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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 ESP

The final step before we can deploy a Windows device using Autopilot is to configure our ESP. This is the screen that users see after entering their credentials during OOBE and displays the progress of their device configuration and onboarding. It also has the potential to be where you will experience most of your issues, so be sure to check out the There’s more… section for some troubleshooting tips.

How to do it…

Follow these instructions:

  1. First, navigate to Devices, then click on Enrollment. Select Windows and then Enrollment Status Page.

    You can have multiple pages configured that are queried according to their priority (and then also queried for group membership).

    As the ESP is used to block a device until a particular subset of applications has been installed, you may find yourself needing more than one, should different departments/regions/groups have key applications that must be installed before they can log in and use the...