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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)

macOS Device Management

The last of the different platforms covered in this book (at the time of writing, Linux and ChromeOS management are still too limited) is macOS. We will look at configuring and then deploying a corporate device. For this, we will use the Apple Business Manager (or Apple Education) configuration, which is explained in the Technical requirements section (as well as in the previous chapter on iOS).

The chapter will cover the configuration of profiles for your macOS devices as well as their enrollment.

We will also run through the process of configuring Intune to work with Apple Business Manager and deploy applications, using the Volume Purchase Program.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Configuring a macOS Settings catalog policy
  • Deploying shell scripts to macOS
  • Configuring update policies for macOS
  • Deploying apps to macOS
  • Configuring a macOS enrollment profile
  • Enrolling your corporate device