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Grouping, targeting, and filters: recommendations in Microsoft Intune

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Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022, 07:30 AM PDT
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This session talks about the grouping, targeting, and filters to introduce the concepts and show the common customer scenarios. The focus is to provide solid recommendations and best practices so that customers have a smooth and performant experience while managing large scale Intune deployments.

This session is part of the Microsoft Technical Takeoff: Windows + Intune. Add it to your calendar, RSVP for event reminders, and post your questions and comments below! This session will also be recorded and available on demand shortly after conclusion of the live event.

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Updated Dec 27, 2024

43 Comments

  • Are there other built-in groups like All Users and All Devices perhaps like some of the others from old on-prem AD?
    • Scott Duffey's avatar
      Scott Duffey
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      We just have the two "virtual groups" today in Intune but please let us know what others would be helpful for you in the future.
  • Is there a good way to pull all device information that Intune can see to create a custom filter?
    • Scott Duffey's avatar
      Scott Duffey
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      Yes! Here's a tip on how to do that. Create a new filter object with a rule something like this: (Device.name -ne "foo") In the device preview you'll end up with a list of all devices that are not named foo along with all the properties that can be used to create a filter.
      • Marc_Laf's avatar
        Marc_Laf
        Iron Contributor
        Thanks for this tip Scott although it does seem like a workaround that shouldn't be required. Hopefully this process improves in the future.
  • Marwan Taha's avatar
    Marwan Taha
    Copper Contributor
    Any plans enabling filters for security baseline groups in the MEM console under Endpoint Security?
    • Scott Duffey's avatar
      Scott Duffey
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      Yes! Baselines are on our backlog. No dates to share on that right now though. Thanks for the feedback.
  • JoeLoveless's avatar
    JoeLoveless
    Copper Contributor
    When we did device assignments, we saw all sorts of issues with AutoPilot restarting or errors. Switching to user group/filtering worked better. What is the preferred method of how to deploy profiles in Intune for Windows devices?
  • TimDK's avatar
    TimDK
    Brass Contributor
    Are there any plans to remove / increase the limit of 200 filters per tenant?
  • Marc_Laf's avatar
    Marc_Laf
    Iron Contributor
    Creating filters requires knowing exactly what the value is called that you're looking for. If you incorrectly type a value and try to evaluate it against a device, it will fail but in failing will tell you what value that particular device had. It would be much quicker if we could pick a device first and then derive a filter from values found on that device where all values available for matching were presented.
    • Scott Duffey's avatar
      Scott Duffey
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      Thanks for the feedback Marc. My best suggestion to make this quicker for you is to use the "Device preview" feature while creating a filter as this will show you all the values for devices that could be used along with the resulting devices.
      • Marc_Laf's avatar
        Marc_Laf
        Iron Contributor
        Yeah it's just that sometimes we have an idea of what we want to accomplish but don't know the parts available to us.
  • Rob de Roos's avatar
    Rob de Roos
    Iron Contributor
    Filters are not always applicable. Will they be available on all possible locations within Intune in the near future?
  • Welcome to Grouping, targeting, and filters: recommendations in Microsoft Intune at the Microsoft Technical Takeoff. Let's get started! Have a question? Post it here in the Comments. Subject matter experts will be answering during the session and throughout the week. We're looking forward to the conversation.

  • HeyHey16K's avatar
    HeyHey16K
    Iron Contributor
    Filters have been particularly useful for us, especially for the update rings and app deployments. Would it be possible to add more properties to filter on please?
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Oct 26, 20227:30 AM - 8:00 AM PDT