: Andrew Taylor
: Microsoft Intune Cookbook Over 75 recipes for configuring, managing, and automating your identities, apps, and endpoint devices
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Microsoft Intune is a powerful 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.

Preface


Microsoft Intune is a market-leadingMobile Device Management (MDM) tool for securely managing your Apple iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows devices anywhere inthe world.

With the rapid move to hybrid working and more employees now wanting flexibility, traditional device management tools such as Active Directory are limited for staff working outside of the office, without implementing complicated AlwaysOn VPN.

As Microsoft Intune is fully cloud-based, devices can be managed comprehensively from any location. This can be further improved by implementing Windows Autopilot for machine provisioning, and devices can be shipped directly to end users with no input required from theIT department.

Configuring your new environment to work reliably can be a daunting task with multiple options to configure settings, and this is whereMicrosoft Intune Cookbook can help, running through every stage, from purchasing your licenses to enrolling your devices in aworking environment.

On top of this, automation is a key part of working with IT systems; automating a repeatable task reduces the risk of user error as well as significantly improving productivity. As well as demonstrating how to configure your environment in the web portal, this book will also show you how to leverage Microsoft PowerShell and Microsoft Graph to automate your daily tasks. For this purpose, several recipes have anAutomating itsection included.

Included at the following URL are links to some excellent community resources, which are worth reading and following as you embark on yourIntune journey:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Intune-Cookbook/blob/main/blogs-links-communities.md

Note that during the writing of this book, Microsoft renamedAzure Active Directory toMicrosoft Entra ID, so there may be occasions where the old Azure Active Directory naming is used, especially in screenshots where the portals had notbeen updated.

Who this book is for


This book is ideal for anyone either starting out on their Intune journey or existing Intune users who want to learn Microsoft Graphfor automation.

This could be system administrators, end-user computer administrators, cloud administrators, or even support staff looking to take the next step upthe ladder.

As it is a hands-on cookbook, while it touches on architectural considerations, the primary demographic is technical staff who are implementinga solution.

While the book does not cover the basics of PowerShell scripting, you should be able to follow the scripts with a limited knowledge ofPowerShell commands.

What this book covers


Chapter 1,Getting Started with Microsoft Intune, is an introduction to Intune. It takes a look at licensing requirements and setting up the first tenant. It then moves onto Entra ID, covering MDM andMobile Application Management (MAM) enrollment scopes, the creation of both static and dynamic groups, and then assigning roles and looking atdevice settings.

Chapter 2,Configuring Your New Tenant for Windows Devices, looks at the policy options availab