NinjaOne in depth: organizations, policies, conditions and automation
How NinjaOne places devices (organization, location, device role), how policy assignment and parent-policy inheritance work, how conditions raise alerts and tickets, how OS patching approvals are set, and how scripts, NinjaOne Remote, roles, MFA, the activity feed and device deletion behave. Builds on the everyday NinjaOne course.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
- NinjaOne
Skills you'll practise
- Generate an installer that places a device in the right organization, location and device role
- Predict which policy a device gets from organization, location and device-level assignments
- Use a parent policy and explain what 'Overridden' and 'Revert' mean on an inherited setting
- Configure a condition's severity, priority, auto-reset and ticket creation sensibly
- Set OS patch approval per category (Approve, Manual, Reject) with scan and update schedules
- Explain how deleting a device affects its agent, and where to find the audit trail
Course outline
- 1.Placement: organizations, locations and device rolesLesson · 15 min
- 2.Policy inheritance, conditions and alertsLesson · 17 min
- 3.Patching, scripts, remote access and accountabilityLesson · 18 min
- 4.NinjaOne in depth: organizations, policies, conditions and automation: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
- 5.Final exam11 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.
- NinjaOne documentation: Managing organizations and locations
- NinjaOne documentation: Add a Windows device (agent installation)
- NinjaOne documentation: Device role selection for endpoints
- NinjaOne documentation: NinjaOne policies
- NinjaOne documentation: Assign a policy by location
- NinjaOne documentation: Create and manage policies
- NinjaOne documentation: Policy condition configuration
- NinjaOne documentation: NinjaOne Ticketing automation
- NinjaOne documentation: OS patch management guide
- NinjaOne documentation: Getting started with automation and scripting
- NinjaOne documentation: Moving from TeamViewer to NinjaOne Remote
- NinjaOne documentation: Multi-factor (2-factor) authentication
- NinjaOne documentation: User roles and permission management guide
- NinjaOne documentation: Device and system activity feed
- NinjaOne documentation: Delete or remove a device
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