Microsoft Intune fundamentals

Beginner
Administrator
Microsoft Endpoint Manager

This learning path will help you understand how to manage and protect your organization's data, devices, and apps. The first module explains the products and services that encompass Microsoft Intune, as well as the value that each provides. You'll learn about the Intune environment and the supported platforms, such iOS, Windows, and Android. As part of managing devices, you'll understand security rules, compliance policies, and access rights. For app management, you learn how apps can be assigned, managed, and protected. You'll also learn about configuring apps, protecting app data, managing app policy assignments, and implementing app security rules.

There are several benefits of using Microsoft Intune for your organization. These benefits are explained, including how Microsoft Intune increases security and productivity, provides flexibility, and maximizes your investment.

By completing this learning path, you'll:

  • Learn what endpoints are and what Microsoft Intune can do for you and your organization.
  • Learn about the different products, services, and capabilities that encompass Microsoft Intune.
  • Understand endpoint management considerations involving the endpoint environment and available platforms.
  • Learn about managing and protecting your organization's devices, apps and data.
  • Understand the how your organization's devices can be provisioned.
  • Learn about configuring and managing device security.
  • Learn about the different types of enrollment methods available using Microsoft Intune.
  • Understand the device and app management lifecycles.
  • Understand how your organization's apps can be configured and protected.
  • Understand how trusted users can access organizational resources on trusted devices using trusted apps.
  • Learn how to analyze and resolve endpoint compliance issues.
  • Understand the benefits of using Microsoft Intune.

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with basic device concepts
  • Familiarity with security and cloud concepts

Modules in this learning path

Microsoft Intune is a strategic infrastructure for managing and protecting an organization's endpoints, which include the organization's devices, apps, and data. Intune also helps ensure that users have the best experience with productivity apps like Microsoft 365. This module describes the products and services that make up Intune and how they help protect your organization's endpoints.

In this module, you learn about protecting devices, apps, and data. Additionally, you understand the endpoint environment and the supported platforms available with Microsoft Intune.

As part of device management, Intune helps you protect device data, manage policy assignments, ensure proper device access, implement device security rules, and resolve device compliance issues.

As part of application management, Microsoft Intune helps you configure apps, protect app data, manage app policy assignments, and implement app security rules.

Microsoft Intune uses groups to assign policies, such as Conditional Access policies and endpoint security policies. Conditional Access makes sure that only trusted users can access organizational resources on trusted devices using trusted apps.

Microsoft Intune provides many methods to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve compliance issues. In this module, you'll learn about such things as tenant status, health dashboards, troubleshooting portals, reports, and more.

Learn about Microsoft Intune benefits, including how it increases security and productivity, provides flexibility, and maximizes your investment.