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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)

Chapter materials

Before moving on to configuring our policies, there are a couple of things to keep in mind.

Firstly, some settings can be configured in multiple places, especially when looking at security policies, so it is always worth keeping in mind what you are configuring and where to avoid making conflicting policies. Even if a setting has the same value in two different policies, it will be marked as a conflict within the GUI.

The other thing is the concept of tattooing. Some settings when applied can leave the setting configured on a device when switched to Not Configured within Intune. If there is a setting with the Enabled or Not Configured options, changing it to Not Configured does not send a signal to undo the configuration on the device; it simply tells Intune not to do anything with that particular setting and leave it to whatever happens to be set on the device already. Normally, this will just be the default Windows settings, but if it is a policy you have...