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Publishing Applications With Microsoft Endpoint Manager looks at what's involved when publishing apps to fully managed and BYOD devices. This course examines how to publish and deploy different app types and how to use Microsoft Endpoint manager to implement application configuration and protection. We see what an app needs to support configuration and protection policies, what those policies offer in the way of data protection, and how a policy can configure an app's access to a mobile device's hardware and capabilities. While the course's primary focus is deploying apps to mobile devices through app stores, we also look at using Endpoint manager to publish a custom in-house app to a desktop client.
Learning Objectives
- Overview of app publishing scenarios
- Learn about app protection policies and how to create one
- Learn about app configuration policies and how to create one
- Publish a custom line of business to a Window client
- See how to investigate deployment issues
Intended Audience
- Students working towards the MS-101 Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security exam
- Those wanting to learn how to use Microsoft Endpoint Manager to publish and deploy applications
Prerequisites
- There are no prerequisite courses needed to take this course
If an installation hasn't gone as planned or if a user reports issues with an app installation, you can investigate problems by going into troubleshooting and support from the endpoint manager admin center homepage. First, select the user to troubleshoot. The troubleshooting home page has four statuses displayed. Assignments tell us which apps and policies have been allocated to the user with the drop-down list enabling us to filter by assignment type.
Here we can see two windows applications that have been assigned to the user. There are no compliance policies assigned, but we have one configuration policy in the form of a trusted certificate. Drilling down into an installed application, we can see basic details like the app's version number, its current install status, and the name of the installation package. Under monitor, you can see the app's installation broken down by the user's devices it's installed on, as well as a user view with the install status broken out.
Back on the home page, the devices section lists the user's devices that have been enrolled or have Intune deployed apps installed. Let's drill into the device to investigate the failure. The device's home page displays the device's properties but doesn't highlight the failure. Everything looks to be in order, with Intune saying the device is compliant. At the top of the page, there are functions for retiring, wiping, deleting, restarting, and scanning the device. I'll go through the left-hand menu to find the failure. Ok, here we go. It's a device compliance policy problem.
As we saw earlier, under assignments, there is no compliance policy assigned, but why does the overview page say the device is compliant, and what does this 65001 (not applicable) status mean? If we go into devices, compliance policies, then compliance policy settings, we see an option that marks devices with no compliance policy as compliant. To me, this is a having your cake and eating it situation. If no compliance policy is assigned, you're defaulting devices to be compliant, yet you are also being told that the device isn't compliant because it doesn't have a policy. But the warning is flagged as not applicable because of a setting that says to make devices with no compliance policy compliant.
Hallam is a software architect with over 20 years experience across a wide range of industries. He began his software career as a Delphi/Interbase disciple but changed his allegiance to Microsoft with its deep and broad ecosystem. While Hallam has designed and crafted custom software utilizing web, mobile and desktop technologies, good quality reliable data is the key to a successful solution. The challenge of quickly turning data into useful information for digestion by humans and machines has led Hallam to specialize in database design and process automation. Showing customers how leverage new technology to change and improve their business processes is one of the key drivers keeping Hallam coming back to the keyboard.