Drifts
What Is This Page?
Drifts lists every configuration drift IntuneAssistant has detected across all your monitors. A drift is a difference between a monitor's saved baseline and the resource's current, live state in Intune or Entra ID.
How to Use It
Data is not loaded automatically — click Load Drifts to fetch the current list. You can cancel a load in progress, and click Refresh afterward to pull the latest results.
Once loaded, use the filter bar to narrow the list by:
Monitor — show drifts from one monitor only
Status — Active or Fixed
Resource Type — the kind of Intune/Entra resource affected
Click Show Details on any drift card to expand a full before/after comparison of every property that changed.
Accepting a Drift
If a detected change is actually correct — for example, someone intentionally updated a setting and the baseline should now reflect that — click Accept Drift on the drift card. You'll be asked to provide a short justification explaining why the change is being accepted; this is required and is recorded for audit purposes.
Accepting a drift updates the monitor's baseline so the changed properties now match the resource's current live values. The drift is then marked resolved, since there is no longer a difference to detect.
Accepting a drift is different from fixing the underlying resource. It permanently changes what the monitor expects going forward — use it when the current state is the one you want to keep, not as a way to temporarily silence an alert.
What You Will See
A stats row shows Total Drifts, Active Drifts, Fixed Drifts, Total Monitors, and Monitors with Drifts.
Below the filter bar, each drift is shown as a card with:
The affected resource's display name
An Active / Fixed status badge
Which monitor flagged it
The resource type
How many properties changed
When it was first detected
Expanding a card shows every drifted property with its current value and desired value (from the baseline) side by side.
Before you click Load Drifts, the page shows a "Ready to view configuration drifts" prompt rather than an empty list — this is different from loading and finding zero drifts.
Common Questions
What does "Fixed" mean for a drift? The resource's live configuration now matches the baseline again, so the drift is no longer active.
Can I accept a drift as the new expected state instead of reverting it? Yes. Click Accept Drift, provide a justification, and the monitor's baseline is updated to match the current value. Use this when the change was intentional and you want the monitor to stop flagging it.
What's the difference between fixing a drift and accepting it? Fixing a drift means changing the resource in Intune/Entra back to match the baseline — the monitor will then report it as Fixed on its next check. Accepting a drift instead changes the baseline to match the resource, keeping the new configuration going forward.
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