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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 Endpoint Privilege Management

Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) is a mechanism for elevating particular applications for end users without granting them administrative rights across the device. This could be for a particular line-of-business application that requires elevation or for your helpdesk to be able to run particular tools on devices. We can configure rules for EPM to allow automatic elevation or have it require approval first.

This recipe will demonstrate how to configure EPM and then add a file rule to allow a particular application to run elevated.

How to do it…

First, we will run through how to configure EPM in the UI:

  1. Navigate to Endpoint security and click on Endpoint Privilege Management.
  2. We need to start with a settings policy, so click Create and then, in the fly-out, select Windows 10 and later and Elevation settings policy. Then, click the Create button.
  3. Give your policy a Name and Description and click Next.
  4. On...