Intune finally supports Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Now that Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is a supported version, I want to take the chance to show you how you can install and enroll such a device step by step.

OS Installation

Let’s start with the installation itself, I will use Hyper-V as a basis. Once you booted from the iso image, you will be greeted with the following selection, where we will select the default option to install Ubuntu:

Once it has booted, we can select our display language:

If needed configure Accessibility settings:

Select the keyboard layout:

Connect to the network:

And select, Install Ubuntu:

I will go with the interactive installation for this demo:

And go with the default settings, you can obviously modify it to your needs:

If you want / need, you can install 3rd party components. Since I’m running it inside Hyper-V, I don’t need 3rd party drivers 🙂

Again, since I’m running inside a VM, I can directly go with the erase all option:

If you want, you can directly encrypt the disk from the advanced features option:

If you enable encryption, you will need to set a passphrase that you need to enter to boot the device:

Once done, we can configure the user-, device name and password:

Select the timezone:

And finally review our settings and start the installation:

First boot:

First, we will boot up our device, type in our encryption passphrase to unlock the disk:

Go through the first setup assistant:

Install pre-requisites

Finally, we can go to “aka.ms/enrollmylinux” to get the instructions for the next steps:

Edge

First, we will need to download the edge web browser that is mentioned in the pre-requisites:

We can start the installation, by simply clicking on the downloaded file and clicking on Install:

Intune App

Next, we can open the instructions for the Intune App:

And basically, just copy the settings for 24.04 into the terminal. First the installation of curl:

Then the settings for the Intune app:

And finally, the Intune app itself:

Once the Intune app is installed, we can reboot the device:

Enroll the device

Now that we finally have everything ready, we can start the actual enrollment by opening the Intune app:

And signing in to it:

And start the actual registration:

And the device is finally enrolled:

A few minutes later, we can finally see our device in Intune: