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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 an iOS compliance policy

After setting up our Android policy, we can now look at iOS devices. As with other policies, we will start by looking at the available settings and what they require before looking at configuring the policy and how it works.

Getting started

We will start by looking at all of the available settings and what they require.

Compliance settings

Let us run through all of the settings available for iOS devices.

Email

We will start with the single setting under the Email heading:

  • Unable to set up email on the device: The device must use a managed account configured via Intune. Any accounts that were manually added previously will need to be removed before the device can be marked as compliant.

Device Health

Now, we can review the options for Device Health:

  • Jailbroken devices: Any jailbroken devices will be blocked on iOS 8.0 and above.
  • Require the device to be at or under the Device Threat Level: The options...