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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 iOS update settings

We may also want to manage software updates on our iOS and iPadOS devices in a similar way to feature updates on Windows devices. This could be ensuring they are always up to date, restricting devices to a certain version, or specifying when to install an update. To do this, we use an update policy.

One important thing to note is that this does not stop users from manually searching for and installing updates, but you can set a deferral of up to 90 days using device restrictions (either in a device restrictions policy or the settings catalog).

How to do it…

Follow these instructions:

  1. To create the new policy, navigate to Devices and then iOS/iPadOS.
  2. Now select Update policies for iOS/iPadOS and click Create profile.
  3. As usual, input a basic name and description and click Next.

    On the next screen, we set the policy itself. The first option lets you select which OS version to install on your devices. If you leave it set to...