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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 scope tags

We have seen scope tags throughout this book when we created various policies or applications. Now, it is time to learn what they are used for and how to create them.

First, we will clear up the differences between scope groups and scope tags.

Scope groups are configured within an Intune role and specify which users or devices an administrator can perform actions against for roles with actions configured. They are similar to administrative units within Entra ID, where administrators can be locked out from accessing all devices and users in the tenant.

Scope tags are configured on individual items within the tenant and can be used to allow or restrict access to these items. For example, you could configure a subset of your policies with a specific scope tag and allow only certain administrators to amend this policy. For larger organizations with multiple administrative teams, this can be useful to give the local admins some freedom, but only on their own devices...