Book Image

Microsoft Intune Cookbook

By : Andrew Taylor
Book Image

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)

Learning about Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile Application Management

Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile Application Management (MAM) is a way to require applications to connect to an on-prem VPN solution on an unmanaged device running Android or iOS.

Getting started

Microsoft Tunnel for MAM extends the existing Tunnel VPN functionality. Therefore a pre-requisite is for the Microsoft Tunnel connection to be active and connected to your on-premises environment.

More information about setting up Microsoft Tunnel can be found here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/protect/microsoft-tunnel-configure

For devices running Android, both the Company Portal and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint apps need to be deployed to them. There are no app requirements for iOS.

How to do it…

Microsoft Tunnel for MAM is configured within app protection policies. We covered the creation of these in Chapter 5, Android Device Management and Chapter 6, Apple iOS Device Management....