Assignments Manager
Assignments Manager
Enterprise Feature — This extension is available exclusively on the Enterprise license. Once activated, it becomes available in your frontend.
Overview
Microsoft Intune assignment management is built for MSP`s and enterprises (single and multi tenant). Assignments Manager standardizes, monitors, and validates policy assignments at scale with bulk-driven automation.
Assignment Manager
Standardize Microsoft Intune assignments across multiple tenants or complex enterprise environments from a single desired state file. Deploy, monitor, and maintain consistent assignments at scale with CSV-driven automation.
Multi-tenant & enterprise scale Deploy consistent assignment patterns across customer tenants (MSPs) or business units (enterprises).
Continuous compliance monitoring Validate assignments against your desired state CSV and catch configuration drift before it impacts users.
Enterprise-grade automation Bulk operations, safety validations, and audit trails designed for production environments.
Perfect for MSPs and Large Enterprises
Keep all your customers (multi tenant) "between the lines" by checking assignments using desired state files.
Primary use cases
Many MSPs use 'shipping ' tools to send policies from a baseline tenant to an edge tenant. See Assignments Manager as an extension at the top of that 'shipping' tool. So there is a baseline tenant that sends default policies to a tenant. Assignments Manager allows you to be very flexible to assign the shipped policies at the customer level at the time you want.
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
Standardize Intune assignments across multiple customer tenants
Monitor assignment drift across your customers' tenants
Automate desired state configuration for new customers
Scale operations without manual work that doesn't scale
What makes this different
Unlike traditional assessment tools that only report what exists, Assignment Manager helps you maintain the desired state:
Deploy standardized assignments from your CSV templates
Monitor assignments compliance against your desired configuration
Correct drift when assignments don't match expectations
Beyond assessment tools
Most tools tell you what's there. This tool ensures that what should be there actually stays there.
Quick start workflow
This workflow is a widely use process
Template-driven consistency
Develop your assignment templates once, then deploy them consistently across your entire infrastructure.
Screenshots
https://docs.intuneassistant.cloud/docs/extensions/assignments-manager/overview/#screenshots
Multi-Admin Approval (MAA)
If your tenant has Multi-Admin Approval enabled for configuration policies, compliance policies, or scripts, the Assignments Manager will show an amber warning banner and all write operations will fail until the IntuneAssistant enterprise app is excluded.
Microsoft Intune's Multi-Admin Approval feature enforces a four-eyes principle for policy changes — including changes made via the Graph API by automation tools. When MAA is active and the IntuneAssistant backend API enterprise app is not excluded, every assignment change attempted through the Assignments Manager is rejected by Microsoft Graph with:
This is not a permissions error — it is MAA blocking the call entirely. The change is not queued for approval; it simply fails.
To fix it: add the IntuneAssistant enterprise app (afe66ddf-67d4-4d61-8a51-beca7b799f52) to the App Exclusions list of each active MAA policy in Tenant administration → Multi Admin Approval.
Next steps
https://docs.intuneassistant.cloud/docs/extensions/assignments-manager/overview/#next-steps
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