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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 a macOS enrollment profile

Before we enroll our first macOS device, we have one last task to complete – we need to configure an enrollment profile, the same as we completed in the previous chapter for iOS.

Getting started

For this recipe, you will need your Intune instance linked to ABM with an enrollment token configured. If you did not complete this in Chapter 6, complete the following recipes before continuing:

  • Configuring a connector between Apple and Intune
  • Adding enrollment profile tokens

How to do it…

Follow the following steps:

  1. First, select Devices and then macOS.
  2. Click macOS enrollment.
  3. Now, click on Enrollment program tokens.
  4. Click on the token created earlier:
Figure 7.16 – An Apple token

Figure 7.16 – An Apple token

  1. Next, click on Profiles, and if you set up an iOS profile earlier, you should see it here now.
  2. Select the drop-down arrow next to Create profile, and choose macOS...