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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)

Adding an app protection policy

We have now configured policies for our corporate-owned devices to keep them secured and managed, but what about devices owned by users who want to access their email and other corporate apps on their personal devices? One option is to block this completely, but for most, that is not ideal, and we will just end up with a much larger list of corporate devices to purchase and manage.

Another option is to do nothing and let them add the apps completely unmanaged, but from a data protection perspective, this is a security concern as you have no control over your corporate data.

For this, we can use app protection policies and enroll devices into Mobile Application Management (MAM) instead of Mobile Device Management (MDM). Both can be used for additional security, but this would be unusual as it will add extra steps for the users on their devices, and we can assume a managed device is secure at the device layer. We do not want users fully enrolling...