Preface

Microsoft Intune is a market-leading Mobile Device Management (MDM) tool for securely managing your Apple iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows devices anywhere in the 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 Always On 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 the IT department.

Configuring your new environment to work reliably can be a daunting task with multiple options to configure settings, and this is where Microsoft Intune Cookbook can help, running through every stage, from purchasing your licenses to enrolling your devices in a working 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 an Automating it section included.

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

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

Note that during the writing of this book, Microsoft renamed Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID, so there may be occasions where the old Azure Active Directory naming is used, especially in screenshots where the portals had not been updated.