Worker Templates
What Is This Page?
The Job Templates page is where reusable packages of worker jobs are created, published, adopted, and applied. A template bundles one or more job definitions — each with a job type, name, schedule, and default configuration — so that the same set of jobs can be deployed consistently across many workers without configuring each one by hand.
There are two distinct roles in the template system:
Platform Admin
Creates and publishes platform templates to the shared MSP Library
MSP Admin
Adopts templates from the library, creates their own, and applies them to workers
If you are a Platform Admin, see the Platform Admin section below. If you are an MSP, see the MSP Admin section.
Platform Admin
What Are Platform Templates?
Platform templates are curated job packages that the Intune Assistant platform team creates and maintains. They represent best-practice configurations for common worker job scenarios.
A platform template:
Is visible to MSPs only after it has been published to the library.
Can contain one or more job definitions (items), each specifying a job type, schedule, and default configuration values.
Acts as a reference point. When an MSP adopts a platform template, they receive an independent copy. Changes you make to the platform template after adoption do not affect MSP copies.
Creating a Platform Template
Adding and Editing Jobs on a Template
All job management happens inside the template's edit panel. Changes are staged locally and only sent to the server when you confirm them.
Add a job
Click Add job in the Jobs section of the panel. An inline form appears directly in the panel.
Job Type
Yes
The type of automated job (e.g., compliance report, device inventory)
Job Name
Yes
A human-readable label for this job slot
Interval
Yes
How often the job runs. Common values: Daily, Weekly, Monthly.
Click Add job to stage the new job. It appears in the list with a green New badge — it has not been saved yet.
Edit or remove existing jobs
Each job row has a pencil icon (edit) and an X icon (remove).
Edit — opens the inline form pre-filled with the job's current values. Changes are highlighted with an amber Modified badge.
Remove — marks the job with a red Removed badge and strikethrough. You can restore it before saving by clicking Restore.
Review and save
When you are done making changes, click Review & Save at the bottom of the panel.
The panel switches to a review screen showing a summary of every change: modified properties, added jobs, removed jobs. Review the list, then click Confirm & Save to commit. Click Back to return to editing without saving.
You can add multiple jobs to a single template. Each job can have a different type and schedule.
If you close the panel with unsaved changes, you will be asked whether to discard them or keep editing.
Publishing a Template
Publishing makes the template visible to MSPs in the template library. A template must be published before any MSP can adopt it.
Publishing is immediate and visible to all MSPs. As soon as you publish, the template appears in every MSP's library tab. If the template is not ready, keep it in draft (unpublished) until it is.
Unpublishing a Template
Unpublishing removes the template from the MSP library. MSPs who have already adopted it are not affected — their copies are independent.
Unpublishing does not delete any MSP copies. It only prevents new MSPs from finding the template in the library going forward.
Editing a Template
To change a template's name, description, active status, or jobs, click the pencil icon on the template card. The edit panel opens on the right.
All changes — including property edits and job add/edit/remove — are staged locally inside the panel. Nothing is saved until you click Review & Save and confirm on the review screen.
Editing a platform template does not change any MSP copies. MSP copies are taken at adoption time and are isolated from future platform changes.
Deleting a Template
Deleting a platform template is permanent. The platform template is removed from the admin view and from the library. However, any MSP copies that were created by adopting this template continue to exist and function normally. MSPs will not be notified that the source template was deleted.
MSP Admin
The Template Library Tab
The Library tab shows all platform templates that:
Have been published by the platform team.
Have not yet been adopted by your organisation.
Once you adopt a template it moves out of the Library tab and appears in your My Templates tab. The Library tab only shows templates that are still available for you to adopt.
Adopting a Template from the Library
Adopting a template creates your own private copy of a platform template. Your copy is completely independent — the platform team cannot modify it after you adopt it.
You can only adopt each platform template once. If the Adopt button is not visible, you have already adopted this template.
After adopting, the template is yours to edit freely. Add jobs, remove jobs, change the name — none of these changes affect the original platform template or any other MSP's copy.
My Templates Tab
The My Templates tab shows all templates owned by your organisation. This includes:
Templates you adopted from the library.
Templates you created from scratch.
Each template card shows the template name, version, jobs, and status badges.
Creating a Template from Scratch
Adding and Editing Jobs on Your Template
Add a job
Click Add job inside the panel. Fill in the inline form:
Job Type
Yes
The type of automated job
Job Name
Yes
A human-readable label for this job slot
Interval
Yes
How often the job runs (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, etc.)
Click Add job in the form to stage it. A green New badge marks it as pending.
Auto-sync on add: When you add a job to a template that is already applied to one or more workers, the new job is automatically pushed to those workers immediately. You do not need to re-apply the template.
Auto-sync on remove: Removing a job from a template automatically disables that job on all workers the template has been applied to. The job history on each worker is preserved — it is disabled, not deleted.
If you close the panel with unsaved changes, you will be asked whether to discard them or keep editing.
Applying a Template to a Worker
Applying a template stamps it onto a specific worker — it creates one job configuration row on the worker for each job in the template.
Select a worker and optional overrides
Select the target worker from the dropdown. The dropdown shows only approved workers belonging to your organisation.
Optionally override the email settings:
Recipient Email Override
If set, all jobs from this template on this worker send reports to this address.
Sender Email Override
If set, this address is used as the sender for all jobs from this template on this worker, overriding the worker's default sender address.
Applying the same template to the same worker twice is blocked. If the template is already applied to a worker (with at least one enabled job), the Apply action will return an error. To change job configurations on an already-applied template, use the edit panel to add or remove jobs — those changes auto-sync.
Template Status Badges
Templates in the My Templates list show status badges:
Adopted
The template was adopted from the platform library
Update available
The platform template has been updated since you adopted it; you can sync the changes
Inactive
The template is disabled; it cannot be applied but existing applied jobs continue to run
Versioning
Frequently Asked Questions
Will platform template updates affect my adopted copy?
No. When you adopt a template, you receive a complete independent copy. Any changes the platform team makes to the original template after your adoption — adding jobs, removing jobs, renaming it — have no effect on your copy.
Can I edit an adopted template?
Yes. After adoption, the template belongs to your organisation. You can rename it, change the description, add new jobs, and remove jobs using the edit panel. There is no link back to the platform original.
What happens to worker jobs if I delete a template?
If you delete a template from My Templates, the template definition is removed. However, the job configuration rows that were already created on workers are not automatically disabled at deletion time. Check your workers' job lists after deleting a template if you need to clean up running jobs manually.
Contrast this with removing an individual job (item) from a template via the edit panel — that action does auto-sync and disables the matching jobs on affected workers.
I added a job to my template but one of my workers did not receive it. Why?
Auto-sync only pushes to workers that had the template applied before you added the job. If a worker was never given this template, it will not receive the new job. Apply the template to that worker separately.
Can I apply a template to more than one worker?
Yes. Apply the template to each worker individually using the Apply action on the template card. Each worker gets its own independent set of job config rows, and each can have different email overrides.
Can I see which workers a template is applied to?
Expand the Workers section at the bottom of a template card to see all workers the template has been applied to, along with their current job status.
What does the Sender Email Override do?
By default, jobs use the sender address configured on the worker control record. The override lets you specify a different address for all jobs from this template on a particular worker without changing the worker's global sender address.
I closed the edit panel and lost my changes. What happened?
When you close the edit panel with unsaved changes, a prompt asks whether to discard or keep editing. If you clicked Discard, the staged changes were cleared. Changes are only persisted when you complete the Review & Save → Confirm & Save flow.
Related Pages
Worker Overview — view and approve registered workers
Worker Licenses — manage worker licenses
Job Templates Architecture — technical reference for developers
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