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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)

Updating Office applications

Now that we have deployed our Office applications, we need to make sure they remain updated. As these are core apps, it is recommended to use a similar ring approach as what we used with Windows updates, both to check for any potential issues with the line of business and also to look for any significant UI changes that may need communicating with the organization.

Getting started

Before running through the preferred approach, there are different ways to handle Office updates. We will have a look at the two main options now and then run through the configuration.

Office portal

One option is to use the Office Admin portal itself, which can be accessed at https://config.office.com.

Here, you can configure Office policies to set any configuration setting via Policy Management and also use the Cloud Updates menu to handle updates and version deployment.

This is a good option, but as it falls outside of the Intune portal, it is another portal...