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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 a custom policy

While the Settings catalog (and other options in the following recipes) will capture 99% of your needs in a standard environment, there may be times when you need to set CSP settings directly on machines and there is no template available.

For this recipe, we are going to use the policy that skips the User Settings section within the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) (there will be more on that in Chapter 4), which can be useful if you are happy that all of the key apps are targeted at the device setup and you do not want users to wait for the user-targeted apps to finish installing.

A custom Open Mobile Alliance Uniform Resource Identifier (OMA-URI) policy allows you to directly set the CSP settings, but you have to be careful that what you enter matches exactly what is expected, as these policies are very exact and will fail if a setting is incorrect.

Getting ready

As mentioned, for this example, we will skip the user status page, details of which...