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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)

Enrolling your corporate device

Now, we have our environment configured to support and manage macOS devices, and we can enroll our first device. As these are generally corporate-owned machines, this recipe will only cover full ABM enrollment, and it is suggested to turn off personal enrollment of macOS devices.

If, however, you need to allow Bring Your own Device (BYOD) for macOS, you can find instructions here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/user-help/enroll-your-device-in-intune-macos-cp.

Getting started

For this recipe, you will need a factory reset device that is already enrolled into either ABM or Apple Education and connected to the internet. If you wish to use Apple Configurator on an iPhone to register your applications, follow the guide at the following link: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/apple-configurator/apd65c9ff558/ios.

How to do it…

Use the following steps:

  1. Upon booting your device, you will first be presented with...