Optimize endpoint operations by using automation, monitoring, and reporting

Your organization wants a business analyst to build custom historical trend reports on Intune device compliance over the past 60 days using Power BI. The analyst needs to connect to a data source that exposes historical Intune data spanning multiple snapshots rather than only current-state values. Which approach should you use to provide this data?

Your organization has enabled Endpoint Analytics for all Intune-managed Windows devices. Leadership asks you to determine whether your fleet's startup performance and app reliability are better or worse than similar organizations, and to track improvement over time against a fixed reference point. Which Endpoint Analytics configuration should you use?

You are the endpoint administrator for Contoso. Leadership asks you to view device startup performance and application reliability scores in Endpoint Analytics for your Intune-managed Windows 11 devices. After enabling Endpoint Analytics, the dashboard shows scores as 'Insufficient data' for most devices even though they have been enrolled and active for several weeks. You confirm the devices are compliant and Intune-managed. What must you configure so that Endpoint Analytics can report scores for these devices?

Users across your organization report that a specific line-of-business application intermittently crashes on many Windows 11 devices. You want to use Endpoint Analytics to identify which application and driver failures are most negatively affecting the fleet, quantify how often devices experience these failures, and prioritize remediation based on impact. Which Endpoint Analytics capability should you use?

You author a proactive remediation script package in Intune to detect and fix a misconfigured registry value. You configure the deployment to run the script in the 64-bit PowerShell host and assign it to a device group. Devices report a status of 'Failed to run detection script' with an execution policy error, even though the detection script runs correctly when tested manually on the same devices. What should you configure to resolve the failures?

Users in the finance department complain that their corporate Windows 11 devices take a long time to become usable after powering on. You want to use Endpoint Analytics to identify which specific factor—such as slow boot processes, group policy processing, or delays before the desktop is responsive—is contributing most to the delay so you can target remediation. Which Endpoint Analytics report should you review?

Your organization wants to understand how well its Windows endpoints are positioned to support remote work. Leadership specifically asks which devices are ready for cloud-based management, whether they meet Windows 11 hardware requirements, and how they score on Microsoft Entra join readiness. In Endpoint Analytics, which report should you review to answer these questions?

You are building an unattended PowerShell script that runs nightly on a server to export all managed device compliance states from Intune via the Microsoft Graph API. The script must run without any interactive sign-in. You register an application in Microsoft Entra ID and need to configure the correct permission type so the script can read device data. Which permission configuration should you use?

Your organization uses Intune Organizational Messages to communicate an upcoming security policy change directly on managed Windows 11 devices. Two days after publishing the message, leadership asks you to confirm how many targeted devices have actually displayed the message to end users. From the Microsoft Intune admin center, where do you find delivery and impression data for the published Organizational Message?

Your organization requires a weekly automated report that lists every managed Windows device currently in a noncompliant state, along with the specific compliance policy settings each device failed. You need to build an unattended script that runs on a schedule and outputs the data to a CSV file. Which approach correctly retrieves the per-setting failure details programmatically?

Your organization requires a nightly, automated export of the full Intune managed device inventory (approximately 40,000 devices) into a data lake for a custom Power BI model. A scheduled service runs unattended using an app registration. The built-in reports in the Intune admin center cannot be scheduled, and manual CSV exports are capped and cannot be automated. Which approach should you implement to retrieve the complete dataset reliably each night?

Your organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage 4,000 Windows devices. Over the past two days, helpdesk has received multiple tickets reporting that new app deployments are stuck in a pending state across many devices. Before investigating individual devices or policies, you want to quickly confirm whether Microsoft is aware of an active issue affecting the Intune service and receive updates as they progress. Where in the Microsoft Intune admin center should you look FIRST?

Your organization wants to build a custom Azure Monitor workbook that visualizes Intune device enrollment failures and operational trends over the past 90 days. The security team requires that the underlying Intune audit and operational log data be queryable with KQL and retained beyond the default reporting period. What must you configure first before the workbook can query this data?

Your organization reports that a critical registry value controlling a legacy line-of-business application keeps getting reset on managed Windows devices, causing intermittent failures. You want Intune to automatically check each device daily and correct the value only when it is wrong, without reimaging or manual helpdesk intervention. Which Endpoint Analytics feature and configuration should you use?

You author a proactive remediation script package in Intune to clear a per-user application cache folder located under each user's %LOCALAPPDATA%. During testing, the detection script reports the folder as missing even though it exists in the signed-in user's profile, and the remediation never runs. The script package is currently configured with the default settings. What should you change so the scripts evaluate the correct user profile?

Your organization has enabled Security Copilot and licensed the Intune add-on. The security operations team wants to reduce the manual effort helpdesk staff spend triaging the daily list of noncompliant and at-risk managed devices. They ask you to configure a capability that will automatically prioritize the flagged devices and produce a plain-language summary with recommended remediation steps that admins can review inside the Intune admin center. Which capability should you use?