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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)

Managing app supersedence and dependencies

This recipe looks at the functionality around application supersedence and application dependencies. As it involves amending existing applications we will not be looking at automating and instead why you would use these and how to implement them.

Application supersedence

When a new version of an application is released, you have a few available options:

  • Replace the IntuneWin file with a new one and amend the detection method so that it matches the newer version
  • Create a new application and swap the assignments
  • Use application supersedence

Everything will work fine, but supersedence gives you the option to remove the previous version before installing, or just do a straight update. It also makes things easier to manage as you do not have to worry about duplicate assignments or monitoring multiple applications.

Dependencies

One drawback of Intune/Autopilot is their inability to sequence applications like Configuration...