Assignments
View all resources and their assignments in one overview
Overview
The Assignments section of Intune Assistant gives you a powerful, unified workspace to understand, explore, and audit how Intune policies, configurations, and applications are distributed across your organization. Whether you are managing a small fleet or thousands of devices across multiple countries, assignments are at the heart of every deployment decision — and keeping them under control is critical.
Microsoft Intune natively scatters assignment information across many different blades and resource types. Intune Assistant brings it all together in one place, with smart filtering, group-aware lookups, and user-centric views that are simply not available out of the box.
Why Assignments Matter
Every Intune object — a compliance policy, a configuration profile, an application, a script — only has effect when it is assigned to a target. Targets can be:
Entra ID groups (included or excluded)
All Users (every licensed user in the tenant)
All Devices (every enrolled device in the tenant)
Without proper visibility, administrators face common challenges such as:
Not knowing which policies apply to a specific user or device
Accidentally overlapping or conflicting assignments
Applications targeted at the wrong group
No easy way to audit who has access to what
Intune Assistant solves these challenges by providing dedicated, purpose-built views for each assignment scenario.
Available Assignment Views
The Assignments section is divided into the following pages, each focused on a specific perspective:
A comprehensive overview of every resource and assignment in your tenant across applications, compliance policies, configuration profiles, and more. Use this view to get the full picture at a glance, apply cross-type filters, and export reports. It also shows the non-assigned resources.
Best for: Tenant-wide audits, compliance reporting, and general inventory checks.
A dedicated view focused entirely on application deployments. Track which apps are assigned where, filter by install type (Required, Available, Uninstall), and understand how apps flow across your organization.
Best for: Application lifecycle management, deployment tracking, and license/install audits.
Select any Entra ID group and instantly see all Intune objects (policies, configurations, apps) assigned to that group. Includes group membership insights and highlights both included and excluded assignments.
Best for: Group-level audits, change management validation, and troubleshooting over-assignment or under-assignment for a specific group.
Explore how assignment filters are used across your tenant. Assignment filters in Intune allow you to refine which devices within a group a policy applies to. This view shows which filters exist, how they are configured, and where they are applied.
Best for: Filter governance, ensuring filters are correctly scoped, and auditing filter usage.
User Assignments
Search for a specific user and see all Intune assignments (configuration profiles, compliance policies, and more) that apply to them — both through (nested) group memberships. This view resolves group nesting and includes "All Users" targeting.
Best for: End-user troubleshooting, helpdesk investigations, and proving policy application per user.
A focused sub-view of user assignments dedicated to applications. Enter a username and immediately see all apps assigned to that user via any targeting method (group membership, All Users).
Best for: App entitlement verification, access reviews, and user-specific app troubleshooting.
A focused sub-view of user assignments dedicated to configuration profiles. Enter a username and immediately see all policies assigned to that user via any targeting method (group membership, All Users).
Best for: Policy verification, access reviews, and user-specific app troubleshooting.
Common Features Across All Assignment Views
All assignment pages in Intune Assistant share a consistent set of capabilities:
Live data
Data is fetched in real time from your Intune tenant via Microsoft Graph
Column filtering
Filter results by any displayed column directly in the table
Global search
Full-text search across all visible rows
Export
Export any table to CSV for offline analysis or reporting
Pagination
Handle large datasets without performance degradation
Dark / Light mode
Consistent UI theme inherited from global settings
Tenant-aware
All views automatically scope to your currently selected tenant
Getting Started
Navigate to Assistant → Assignments from the sidebar.
Choose the view that matches your current task (overview, app, group, user, etc.).
Use the search or filter controls to narrow down results.
Export the data if you need to share findings or create a report.
Tip: If you are troubleshooting why a user is or is not receiving a policy, start with the User Assignments view and search for the user directly.
Tip: For a broad tenant-wide audit, start with All Assignments and use the export function to get a full snapshot.
Related Sections
Conditional Access
Configuration Policies
Devices Overview
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