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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 update policies for macOS

As with our Windows and iOS devices, we want to make sure they run the latest available OS version to increase security across the estate. For macOS, this is accomplished using an update policy, which can either be created within the Software updates template in Profiles, the Software Update category in the settings catalog, or by using a specific menu item. To keep things standardized across platforms, in this example, we will use the specific update policies menu so you always know where to look for your updates. As with Windows devices, for a large macOS estate, it is worth using deployment rings so that updates can be tested prior to large-scale deployment.

How to do it…

Follow the following steps:

  1. Start by clicking on Devices and then macOS.
  2. Then, click Update policies for macOS.
  3. Click Create profile.
  4. As usual, we will start with a name and description, and then click Next.
  5. On the next screen, you can select...