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Do you use #macOS devices in your company? And how do you manage them? One of the most widely used macOS management tools is probably #Jamf. But did you know you can also manage macOS with #Intune?

The best support in Intune is, of course, #Windows. And it's true that Intune's MacOS support is not as good as, for example, Jamf. But you need to consider whether the added functionality in Jamf is even needed and if so, whether it's really worth the investment of buying another #MDM solution that also won't integrate with other Microsoft 365 products.

If you choose to manage macOS devices from Intune, there are three options for applying policies to the device.

Native configuration profiles. At a minimum, you can make basic settings using configuration profiles that you simply create directly from within Intune, similar to Windows configuration profiles. There are already a large number of natively supported configurations that you simply create directly from the portal. And more will be added as time goes on.

Mobileconfigs are XML configuration files. If you want to configure something that is not directly available from the configuration profiles, you can use mobileconfig. However, because these are XML files, it can be quite a chore to create such XML manually. However, there are tools that will generate the configuration XML for you, such as iMazing.

Shell scripts are the final third option, which is the equivalent of #PowerShell on Windows. Shell scripts allow you to create configurations using shell commands. #devicemanagement #tips #macos #intune #mobileconfig #shellscripts #cybersecurity