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Andrew Taylor is an End-User Compute architect with 20 years IT experience across industries and a particular interest in Microsoft Cloud technologies, PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. Andrew graduated with a degree in Business Studies in 2004 from Lancaster University and since then has obtained numerous Microsoft certifications including Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Cybersecurity Architect Expert amongst others. He currently working as an EUC Architect for an IT Company in the United Kingdom, planning and automating the products across the EUC space. Andrew lives on the coast in the North East of England with his wife and two daughters.
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Monitoring device actions

As an Intune administrator, especially in a larger organization, it is essential to have an audit trail as there are buttons within the console that can have serious effects. Imagine someone accidentally clicks Wipe on the wrong device and you need to find out what happened for an incident report. Fortunately, these are all logged in Device actions, which we will cover now.

Getting ready

To access these logs, click on Devices, then Overview, and finally, click on the Device actions box.

How to do it...

On this screen, you will be presented with a list of all actions taken against all devices (cross-platform), including what was performed, when, and by whom.

There is no search functionality and you cannot sort on the headers (use the automated script to add this functionality), but it does have a powerful filter that includes every possible action across all device types:

Figure 9.8 – Device actions filter

Figure 9.8 – Device actions filter

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Andrew Taylor is an End-User Compute architect with 20 years IT experience across industries and a particular interest in Microsoft Cloud technologies, PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. Andrew graduated with a degree in Business Studies in 2004 from Lancaster University and since then has obtained numerous Microsoft certifications including Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Cybersecurity Architect Expert amongst others. He currently working as an EUC Architect for an IT Company in the United Kingdom, planning and automating the products across the EUC space. Andrew lives on the coast in the North East of England with his wife and two daughters.
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