Deploying a Linux compliance policy

This is a relatively new addition to Intune. While we cannot currently deploy configuration or applications to Linux devices, we can configure compliance policies, primarily for Ubuntu-based devices to ensure that any devices accessing corporate data meet the same standards across platforms.

Getting started

Again, we will start by looking at the available settings. One of the first things to note is that Linux compliance uses Settings catalog to configure as it is a much newer addition.

Allowed Distributions

Under Allowed Distributions, we have the following option:

• Type: At the time of writing, the only option is Ubuntu, but you can set minimum and maximum versions. The version numbers can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases.

Custom Compliance

Within Custom Compliance, we have the following single setting:

• Require custom compliance: This will be covered in greater depth in the next recipe, but instead...