Microsoft Intune
Device security

Security Settings Management

In brief

The documentation now states that per-setting reporting is unavailable for Firewall Rules and ASR Rules policies managed through MDM; only policy-level status is reported.

What Intune admins need to know

Administrators should use policy-level status when reviewing these MDM-managed policies.

This summary was assembled from the tracked documentation change. Verify important details in the full Microsoft Learn article.

Documentation change

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  • View report - View a list of devices that received the policy. You can select a device to drill in and see its per-setting status. You can then select a setting to view more information about it, including other policies that manage that same setting, which could be a source of conflict.

  • Per setting status - View the settings that are managed by the policy, and a count of success, errors, or conflicts for each setting.

    [!IMPORTANT]

Per-setting reporting is available for most Endpoint Security policies. For Firewall Rules and Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) Rules policies managed through MDM, reporting is limited to policy-level status and doesn't include per-setting reporting statuses. To view per-setting status for Firewall Rules and ASR Rules policies, devices must be enrolled with [Defender for Endpoint security settings management]. (/intune/device-security/microsoft-defender/security-settings-management).

Defender Portal:

You can also monitor the Intune policies that are applied from within the Microsoft Defender portal. Within the portal, go to Endpoints, expand configuration management and select Endpoint security policies. Select a policy to view its status, and then select:

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