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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 Windows Firewall

When we look at Windows Firewall, we will be introduced to the Reusable settings option. An environment will often have multiple firewall policies for different user and device groups to allow a piece of software to run or to further restrict a selection of devices. The idea behind Reusable Settings is that you can configure your specific firewall rules and then apply those across policies without needing to manually add them each time.

To give you an idea, this rule would block all Google domains:

Figure 3.5 – Windows Firewall – Reusable Settings

Figure 3.5 – Windows Firewall – Reusable Settings

In this recipe, we will stick with a basic firewall to block incoming traffic and allow outbound traffic as our first line of defense.

How to do it…

Now that we have looked at reusable settings, follow these steps to configure the standard Microsoft Defender firewall policy:

  1. In the portal, navigate to Endpoint security, then Firewall. Choose Create...