Intune compliance and configuration policies
How Intune tells compliance (evaluating a device) from configuration (setting it), the tenant-wide compliance settings, actions for noncompliance, how conflicts are resolved and how to target policy with groups and assignment filters.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
- Microsoft Intune
Skills you'll practise
- Distinguish compliance policies from configuration policies and choose the right one for a requirement
- Configure the tenant-wide compliance policy settings and actions for noncompliance, including a grace period
- Predict the outcome when compliance and configuration settings conflict, and resolve configuration conflicts
- Target policies with user or device groups and assignment filters, and explain the trade-offs
- Explain what happens on Windows when a profile is removed or unassigned
Course outline
- 1.Compliance versus configurationLesson · 16 min
- 2.Actions for noncompliance and grace periodsLesson · 14 min
- 3.Conflicts, targeting and removalLesson · 20 min
- 4.Intune compliance and configuration policies: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
- 5.Intune compliance and configuration policies: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 6.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Microsoft Learn: Device compliance policies in Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Learn: Configure compliance policies with actions for noncompliance
- Microsoft Learn: Device features and settings in Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Learn: Questions with policies and profiles in Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Learn: Create assignment filters in Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Learn: Microsoft Intune reports
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