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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 multi-admin approvals

Multi-admin approvals is a new feature that you can implement to provide an extra layer of security when you are making changes to an environment. At the time of writing, if configured, any scripts or applications that are deployed will need to be approved by a second administrator before they can go live. Anything other than scripts and applications is currently unsupported.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to set up multi-admin approvals in your tenant.

  1. Navigate to Tenant administration and click on Multi Admin Approval.

    Here, you can see any current requests (All requests), any requests you have submitted (My requests), and the policies that have been configured (Access policies).

  2. Click on Access policies and click + Create.
  3. Specify your policy’s Name and Description and select if it is for App or Script. Then, click Next.
  4. On the Approvers screen, you need to select a group that contains administrators who...