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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)

Using conditional access to restrict access based on compliance

There is one final step when using compliance policies. While we have some non-compliance settings configured to lock mobile devices, we are mostly just warning users that their device is not compliant, but this does not stop them from using them. We do not want devices that do not meet our criteria to access corporate data, unencrypted devices, devices with active malware, and more. For that, we need to set up a conditional access policy.

Important note

This conditional access policy is just for restricting non-compliant devices. For full tenant security, you will need to deploy further policies. Common policies from Microsoft can be found at the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/zero-trust-identity-device-access-policies-common?view=o365-worldwide.

You can also use some pre-configured templates directly from Entra, as covered here: https://learn.microsoft...