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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)

Chapter materials

As with Chapters 2, 5, and 6, this will not cover all available policy types, so we will run through them all now to get a better understanding of what is available for macOS devices. As with Windows and iOS, macOS policy settings have now been largely migrated to the settings catalog.

The available profile types are as follows:

  • Settings catalog: The unified settings catalog is a more modern way to deploy settings.
  • Custom: This lets you upload a .mobileconfig file created in Profile Manager to configure settings not yet available elsewhere. We will cover this briefly in the following shell scripts recipe. Some examples can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/shell-intune-samples/tree/master/macOS.
  • Device restrictions: These are an alternative to the settings catalog for your standard restrictions.
  • Device features: Device restrictions are used to protect and lock down devices. Device features set various custom settings, such as lock...