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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 enrollment profiles

Now that our Google Play account has been linked, we can configure a profile to allow devices to be enrolled. This will provide us with a QR code and text code we can use when setting up a new device.

Before we run through the process of creating a profile, we need to understand all of the options available on the Android device enrollment screen:

  • Zero-touch enrollment: This is a way of bulk enrolling devices into your profile without needing to configure any steps during device configuration and enrollment (similar to Apple iOS and Apple Business Manager Automated Device Enrollment (ADE), which will be covered in the next chapter). It requires specific devices that have to be enrolled into the service by the distributor or service provider. Samsung Knox is a popular example that is free to configure and use, as well as Android Zero Touch for non-Samsung devices.
  • Personally-owned devices with work profile: This button just loads an information...