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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)

Future developments

As mentioned at the start of the chapter, Intune Suite is still being heavily developed, and at the time of writing, there have been two future features that have been announced but not yet released. In this section, we will look at these features based on the information currently available.

Advanced Application Management

The first addition is Advanced Application Management. As you know from Chapter 11, Packaging Your Windows Applications, packaging your applications is relatively time-consuming, and you also have to keep them updated, which can involve regularly checking the vendor’s website, packaging, testing, and deploying.

To make this process simpler, Microsoft is looking to add a curated selection of pre-packaged applications that can be deployed through a simple UI in the portal. These applications will also be kept updated and allow for a simple method of updating pre-deployed applications.

Hopefully, this will also include an API...