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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)

Group policy analytics

While it is generally recommended to create your new policies from scratch to reduce the amount of technical debt when migrating to Intune, you may have certain group policies configured in your on-premises Active Directory that you feel are good enough to be migrated directly to Intune. For this, we can use Group Policy analytics, which will ingest your policies, tell you which can be migrated, and also, if selected, migrate them for you.

Getting ready

The first thing we need is an XML export of the group policy we wish to inspect for compatibility with Intune. If you do not have a domain controller available, there is an example within GitHub here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Intune-Cookbook/blob/main/Chapter2/gpreport.xml:

  1. Within Active Directory, navigate to Group Policy Objects:
Figure 2.11 – Group Policy Objects

Figure 2.11 – Group Policy Objects

  1. Right-click on the Group Policy in question and click Back Up…...