Intune Reporting

Introduction to Intune Reporting

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service that helps you manage and secure your devices. Effective reporting is crucial for understanding your device landscape, compliance status, application deployment success, and overall security posture. This article provides an in-depth guide to leveraging Intune's reporting capabilities.

Reporting Overview

Intune offers a comprehensive suite of built-in reports designed to provide insights into various aspects of device and application management. These reports can be accessed directly through the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center. They are categorized to help you quickly find the information you need.

The primary goal of Intune reporting is to:

Monitor device health and compliance.
Track application deployment and usage.
Identify security vulnerabilities and risks.
Ensure adherence to organizational policies.
Support troubleshooting and issue resolution.

Key Intune Reports

Intune provides a variety of pre-defined reports. Here are some of the most frequently used and important ones:

Device Compliance

This section focuses on the compliance status of your managed devices. Understanding device compliance is vital for maintaining a secure environment and enforcing organizational policies.

Device compliance overview: A high-level summary of compliance status across all managed devices.
Device non-compliance: Details on devices that are not meeting compliance policies, including reasons for non-compliance.
Platform compliance: Compliance status broken down by operating system (Windows, iOS, Android).

Device Configuration

These reports help you monitor the successful deployment and status of configuration profiles applied to your devices.

Device configuration overview: A summary of the success, failure, and pending states of configuration profiles.
Device configuration conflicts: Identifies potential conflicts between different configuration settings applied to devices.
Specific profile reports: Detailed reports for individual configuration profiles, showing which devices have succeeded, failed, or are pending the profile.

App Deployment

Track the status of applications deployed to your users and devices. This includes installation success rates, errors, and device assignments.

App installation status: Shows the success or failure of app installations for specific applications across devices and users.
Managed apps overview: A general overview of managed applications within your Intune environment.
App protection policy status: Reports on the effectiveness and application of app protection policies.

User Security

Gain insights into user-related security aspects, including device enrollment and security status.

Enrollment failures: Details on devices that failed to enroll into Intune.
Device security: Information related to device security posture, such as BitLocker status for Windows devices.

Custom Reports

While built-in reports cover many common scenarios, you may need to generate custom reports for specific use cases. Intune integrates with other Microsoft services to enable more advanced reporting:

Azure Log Analytics: Forward Intune diagnostic logs to Azure Log Analytics to create custom queries and visualizations.
Power BI: Connect Power BI to Intune data (often via Log Analytics or Azure Resource Graph) for sophisticated data analysis, dashboard creation, and custom reporting.

Using these tools allows for highly granular and tailored reporting beyond the standard Intune interface.

Exporting Data

Most reports in the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center offer an option to export the data in CSV format. This is useful for:

Offline analysis.
Sharing data with other teams.
Integrating with other reporting tools.

To export, simply look for the "Export" button within the report view.

Best Practices for Intune Reporting

To maximize the value of Intune reporting, consider these best practices:

Regularly review key reports: Make it a habit to check critical reports (e.g., device compliance, app deployment failures) on a daily or weekly basis.
Understand your data: Familiarize yourself with the fields and metrics provided in each report.
Take action on non-compliance: Use compliance reports to identify and remediate non-compliant devices promptly.
Automate where possible: For recurring needs, explore custom reporting solutions with Power BI or Log Analytics.
Segment your data: Use filters and search capabilities within reports to focus on specific device groups, users, or applications.