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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)

Setting up a security baseline

Security baselines are a quick start group of settings selected by Microsoft to quickly secure your tenant. They are available for Windows, Edge, Windows 365, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

While they do not have the granularity of using the more bespoke Settings catalog-backed policies (covered in this chapter), they are a quick, easy, and useful way to get you up and running.

Should you decide to move to the more dedicated policies, make sure you change the associated setting in your baseline to Not configured; otherwise, you will find yourself with policy conflicts. There is an example JSON extract in this book’s GitHub repository that you can import (using the script found at https://andrewstaylor.com/2022/12/07/intune-backing-up-and-restoring-your-environment-new-and-improved/) into your environment and amend accordingly to get you started.

Microsoft also updates the baseline policies on a regular cadence to ensure you are always...