Step 11 - Create an email device profile for iOS/iPadOS in Microsoft Intune

In this article, you create an email profile for iOS/iPadOS devices. Email device profiles help standardize settings across your devices. By using these profiles, end users can access organization email on their personal devices without any confusing setup.

This article is part of an Evaluate and Try series that helps you evaluate Microsoft Intune's capabilities.

To help safeguard your email, you can create a compliance policy that sets rules on devices that connect to email. Then, set up Conditional Access to allow only compliant devices access to your email profiles. To learn more about email profiles, see configure email settings in Microsoft Intune.

Prerequisites

Create an iOS/iPadOS email profile

The profile includes the required settings that allow a device to connect to your organization's email.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center.

2. Go to Devices > Manage devices > Configuration > Create > New policy:

   

3. Enter the following properties:

   • Platform: Select iOS/iPadOS.
   • Profile type: Select Templates > Email.

4. Select Create.

5. In Basics, enter the following properties:

   • Name: Enter a descriptive name for the new profile. For this example, enter iOS require work email.
   • Description: Enter Require iOS/iPadOS devices to use work email.

   

6. Select Next.

7. In Configuration settings, enter the following settings. For the other settings, use the default values.

   • Email server: For this evaluation step, enter outlook.office365.com. This setting specifies the Exchange location (URL) of the email server that the iOS/iPadOS mail app uses to connect to email.
   • Account name: Enter Company Email.
   • Username attribute from Microsoft Entra ID: This name is the attribute Intune gets from Microsoft Entra ID. Intune dynamically generates the username for this profile using this name. For this evaluation step, use the User Principal Name as the username for the profile, like user1@contoso.com.
   • Email address attribute from Microsoft Entra ID: This setting is the email address from Microsoft Entra ID that signs in to Exchange. For this evaluation step, select User Principal Name.
   • Authentication method: For this evaluation step, select Username and password. If you set up authentication certificates in Intune, then you can choose Certificate.

8. Select Next.

9. In Scope tags (optional), select Next. In this example, don't use scope tags.

10. In Assignments, use the drop-down for Assign to and select All users and all devices. Then, select Next.

11. In Review + create, review your settings. When you select Create, your changes are saved, and the profile is assigned.

Clean up resources

If you don't use this profile for other tutorials or testing, delete it:

1. In the Microsoft Intune admin center, select Devices > Manage devices > Configuration.
2. Select the iOS/iPadOS require work email profile you created, and then select Delete.

Next steps

In this article, you created an email profile for iOS/iPadOS devices. To learn more about all the profiles you can create in Intune, see Create device profiles in Microsoft Intune.

This article is the last step in the evaluation guide. You set up a test environment and stepped through common tasks that help you better understand and use Intune.

When you're ready to deploy Intune in your organization, the following resources can help.