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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 your BitLocker policy

Another important thing to consider is BitLocker drive encryption. While antivirus and firewall protect the machine when in use, this protects the data if your machine is lost or stolen. You should always use the strongest encryption possible and make it a requirement for device compliance and conditional access (more on those in Chapter 8).

There are specific settings for this policy to enable silent encryption during Autopilot, so you need to make sure these are set correctly.

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to configure your BitLocker drive encryption policy:

  1. Within Endpoint security, click on Disk encryption and create a policy.

    Set the policy’s Name and Description and click Next.

  2. Set the Base Settings values as per the following screenshot:
Figure 3.1 – BitLocker – Base Settings

Figure 3.1 – BitLocker – Base Settings

  1. Set the Fixed Drive Settings values as per the following screenshot...