Microsoft Intune Cookbook: Over 75 recipes for configuring, managing, and automating your identities, apps, and endpoint devices - Softcover

Taylor, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1805126547 ISBN 13: 9781805126546

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Get started with Microsoft Intune and explore its many facets, including task automation with Microsoft Graph and PowerShell

Key Features

• Set up and configure a robust mobile device management (MDM) environment using best practices
• Implement and enforce compliance, security, and application policies to streamline device management
• Manage Windows, Android, iOS, and macOS devices seamlessly with Intune
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Set up your Intune tenant and associated platform connections
• Deploy and manage security and compliance policies of your organization's devices
• Package, deploy, and update your applications using Intune
• Monitor, report, and troubleshoot your environment with advanced tools
• Leverage PowerShell to automate your daily tasks
• Understand the underlying workings of the Microsoft Graph platform and how it interacts with Intune

Who this book is for

This book is for IT professionals, end-user device administrators, and system administrators looking to implement, optimize, or automate Microsoft Intune. Whether you’re transitioning from on-premises management to cloud-based endpoint security or seeking to enhance your existing Intune deployment, this book provides practical solutions, automation strategies, and best practices to make device management seamless.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Microsoft Intune
2. Configuring Your New Tenant for Windows Devices
3. Securing Your Windows Devices with Security Policies
4. Setting Up Enrollment and Updates for Windows
5. Android Device Management
6. Apple iOS Device Management
7. macOS Device Management
8. Setting Up Your Compliance Policies
9. Monitoring Your New Environment
10. Looking at Reporting
11. Packaging Your Windows Applications
12. PowerShell Scripting Across Intune
13. Tenant Administration
14. Looking at Intune Suite

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Taylor is an End-User Compute architect with 20 years IT experience across industries and a particular interest in Microsoft Cloud technologies, PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. Andrew graduated with a degree in Business Studies in 2004 from Lancaster University and since then has obtained numerous Microsoft certifications including Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Cybersecurity Architect Expert amongst others. He currently working as an EUC Architect for an IT Company in the United Kingdom, planning and automating the products across the EUC space. Andrew lives on the coast in the North East of England with his wife and two daughters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1805126547
• ISBN 13: 9781805126546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 574