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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 an antivirus policy

This recipe will run through how to configure your antivirus policy and also configure the UI on your end user devices to restrict what the user can and cannot see.

How to do it…

We will start with the antivirus policy:

  1. Navigate to Endpoint security in Intune, click Antivirus, and then click Create Policy.

Important note

You may have noticed the Reusable settings tab at the top. This is currently only for firewall rules, so you can ignore it for now. We will cover it in the Configuring Windows Firewall recipe.

  1. For the policy type, select Microsoft Defender Antivirus in the Profile dropdown. We will cover Security Experience in the Configuring Windows Security Experience recipe.
  2. Set the policy’s Name and Description.
  3. Configure the settings as per your environment. If there are any you are not sure about, the lowercase i in a circle next to each field will give you further details. Once your settings...