Advanced Analytics

Understanding Device query for multiple devices

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This week is all about Device query for multiple devices. A long awaited feature. With that, this will also be a follow up on this post about getting started with Device query and this post adding additional hardware properties to the device inventory. Especially the latter might be a little bit surprising, but will be explained throughout this post. Device query for multiple devices provides IT administrators with the ability to easily query for devices with specific properties and values (e.g. all Windows devices with specific application crash events) and the ability to easily summarize data about devices (e.g. count all devices with a specific CPU). Those queries, however, are not performed in real-time on the Windows devices within the environment, but are relying on …

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Looking closer at enabling Endpoint analytics

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This week is all about Endpoint analytics and indirectly Advanced Analytics. More specifically, about enabling Endpoint Analytics and what happens after enabling Endpoint analytics. The process of enabling Endpoint analytics is not that special and can only be performed once per tenant. It is, however, good to be familiar with what happens after enabling Endpoint analytics. To understand the settings that become available and the impact of adjusting those settings. Especially the impact for the Windows devices within the environment. Besides that, it’s also important to be familiar with configurations that are not directly part of Endpoint analytics, but that do influence the results provided by Endpoint analytics. This post will focus on exactly those subjects! This post will provide an overview of what enabling …

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Getting started with Device query

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This week is basically a follow-up on an earlier post about Advanced Analytics. At that time, it was all still in preview and still listening to the name of Advanced Endpoint Analytics. Advanced Analytics is also one of the latest additions to the Microsoft Intune Suite and it builds on top of those earlier previewed functionalities. On top of those features from the preview, Microsoft now also added Battery Health and Device query to the mix of features of Advanced Analytics. Even more insights and more options to actual query devices for information. Battery Health is a report that provides insights into the health of the batteries of the devices within the environment and how it influences the user experience. An interesting report, for even …

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