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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)

Using custom requirements scripts in apps

Another PowerShell option is using custom requirements scripts. While the requirements rules are reasonably comprehensive, you may want to take these a step further – for example, only deploy an application if the device is manufactured by a particular company.

One particularly useful application for these is when you are updating available applications. As these are user-installed, when you deploy an update to them, the user has to manually install the latest version from the company portal (providing you have the detection rules set correctly to notice it needs re-installing). This is far from ideal, especially when you are dealing with a zero-day exploit.

In this situation, you can deploy an application as required to everyone and then set a requirements rule that it must detect the application is already present on the device to install.

These work differently and are closer to compliance scripts than remediation or detection...