the store source within Winget. This is also how Windows applications such as Notepad and Calculator are deployed and updated.

Important note

Store apps that are deployed via Intune will continue to receive updates even if the Windows Store is blocked for end users via a policy.

Fortunately, this change has also reduced the number of steps to deploy an application!

How to do it…

Follow these steps to deploy your first Windows Store application:

  1. To start, click Apps and then Windows.
  2. Click Add.
  3. In the fly-out, select Microsoft Store app (new) (it may just be called Microsoft Store app), and click Select.
  4. Click Search the Microsoft Store app (new).
  5. In the fly-out, search for the application you are looking for.

Important note

It is worth noting that...