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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)

Deploying apps to macOS

We have configured and protected our devices, but the end users are going to want to have some applications deployed as well. Within Intune, there are a number of options available:

  • Microsoft 365 Apps: A GUI to deploy M365 apps (covered later)
  • Microsoft Edge: To deploy Edge version 77 and later (Chromium) (covered later)
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: To protect your devices (covered later)
  • Web link: Deploy a URL to the desktop
  • Line-of-business app: Deploy a custom pkg application
  • macOS app (DMG): Upload and deploy a DMG-based application (covered later)
  • App Store app: Similar to iOS, this deploys a VPP app from the App Store (covered later)

Getting started

For this recipe, make sure you have a DMG file available to deploy, and also access to either ABM or Apple Education to deploy applications from the App Store.

How to do it…

All of these instructions will be from Apps and then macOS apps in the Intune...