Tenant attach: Device timeline in the admin center

Applies to: Configuration Manager (current branch)

The Microsoft Intune family of products is an integrated solution for managing all of your devices. Microsoft brings together Configuration Manager and Intune into a single console called Microsoft Intune admin center. When Configuration Manager synchronizes a device to Microsoft Intune through tenant attach, you can see a timeline of events. This timeline shows past activity on the device that can help you troubleshoot problems.

Prerequisites

The following items are needed to use the timeline from the admin center:

  • All of the prerequisites for Tenant attach: ConfigMgr client details.
  • Enable Endpoint analytics data collection in Configuration Manager:
    1. In the Configuration Manager console, go to Administration > Client Settings > Default Client Settings.
    2. Right-click and select Properties then select the Computer Agent settings.
    3. Set Enable Endpoint analytics data collection to Yes.
      • Only events collected after the client receives this policy will be visible in the admin center. Events prior to receiving the policy won't be accessible.

Permissions

The user account needs the following permissions:

  • The Read permission for the device's Collection in Configuration Manager.
  • The Read Resource permission under Collection in Configuration Manager.
  • The Notify Resource permission under Collection in Configuration Manager.
  • An Intune role assigned to the user

Generate events

Devices send events once a day to the admin center. Only events collected after the client receives the Enable Endpoint analytics data collection policy are visible in the admin center. Generate test events easily by installing an application or an update from Configuration Manager, or restart the device. Events are kept for 30 days. Use the chart to view events that are collected.

Collected events

Event name Provider name Event ID
Application Error Application Error 1000
Application Hang Application Hang 1002
Kernel Crash Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting 1001
Application Crash Windows Error Reporting 1001
Windows Update Agent – Update Installation Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient 19
Unknown Shutdown Boot 0
Initiated Shutdown Boot 1074
Abnormal Shutdown Boot 41
Boundary Group Change Microsoft-ConfigMgr 20000
Application Deployment Microsoft-ConfigMgr 20001
Configuration Manager – Update Installation Microsoft-ConfigMgr 20002
Firmware version change Microsoft-ConfigMgr 20003
Configuration Manager Reboot request Microsoft-ConfigMgr 20005
Client repair Microsoft-ConfigMgr 20006
State resync Microsoft-ConfigMgr 20007
Inventory resync Microsoft-ConfigMgr 20008

View the timeline

  1. In a browser, go to the Microsoft Intune admin center.

  2. Select Devices then All Devices.

  3. Select a device that is synced from Configuration Manager via tenant attach.

  4. Select Timeline. By default, you're shown events from the last 24 hours.

    • Use the Filter button to change the Time range, Event levels, and Provider name.
    • If you select on an event, you'll see the detailed message for it.
    • Select Sync to fetch the recent data generated on client. The device sends events once a day to the admin center by default.
    • Select Refresh to reload the page and to see newly collected events.

    Timeline of events for a device

Known issues

You will receive a time out error if the following condition applies:

  • You're opening Timeline for the very first time after restarting SMSExecutive on the service connection point's on-premises server.

To work around the issue, reload the Timeline page.

Next steps

Troubleshoot the device timeline