Checking Windows updates via reporting

Windows Update reports are likely to be the most useful and most used reports within Intune, as tracking the status of Windows Updates is key to security across the estate. We will start by looking at the built-in reports, and then in the next recipe will take things further and introduce Log Analytics for finer control.

Due to the extra selections required to generate these reports, the inputs do not lend themselves to automation as it would be a similar number of textboxes and clicks to achieve the same result. Therefore, in this recipe, we will not cover automating them. If, however, this is of interest, it uses the same export/import POST requests as with many of the earlier reports here.

Getting ready

Within the Intune portal, click on Reports, then click Windows updates, and finally, click the Reports tab.

How to do it…

There are multiple reports available here, so we will start by looking at how to run them, and then...