Understand built-in reporting options in Microsoft Intune

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When your organization manages hundreds or thousands of devices, Microsoft Intune produces a lot of data. This data covers policy results, security health, and hardware inventory. Intune provides built-in reports so you can review this data without writing custom queries.

To use these reports well, you need to know the report categories and what each category covers. The right report helps you monitor your environment, prove compliance during audits, and troubleshoot issues.

Categories of Intune reports

Intune groups reports by who uses them and how current the data is. Pick the right category first to avoid searching in the wrong workload.

  • Organizational reports. These broad, tenant-wide summaries refresh on a schedule rather than in real time. IT directors and security officers use them to check overall health and compliance posture.

  • Operational reports. These narrow, real-time views appear inside specific workloads. For example, the install status of a single app. Helpdesk staff and IT admins use them to troubleshoot a user or device.

  • Historical and trend reports. These time-series views show patterns over weeks or months. Use them to see whether compliance is improving or getting worse.

  • Specialist reports. Use this category when the pre-built reports don't go deep enough. Admins pull raw data through the Intune Data Warehouse OData feed. Admins can also connect Azure Monitor workbooks to Log Analytics to build custom views. This category supports the workbook and export techniques covered later in this module.

Core built-in reports

The following reports are the most useful built-in options. Each section describes the report's scope, what it tells you, and when to use it.

Device compliance report

This report shows a high-level view of compliance status across your managed fleet.

  • Scope: All devices that Intune compliance policies target.
  • What it tells you: It sorts devices into compliant, noncompliant, in-grace period, or not evaluated.
  • When to use: Use this report to answer the question, "How many devices currently meet our security baseline?" It helps you find devices that no longer comply, such as devices with disabled firewalls or outdated operating systems. Conditional Access blocks these devices from corporate data, so spot them early.

Device configuration report

This report tracks the success, failure, or conflict status of the configuration profiles that you deploy.

  • Scope: Devices that configuration profiles target. Profiles include settings such as Wi-Fi, VPN, or device restrictions.
  • What it tells you: It shows the deployment status of every policy. It also highlights which settings cause errors.
  • When to use: Use this report right after you deploy a new configuration. For example, if you deploy a custom restriction and 15% of devices report an error, the report shows which setting fails and on which hardware models.

Windows updates report

This report focuses on your Windows update rings. It covers feature updates and expedited quality updates.

  • Scope: Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices that Intune update policies manage.
  • What it tells you: It tracks the exact update version on each device. It also highlights devices that fail to update or that stall pending a reboot.
  • When to use: Use this report on Patch Tuesday or when you respond to a zero-day vulnerability. It proves to security teams that critical patches reached your Windows fleet.

Microsoft Defender Antivirus report

This report shows threat and protection data from the local Defender agents on your endpoints.

  • Scope: Windows devices that run Microsoft Defender Antivirus.
  • What it tells you: It shows the state of the antivirus engine. State includes the signature version and real-time protection status. It also lists devices with active malware detections.
  • When to use: Use this report to confirm that your endpoint protection is active and healthy. It helps you spot devices where a user or malicious software disabled the antivirus service.

Endpoint analytics

Endpoint analytics focuses on the actual end-user experience. Traditional MDM reports focus on policy enforcement instead.

  • Scope: Intune-managed, co-managed, and Microsoft Configuration Manager tenant-attached Windows devices.
  • What it tells you: It gathers telemetry on hardware performance and overall usability. The data covers startup performance, application reliability, and work-from-anywhere readiness.
  • When to use: Use this report to move from reactive IT to proactive IT. Instead of waiting for a slow-computer ticket, you can identify and replace failing hardware or problematic drivers before the user complains.
  • Note: Advanced Analytics is part of the Microsoft Intune Suite add-on. It provides deeper insights, including device query and resource performance. It requires another license.