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GeneralCreate and assign device categories in Microsoft Intune - Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn
In brief
The article now defines device categories as labels, explains their relationship to dynamic Microsoft Entra security groups, and covers creating categories, building groups, and assigning categories to devices.
What Intune admins need to know
Administrators can use the revised guidance to organize devices and configure category-based dynamic groups.
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Categorize devices into groupsCreate and assign device categories in Microsoft Intune - Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn
Device categories allowA device category is a label you assign to easily manage and group devices in Microsoft Intune. Create a category, device—such as sales or accounting, and—to help organize the devices you manage. Device categories are separate from Microsoft Entra security groups, but you can use them together: when you create a dynamic security group based on a category, Intune will automatically add all devices that fall withinadds any device assigned that category to the correspondinggroup.
This article explains how to create device group in Intune. To enable categories in your tenant, you must create a category in the Microsoft Intune admin center and set upcategories, build dynamic Microsoft Entra security groups.
This article describes howgroups from them, and assign a category to configure and edit device categories.a device.
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+A **device category** is a label you assign to a device—such as *sales* or *accounting*—to help organize the devices you manage. Device categories are separate from Microsoft Entra security groups, but you can use them together: when you create a dynamic security group based on a category, Intune automatically adds any device assigned that category to the group.
-This article describes how to configure and edit device categories.
+This article explains how to create device categories, build dynamic Microsoft Entra security groups from them, and assign a category to a device.
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