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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)

Packaging into MSIX

MSIX is one of the newer packaging formats available and operates by monitoring an application installation, grabbing any changes to the filesystem, registry, and so on, and then wrapping them into a single file that can be installed at the user level. One advantage of MSIX is that you can use it as AppAttach on Azure Virtual Desktop environments to make applications available on a per-user level rather than having to install it directly onto the host machine in a multi-user environment.

Important note

An MSIX package can be reverted by the end user, do not package any applications that have a database included, as reverting will wipe any additions that have been made. Client-server apps are fine, but not those with databases built into them.

Getting started

There are some prerequisites for MSIX packages:

  • Code signing certificate: All packages have to be signed before deployment. You have two options here – you can either purchase a public...