Introduction
Standard Microsoft Intune reports tell you whether a device is enrolled, compliant, and patched - but they don't tell you whether your users are having a good experience or whether an emerging hardware fault is about to flood your helpdesk with tickets. As organizations adopt Zero Trust and risk-based access, IT teams need richer signals: real-time device health, anomaly detection, and security telemetry that flows across Intune and Microsoft Defender.
Microsoft Intune Suite Advanced Analytics, combined with integration with Microsoft Defender, turns Intune from a configuration-enforcement tool into a proactive insights platform. You can spot anomalies before they cascade, correlate posture with active threat signals, and feed that intelligence back into adaptive compliance and Conditional Access policy.
Example scenario
Imagine you're an endpoint administrator at Contoso Healthcare. Frontline clinicians depend on hospital-issued Windows devices throughout their shifts, and any device slowdown directly affects patient care. Standard Intune reports show every device as "compliant," yet helpdesk tickets about poor application performance have spiked, and your security team flagged several devices with unusual sign-in patterns. You need to:
- See which devices are degrading users' experience, before users complain
- Detect anomalies that indicate emerging hardware or software issues
- Correlate Intune compliance state with Defender risk signals
- Drive Conditional Access decisions based on dynamic risk - not just static compliance
By the end of this module, you'll know how to use Microsoft Intune Suite Advanced Analytics and its integrations to surface these signals and act on them.
What you'll learn
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Explore advanced reporting with Microsoft Intune Suite Advanced Analytics
- Identify and respond to anomaly detection insights
- Integrate Intune data with Microsoft Defender for proactive threat signals
- Use advanced insights to support risk-based policy decisions
What's the main goal?
Move beyond static compliance reporting to a proactive, risk-aware view of your fleet - using Microsoft Intune Suite analytics and its integration with Microsoft Defender.