The Intune Automation Tasting

Welcome to The Intune Automation Tasting 🍺

Automation doesn’t have to be intimidating. This series is your guide to mastering Microsoft Intune automation step by step — inspired by the art of a proper tasting session. We’ll start light and safe, then gradually build up to full-bodied, powerful automation.

Why Join This Journey?

Managing Intune can feel overwhelming. Common challenges include:

Lack of a complete overview of configurations
Manual changes leading to drift over time
Time-consuming policy comparisons
Reporting and monitoring that doesn’t scale
Barriers to automation like permissions and authentication

This series is designed to solve these pain points with practical, real-world patterns you can apply in your own environment.

Each level represents a step in your automation journey. Start where you’re comfortable and grow at your own pace.

🍺 Session Lager — Foundations

Light, safe, and beginner-friendly.
Focus: Overviews, Identity, permissions, authentication, and read-only patterns.

The Intune Automation Tasting - First Sip

🍺 Pale Ale — Practical Automation

More flavor, still approachable.
Focus: Exporting data, structuring responses, and building useful tools.

🍺 IPA — Insight & Scale

Bolder and more opinionated.
Focus: Reporting, drift detection, comparisons, monitoring, and alerting.

🍺 Double IPA / Stout — Controlled Change Automation

Full-bodied and powerful.
Focus: Write automation, guardrails, approvals, and “desired state” thinking.

What You’ll Need

To follow along, you’ll need:

Basic knowledge of Intune (policies, assignments, device groups)
A willingness to start slow: read-only first, controlled change later

If you’re new to Microsoft Graph, don’t worry — we’ll build that foundation early.

Start Here

Ready to begin? Start with the introduction and Part 1 to set the mindset and avoid common pitfalls:
The Intune Automation Tasting - First Sip

Follow Along

I’ll keep adding new “tasting rounds” as we move from foundations to advanced automation. Have a specific goal in mind? Let me know, and I’ll shape future parts around real-world needs.

You can find the whole series here: