Microsoft Intunes interface is very intuitive with a lot of functions. Although most, if not all, of these features are very familiar to a long-time IT worker such as myself, it’s great that Microsoft has decided to go the “Meraki” route to assemble these sets of very useful tool sets for administrators. Migration to cloud services (namely SaaS) is the order of the day. Dinosaurs ‘like’ myself need to adapt or perish. If given a choice, of course we would adapt, as a the learning curve for this portal isn’t as steep as the original Microsoft Engineering certification marathon, which many old timers must endure to be able to get a job a few decades ago.
Intunes Overview:
Generally, there are 2 setup models: Pure Microsoft Office 365 cloud management or Hybrid, where on-premise AD provisions and authenticates user accounts while being linked to Intunes for additional controls.
Intunes Admin Center Menus:
– Home: button to return to main menu
– Favorites: pin frequently used menus here
– Identity: Microsoft Entra ID
– Overview:
– Users: all user accounts, service and end-user types
– Groups: grouping of users
– Devices:
– View and control device settings
– List of devices in Azure Intunes and AD joined
– LAPS configurations
– Enterprise State Roaming: store roaming profiles in Azure
– Automatic Enrollment, co-management, etc.
– Apple devices: MDM push certificates enrollment
– Push scripts, configurations (restricts Internet, apps deployment), etc
– Compliance policies: require passwords, jail-locks, etc.
– controls whether users can print, backup to iCloud, copy-paste, etc.
– Applications
– Deploy apps
– App protection policies
– Billing
– Settings:
– Mobility: option to control mobile devices
– Protection:
– Endpoint security:
– Firewall settings
– Antivirus
– Disk encryption
– Update rings: drivers, MS Updates (with schedules)
– Identity governance
– External Identities
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