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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)

Monitoring device compliance

After monitoring device configuration, we also need to keep an eye on device compliance, especially as this is going to cause the most complaints once users are restricted to non-compliant devices.

Getting ready

To access these reports, click on Devices and then Compliance.

You will then be taken to the Monitor tab where we can access our next six reports.

How to do it...

We will start by looking at non-compliant devices and then run through the other available reports.

Noncompliant devices

Starting with noncompliant devices, this report is fairly self-explanatory and displays any devices across all platforms (including Linux) that are failing any compliance policy applied. If a device has multiple policies, a single failure will send the whole device into non-compliance.

You have the standard columns and Export button, along with a search option to search device name, device ID, username, user email, user ID, IMEI, or serial number...