MacOS — Tutorials & Guides by Jannik Reinhard

MacOS device-management tutorials and guides by Microsoft MVP Jannik Reinhard — enrollment, configuration profiles, FileVault, Apple Business Manager, and macOS shell scripts in Microsoft Intune.

Microsoft Intune Mac Management: A Complete Guide

Microsoft Intune Mac Management: A Complete Guide

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This post is the Complete Guide to Microsoft Intune Mac Management I wish existed when I started managing macOS endpoints in a Microsoft-first environment. From enrollment via Apple Business Manager to compliance, configuration profiles, and security policies — the workflows here are the patterns I deploy in real tenants.

Managing a fleet of devices in today’s workplace isn’t just about Windows management anymore — Mac devices are becoming increasingly common. As more employees choose Macs for their performance, design, and reliability, you also have to deal with the right ways to manage and secure them. With Microsoft Intune, you have a powerful platform to manage macOS devices alongside other platforms. This post shows you how to manage macOS with Microsoft Intune and explains why integrating Macs into your corporate infrastructure is a smart move.

MacBook with Microsoft Intune management dashboard
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Intune Quick Start Guide

Intune Quick Start Guide

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Remote working is the new normal and this is exactly what has contributed to the spread of Intune. Intune gets a large number of new users/devices every day and is also being developed at a rapid pace. Intune is an extremely good platform to manage devices regardless of their location and offers the great advantage that you no longer have to worry about an infrastructure as with Config Manager. However, this growth brings the challenge that administrators have to get used to a new platform.

In my blog you will find many deep dives or useful tools and solutions how to get the full power out of Intune. In this blog post I want to go back to the beginning. I want to give you a general overview of what Intune is and provide you with a free QuickStart guide for the first steps.

Intune Quick Start Guide
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Manage and Enroll macOS Devices with Microsoft Intune

Manage and Enroll macOS Devices with Microsoft Intune

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I have already described in one of my first blogs how you can set up an Intune development environment and enroll Windows devices via Autopilot and manage them. Apart from Windows, you can also manage iOS, Android and MacOS very well with Intune. Apple offers a good interface (MDM Protocol) to manage MacOS devices, unfortunately not all options are supported with Intune. Also in the WWDC22 there was some great new features introduced.

MacOS support was added to Intune back in 2015. At that time, the management of Mac devices was still very limited – something that has changed in the meantime. The number of companies using Mac devices is growing more and more, as is the general market share of macOS compared to Windows. This was around 3% in 2009 and has risen to 15% today (2022). Of course, Windows is still in front, but a trend can be seen.

There are a lot of worthy blogs that deal with the topic MacOS management and Intune:

Just to name a few. Of course there are some great other blogs.

In this blog I want to give you a step by step guide on how to enroll a macOS device in Intune. There will be more blogs in the future with the topic of managing macOS with Intune.

Microsoft Intune macOS device management setup screen
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