Assignment Failures (preview)

 


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Assignment Failures (preview)


All Intune administrators, we create many of policies as test, production, etc. Or wondered why some apps or policies fail to deploy in Microsoft Intune?

 Many times, we end up with multiple devices conflicting with various policies, and we have to open and check each policy. Run 'View Report' to see which device(s) conflict, then review the settings. Sometimes, Intune tells you which policy the device conflicts with, but it involves many steps.

 

However, the new Assignment Failures (Preview) feature provides admins with deeper visibility into these issues.

 

I totally forgot the old report published by Microsoft around 2021. Haven’t checked it since then, but now it has great features.  

 

Assignment Failures (Preview)

The Assignment Failures report is your helpful guide to understanding errors and conflicts in configuration profiles assigned to devices. It provides a friendly overview by listing configuration profiles for your Intune, along with the number of devices facing issues or conflicts. Security baselines, Endpoint security profiles, and Update profiles are also included to provide a complete picture. Profiles are easily distinguished using the Policy type, source, platform, devices with error, and devices with conflict columns. With this information, you can smoothly dive into a specific profile to see which devices and users are experiencing failures related to it. You can go further by exploring detailed settings that might be causing the issues. Plus, you have the flexibility to filter by type and platform, sort columns, and search by profile name to find exactly what you need with ease.

 

Where to find it

This feature is available on your Intune main page or under Devices > Monitor > Assignment Failures (preview). 



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I was testing this feature after we applied more than 400 compliance policies to the customer and made some test devices conflict due to the customer's previous policies.

 

What is good about this feature is that you can see the number of devices that have the same conflict, it is always the same number of devices.

 

In this demo, you can see in my dev environment that I have limited policies because I always create and delete them.

I have two different policies, both of which have conflicting device (s). One device, as you see in each policy.


If you click on the device name, that will direct you to the settings, and show you all goo and conflicts




This is one of the conflict policies: to verify that, if I compare the settings of both policies below, I will look at ‘Grace period’ and ‘Option to pause Windows updates.’

 

This is really helpful in a large environment; the number of conflicts and errors will assist the admin in fixing them more quickly.




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