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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)

Configuring Remediations

While Platform scripts are excellent for run-once scenarios such as when you are provisioning a device, PowerShell is incredibly powerful and there may be situations where you want something to run more than once, or you want to view the output in the console itself.

This is where Remediations (formerly Proactive Remediations) come into play. They can be set to run on a schedule, but as they work with a detection and remediation configuration, the script itself will only run if required.

A Remediation is split into two scripts: a Detection script and a Remediation script.

The detection script is arguably the most important of the two as this decides whether the Remediation script needs to run. The key output here is the exit code. An exit code of 0 means the device is compliant with the check and no further action is needed. If the exit code is 1, it causes the remediation to run.

There are no restrictions on the content of the scripts, so long...