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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 Hello for Business

Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) provides multi-factor authentication (MFA) on Windows devices via either PIN, biometrics (face, fingerprint), or a FIDO2 security key.

This can be configured either at a tenant level (via the Device Enrollment menu) or at a more granular level using Settings catalog. In this recipe, we will cover both methods, starting with the tenant level, as that needs to be left set to Not Configured for Settings catalog to work.

The recommended approach is to use Settings catalog.

How to do it…

We will start this recipe by covering how to enable WHfB in the GUI.

Configuring at the tenant level

Follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Devices, then Enrollment, and click on the Windows tab. Then, click on Windows Hello for Business.

    This will load a fly-out window where we can configure the Configure Windows Hello for Business and Use security keys for sign-in settings.

  2. Change Configure Windows Hello...