Policy Overview
What Is This Page?
The Intune Policy Overview page is a complete inventory of every configuration policy in your Intune tenant. It fetches all policy types in a single request — Settings Catalog policies, Device Configuration profiles, Compliance policies, Security Baselines, Administrative Templates, and anything else that lives under configuration in Intune — and presents them in one filterable, searchable, exportable table.
Beyond listing what exists, the page shows you whether each policy is assigned, which groups or built-in targets it is assigned to (including exclusions), how many settings it contains, and when it was last touched. You can select multiple policies and export or permanently delete them in bulk.
Why Would You Use This?
You want a single, complete inventory of every configuration policy in the tenant
You need to identify policies that exist but have no assignment — they apply to nobody and are candidates for cleanup
You are preparing for a policy review, handover, or audit and need a structured export
You want to check when policies were created or last modified to understand whether they are current
You need to delete a batch of old or redundant policies safely, with a confirmation step
You want to see exactly which groups are included in or excluded from a policy's assignment without opening each policy individually in the Intune portal
How to Load the Data
Cancel: A Cancel button appears while loading is in progress. Clicking it stops the request immediately and shows a retry card.
📸 [Screenshot placeholder: Page in initial state showing the welcome card with a large Settings icon, a description, and the Load Policies button]
Understanding the Table
Each row in the table represents one policy. The columns are:
Policy Name
The policy name as it appears in Intune. If a description exists, it is shown in smaller muted text below the name — up to two lines, truncated if long. Click any row to open the full Policy Details dialog
Type
The policy type, shown as an outlined badge — e.g., Settings Catalog, Device Configuration, Compliance Policy, Security Baseline, Administrative Template
Platform
The device platform the policy targets. Colour-coded: blue for Windows (windows10 / windows10andlater), green for Android, grey for iOS, purple for macOS
Assignments
Up to 2 assignment targets shown directly in the cell. Each target is either a built-in label (All Devices, All Users) or a clickable group name. Groups excluded from the assignment are shown with a red ⊖ prefix. If there are more than 2 assignments, a +N more indicator appears. Click any group name to open the Group Details dialog
Settings
The number of individual settings inside the policy, shown as a plain number
Status
Assigned (green badge) if the policy has at least one assignment target, or Not Assigned (grey badge) if it has none
Created
The date the policy was created in Intune
Modified
The date the policy was last modified
Assignment Target Types
Assignments shown in the table and in the Policy Details dialog can be any of the following:
All Devices
The policy applies to every enrolled device in the tenant regardless of group
All Users
The policy applies to every licensed user in the tenant
Group name (blue)
The policy is assigned to a specific Entra ID group — click to see group details
Group name (red)
The group is excluded from the policy — devices and users in this group are skipped
📸 [Screenshot placeholder: Policy table showing several rows — Settings Catalog and Device Configuration types with blue and green platform badges, clickable group names and a red ⊖ excluded group in the Assignments column, green Assigned and grey Not Assigned status badges, and Created / Modified date columns]
Clicking on a Policy Row
Clicking anywhere on a row (except on a group name link) opens the Policy Details dialog. This is a full-screen panel showing all information about the selected policy in one place.
Policy Information
Name
Full policy name
Description
Full description text (untruncated)
Type
Policy type badge
Platform
Platform badge
Settings Count
Total number of settings in the policy
Timestamps
Created
Full date and time the policy was created
Last Modified
Full date and time the policy was last saved
Assignment Status
Assigned or Not Assigned badge
Assignments
All assignment targets for the policy are listed. Each entry shows:
The group name (clickable, opens Group Details) or the built-in label (
All Users,All Devices)A prefix in red for excluded groups
Any assignment filter attached to the assignment — the filter name is shown in purple and is clickable, opening the Filter Details dialog with the filter rule expression, platform, and management type
Settings
The raw settings payload for the policy is displayed as formatted JSON. This is the exact data structure Intune uses to apply the settings to enrolled devices.
📸 [Screenshot placeholder: Policy Details dialog open for a Settings Catalog policy. Left column shows name, type, platform, settings count. Right column shows created/modified timestamps and assignment status. Below: assignments list with two groups and one filter. Below that: JSON settings block in a scrollable code area]
Filters
Four controls are available in the filter panel above the table:
Search
Free-text search across the policy name, policy type, platform value, and description text
Policy Type
Multi-select — show only specific policy types from the values present in your tenant
Status
Multi-select — show only Assigned, only Not Assigned, or both
Platform
Multi-select — show only policies targeting a specific platform
When at least one filter is active, a count is shown: Showing X of Y policies.
Click Clear All to reset all filters at once. Each filter resets the table to page 1 automatically.
📸 [Screenshot placeholder: Filter bar with four controls — a search box containing text, the Policy Type multi-select open showing checkbox options, Status and Platform selectors — and the Clear All button on the right]
Selecting Policies — Bulk Actions
The table has a checkbox column on the left. Selecting one or more rows activates the Bulk Actions bar, which appears as a highlighted blue card above the table.
The bar shows:
How many policies are currently selected (e.g.,
3 policies selected)A Clear Selection link to deselect all
Two action buttons:
Export Selected
Downloads only the selected policies as a report file. You can choose CSV, PDF, or HTML format. The export content is identical to the standard export (see below) but scoped to only the selected rows.
Exporting the Full List
After policies are loaded, an Export button appears in the top-right area. Clicking it opens an export options menu.
Available formats: CSV, PDF, HTML
Filename: configuration-policies (with the appropriate extension)
The export includes one row per policy with these columns:
Policy Name
The policy's display name
Type
Policy type string
Platform
Platform string
Assignment Status
Assigned or Not Assigned
Assignment Count
Number of assignment targets
Settings Count
Number of settings in the policy
Created
Creation date
Last Modified
Last modified date
The export document also includes a stats summary block:
Total Policies — total count in the exported set
Assigned — number of assigned policies
Not Assigned — number of unassigned policies
Common Use Cases
Find all policies that are not assigned to anyone
Set the Status filter to Not Assigned. These policies consume space in your tenant but do nothing. Review them and use Delete Selected to clean them up after confirming they are genuinely unused.
Which policies target Windows devices?
Set Platform to Windows10 (or the Windows value used in your tenant). Combine with Policy Type to further narrow to, for example, only Compliance policies.
When was this policy last changed and by whom? Click the policy row to open Policy Details. The full last-modified timestamp is in the Timestamps section. Note: Intune Assistant shows when the policy was last modified but not who modified it — for that, check the Intune Audit Log.
Clean up old Administrative Templates after migrating to Settings Catalog
Set Policy Type to Administrative Template, review the list, confirm they have been replaced, then select all and use Delete Selected.
Export a policy inventory for an audit Apply any relevant filters (e.g., platform = Windows, type = Compliance Policy), then click Export and choose PDF or HTML for a formatted report with the stats summary included.
Verify a new policy is correctly assigned before rollout Search for the policy name. In the Assignments column you can immediately see which groups are included and whether any are excluded — without opening the Intune portal.
Related Pages
Policy Settings Overview — drill into the individual settings inside each policy
Configuration Overview — how the two configuration pages work together
Group Assignments — see all policies assigned to a specific group
All Assignments — full assignment inventory across all resource types
Filter Assignments — understand the assignment filters used on policies
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