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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 device restrictions

Device restrictions are an often overlooked yet critical part of managing your Intune environment. With the inclusion of MAM across platforms, the first step is to block the enrollment of personal devices, which can only be performed within Intune.

You can also specify device limits, as well as operating system versions and even manufacturers and models of devices!

How to do it…

There are two different settings to configure here: device limit restrictions and device platform restrictions. We will look at device limit restrictions first.

Device limit restrictions

To set up device limit restrictions, follow these steps:

  1. Click on Devices, then Enrollment.
  2. Select any platform and click Device limit restriction.

    Here, you can create new restrictions or edit the default restriction, which applies to all. The restrictions are queried in numerical order, with the highest number being queried first. When it finds the restriction...