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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 a device restrictions policy

While we can now enroll a device, it will lack any configuration, and the user experience will be the same as any off-the-shelf device. For the full corporate experience, we need to configure a policy to manage them.

Android policies have yet to migrate to Settings catalog, so for this example, we are going to configure a device restrictions policy with some basic settings to set you on your way. The PowerShell script and included JSON will contain further settings.

How to do it…

Follow these steps:

  1. First, click on Devices in the Intune menu.
  2. Then, click Android.
  3. Now, click Configuration profiles.
  4. Finally, add a profile by clicking +Create | +New policy.
  5. Select Android Enterprise and then Device restrictions under Fully Managed, Dedicated and Corporate-Owned Work-Profile. Then, click Create.
  6. Give your policy a name and a description, and click Next.

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