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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)

Deploying Office applications

The Microsoft Office Suite of Applications (now known as Microsoft 365 apps) is more than likely one of the most important applications required on your devices. For that reason, we need to be sure they are deployed correctly, reliably, and ideally forced on the Enrollment Status Page (ESP).

Getting started

Within Intune, there are three different ways to deploy Microsoft 365 apps, one of which is a lot more consistent than the other. The best method is to wrap it as a Win32 application using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT). We will cover this in this recipe as we can then control the deployment of it during the ESP. We also know it will be installed using the Intune Management Extension (IME), which prevents applications from clashing.

Before we look at how to deploy as a Win32 application, we should look at the other options available within the portal – that is, using the graphical user interface (GUI) with either configuration designer...