Mac OS X Version 10.11 (a.k.a El Capitan). Compatible Macs: iMac (Mid 2007 or newer), MacBook (Late 2008.

Accelerating graphics and much more.

Metal provides near-direct access to the graphics processing unit (GPU), enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps on iOS, macOS, and tvOS. Building on an approachable, low-overhead architecture with precompiled GPU shaders, fine-grained resource control, and multithreading support, Metal further evolves support for GPU-driven command creation, simplifies working with the array of Metal-capable GPUs, and lets you tap into Pro power of Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR.

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What’s New in Metal

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GPU-driven Compute Encoding
Moving beyond just rendering passes, Metal in iOS 13 and tvOS 13 empowers the GPU to construct its own compute commands with Indirect Compute Encoding. Now complete scenes using advanced culling and tessellation techniques can be built and scheduled with little or no CPU interaction.

Improved Raytracing Acceleration
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) speed raytracing operations even more by moving the bounded volume hierarchy construction to the GPU. MPS also provide new, optimized de-noising filters in an essential collection of highly-optimized compute and graphics shaders.

Metal for Pro Apps
Professional content-creation apps can take advantage of outstanding enhancements in Metal on macOS Catalina. Metal Peer Groups make it easy to rapidly share data between multiple GPUs in Mac Pro without transferring through main memory. And enhancements to CAMetalLayer give you access to the High Dynamic Range capabilities of Pro Display XDR.

Simpler GPU Families
Developing with Metal is even easier with the dramatically simplified GPU Families. Three well-considered groupings allow you to easily target functionality that's common across all Metal-enabled GPUs, access unique capabilities of Apple-designed GPUs, and better harness supported third-party GPUs on macOS.

Metal Memory Debugger
The Metal Memory Debugger gives fine-grained insight into how much memory Metal objects and rendering resources consume at runtime. It also analyzes how your resources are configured and suggests improvements, so you can deeply optimize your game or app to take full advantage of Metal.

Metal-enabled iOS Simulator
The Simulator now uses Metal to speed up the development of iOS apps that either use Metal directly or rely on Metal-based system frameworks. This is perfect for smoothly transitioning from OpenGL ES to Metal.

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Note: Using the Microsoft Graph APIs to configure Intune controls and policies still requires that the Intune service is correctly licensed by the customer.

The Microsoft Graph API for Intune enables programmatic access to Intune information for your tenant; the API performs the same Intune operations as those available through the Azure Portal.

For mobile device management (MDM) scenarios, the Microsoft Graph API for Intune supports standalone deployments; Intune hybrid deployments are not supported.

Using the Microsoft Graph API for Intune

Intune provides data into the Microsoft Graph API in the same way as other cloud services do, with rich entity information and relationship navigation. Use the Microsoft Graph API to combine information from other services and Intune to build rich cross-service applications for IT professionals or end users.

The following example shows how you can determine whether an application is installed on a user's device:

  1. Get from Azure Active Directory a list of devices registered to a user:

  2. Then view the list of applications for your tenant:

  3. Take the ID from the application and determine the installation state for the application (and therefore user):

Accessing the Microsoft Graph API for Intune

Intune supports both delegated permissions and application permissions. Delegated and application permissions support both read and write operations. Delegated and application permissions support both single tenant applications, as well as multi-tenant applications. For more information about the permissions available through Microsoft Graph, see Microsoft Graph permissions reference.

Using permissions

Resource

The Microsoft Graph API controls access to resources via permissions. As a developer, you must specify the permissions you need to access Intune resources. Typically, you specify the permissions in the Azure Active Directory portal. For more information, see Microsoft Graph permissions reference.

Next Steps

  • Learn how to use Azure AD to access the Microsoft Graph API for Intune.
  • Explore the PowerShell Intune samples, which show how to use the Microsoft Graph API for Intune in context of working examples.

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