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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)

Deploying Windows LAPS

Although it has been around for years for on-premises directories, this is a very new addition for Entra-managed devices, largely due to the inclusion of the LAPS client within Windows itself rather than needing an additional MSI and AD (Active Directory) schema update.

Before looking at deploying LAPS, it is first worth understanding what it does and why you may want to use it. LAPS is a system that rotates the local admin password on a machine to add an extra layer of security as it ensures no two machines have the same password; this helps prevent lateral traversal attacks.

With the introduction of Autopilot, Intune, and Entra ID, this was removed as the admin account was disabled by default. There are options available for managing these devices (such as the Cloud Joined Device Local Admin Role or Local User Group Membership), but they both have disadvantages (the role is for all devices and the membership is one policy per device).

Windows LAPS...