Hi Community,
At Ignite, Microsoft anounced an improved device hardware inventory feature for Windows devices in Intune, giving IT teams more detailed and useful information about their devices. This new feature lets organizations gather and analyze a wider variety of hardware details, helping them manage, troubleshoot, and secure devices more effectively.
Where you also waiting to get this feature enabled in your tenant? I was and since it is enabled now i decided to write up a short guide on how to enable and use this in your tenant.
Eager to find out more?
Let’s go!
Features of Enhanced Device Hardware Inventory
The key features of Enhanced Device Hardware Inventory are:
- Hardware inventory per device. E.g. TPM versions, Disks, Battery health, …
- Resource Explorer: you can explore all hardware resources per device from the Intune portal
- Settings Catalog: You can configure Enhanced Device Hardware Inventory with a Configuration policy in Intune
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How to enable Enhanced Device Hardware Inventory
To enable Enhanced Device Hardware Inventory you can follow a few simple steps.
Go to the Intune Portal – Devices – Windows – Configuration – Create – New policy – Platform: Windows 10 and later – Profile type: Properties catalog – create
Name your policy e.g. Enhanced Device Hardware Inventory and give a description if you want.
Click add properties
I will select all possible properties here just for testing puposes, you can obviously choose what properties you want to add. Click select when you are finished, click next
Review your settings and click next
Set Scope tags if you want and click next
Now we need to assign this policy to a group, just for testing purposes i will select All devices here. In -or Exclude a filter here if you want and click next
Review your policy and click Create
Now that your policy is created and assinged we need to wait for some time to see the results, so let’s fast forward in time and let’s get to the results.
Enhanced Device Hardware Inventory, the results
Go to the Intune portal – Devices – Windows. Here pick a device that is included in the group that you have used to assign the Enhanced Device Hardware Inventory policy to. Under monitor you will see a new setting called Resource explorer, click on this setting.
Now click on any property in the column to view the details.
CPU:
Disk Drive:
I think you got the idea by now. As you can see that this feature is a cool addition for IT Admins to perform troubleshooting or just to get more information for a specific device. It is very easy to setup and is definitely a big added value to your existing Intune environment.
You can use Copilot in Intune to create Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries. As inventory data becomes available across platforms, you’ll be able to query multiple devices across different platforms as well. This feature will pull data updated every 24 hours.
This gives IT teams a whole new level of insight and control within the Intune admin center, adding real value for businesses. For example, imagine a telecom vendor presents a 5G service contract to leadership. Before agreeing to the deal, the company needs to know exactly how many devices in their fleet have 5G modems. With this new feature, getting that answer will only take one simple query, instead of a long and complex search. For tasks like incident investigation, the ability to query individual devices across platforms will be available early next year when the expanded inventory features roll out.
And as always if you feel there is something in error or you want to add some stuff from your own experience don’t hesitate to contact me!
I have a few hundred workstations in Intune and after setting this up, they all report Error 2147749902. What are the requirements for this policy to work? I’m curious if some other telemetry or setting we have is conflicting.
Hi, as far as i know there is no official Microsoft documentation on this yet.
Hi thanks for your answer. That would be great. Alle HP devices here.
Thanks for again an interesting article. Do you know if it wTould be possible to get warranty information with this feature? Thank you!
No, only for Microsoft Surface via the Surface Management Portal in intune for now. I’ve heard that Dell or HP are working with MS to provide a similar experience.
Hi thanks for your answer. That would be great. Alle HP devices here. (commented to the wrong reply above, sorry)
Can we enable this in only comanaged environment or in Intune alone environment as well? what is the prerequisite to enable property value.
Hi, your tenant needs to be enabled. If you have the property value your tenant is ok. It works fine with intune stand alone.
Thank you for the updates. I have a question regarding hybrid machines: it appears that the device inventory policy does not affect hybrid machines, whereas it works as expected for AD-registered devices. Could you provide any insights into why this might be happening?
Hi Kofi, thank you. I don’t have a hybrid lab anymore. If i got some time during the holidays i will check it for you.