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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)

Securing Your Windows Devices with Security Policies

Chapter 2 showed you the basics of each of the core policy types, as well as what happens behind the scenes. This chapter will take that knowledge and extend it into the Endpoint Security blade within Microsoft Intune. You will find out how to secure your devices with the various policies and settings available.

We will configure the four policies that are most critical in a new environment: Antivirus, BitLocker, Firewall, and Advanced surface reduction (ASR). These, combined with your baseline, will give you an excellent security footprint to build upon.

You can configure a lot of these security settings within standard policies as well as within Endpoint Security, but using the dedicated Endpoint security blade gives you a couple of advantages:

  • On the policy overview, you can see the status of your policies and devices, as well as running remedial actions where required
  • With Intune’s role-based access control...