Policy Settings Overview
What Is This Page?
The Policy Settings Overview page unpacks every configuration policy in your Intune tenant into its individual settings and shows them all in a single flat table. Where the Policy Overview answers "which policies exist?", this page answers "what is each policy actually doing?" — right down to the setting name, the configured value, the source policy, the platform, and whether the policy is currently assigned.
The page also does something the Intune portal cannot do on its own: it automatically cross-references all settings across all policies and flags duplicate settings (the same setting configured to the same value in multiple policies targeting the same groups) and conflicting settings (the same setting configured to different values in policies that overlap in their assignment targets). This makes it the primary tool for configuration hygiene and security auditing.
Why Would You Use This?
You want to understand your device configuration at the individual setting level, not just the policy level
You need to find settings that are configured in more than one place — common after tenant growth, migrations, or team changes over time
You need to detect and resolve conflicting settings before they cause unpredictable device behaviour
You are migrating from legacy Device Configuration profiles or ADMX Group Policy to the modern Settings Catalog and need to see exactly which settings are already covered
You need to audit the complete configuration state of a tenant for a security review, ISO 27001 assessment, or compliance framework
You want a structured export of all settings including values, sources, platforms, and conflict status
How Data Is Loaded
This page does not load everything in a single request. Settings are fetched from three separate Intune sources in sequence. A progress bar with a step indicator is shown while loading:
1 of 3
Settings Catalog
All settings inside Settings Catalog policies
2 of 3
Device Configuration
All settings inside Device Configuration profiles, including OMA-URI custom settings
3 of 3
Group Policy
All settings from Administrative Templates and Group Policy Analytics ingested into Intune
The progress bar shows the current status of each step:
✓— completed⟳— in progress (currently fetching)○— waiting
A step counter shows 1/3, 2/3, 3/3 as each source completes.
Once all three steps finish, duplicate and conflict detection runs automatically across the full merged dataset before the table is rendered.
Cancel: A Cancel button appears during loading. Clicking it stops all pending requests and shows a retry card. Any steps that had already completed are discarded — clicking Retry starts all three steps fresh.
Understanding the Table
Each row in the table is a single setting from a single policy. The columns are:
Policy Name
The name of the policy this setting belongs to. Below the policy name, a coloured source badge shows the origin (see Source Badges below). If the setting has been flagged as a duplicate or conflict, an additional clickable badge appears here
Setting Name
The display name of the setting. For Device Configuration OMA-URI custom settings, the OMA-URI path is shown in smaller muted text below the setting name. If the setting ID was used as the name (no display name resolved), the ID is shown
Setting Value
The configured value for this setting. Values longer than 50 characters are truncated — hover to read the full value. For settings flagged as Conflict, the value is highlighted in red to draw attention
Platform
The platform string of the parent policy (e.g., windows10, iOS, Android)
Assigned
Whether the parent policy has at least one assignment. Shows a clickable green Assigned badge (opens the Assignments dialog) or a grey Not Assigned badge
Child Settings
For Settings Catalog settings that have sub-options, shows a N child settings expandable link. Click to expand the sub-settings inline. Automatically expands and highlights matching children in amber when a search term matches
Source Badges
Every row has a source badge in the Policy Name cell indicating which Intune engine the setting came from:
Blue
Settings Catalog
Modern policy settings — the recommended approach for new configurations
Purple
Device Config
Legacy Device Configuration profiles — older approach, still widely used
Green
Group Policy
ADMX-based Administrative Templates or Group Policy Analytics ingested into Intune
Duplicate and Conflict Detection
After all three sources are loaded, the page runs an automatic analysis across the full dataset. Every setting is checked against every other setting of the same name, looking for cases where:
The same setting appears in multiple policies
Those policies have overlapping assignment targets — meaning at least one group (or built-in target) is shared between them
Only settings in policies that actually target the same devices or users are compared. A setting that appears in two policies assigned to completely different groups is not flagged.
Duplicate (yellow badge)
A Duplicate means the same setting is configured to the same value in two or more policies that overlap in their assignments.
This is not necessarily causing harm, but it is unnecessary and can create confusion
It commonly appears during migrations when a new Settings Catalog policy is created to replace an old Device Configuration profile but the old profile has not yet been removed
Click the yellow Duplicate badge to open the Duplicate Details dialog
Conflict (red badge)
A Conflict means the same setting is configured to different values in two or more policies that overlap in their assignments.
This means Intune is sending contradictory instructions to the same device
The device will apply one value or the other depending on policy conflict resolution precedence — which may not be the intended outcome
Conflicts should be investigated and resolved: either consolidate into one policy or ensure the conflicting policies target different groups
Click the red Conflict badge to open the Conflict Details dialog
⚠️ Conflicts represent a real configuration risk. A device receiving conflicting settings may end up in an indeterminate state that does not match either policy's intent. Treat conflict badges as action items.
The Duplicate / Conflict Details Dialog
Clicking a Duplicate or Conflict badge opens a detail dialog. The dialog is structured into two sections:
This Policy
Shows a highlighted card for the current row's policy with:
Policy name
Configured setting value
The card is highlighted in yellow for duplicates and red for conflicts.
Conflicting / Duplicate in N Other Policies
Lists every other policy that has the same setting with overlapping assignments. Each entry shows:
Policy name
Source badge (Settings Catalog / Device Config / Group Policy)
The setting value configured in that policy
A red triangle icon if the value differs from the current row's value
This gives you exactly what you need to decide which policy to keep and which to clean up or merge.
The Assignments Dialog
When a row shows a green Assigned badge in the Assigned column, clicking it opens the Assignments dialog for that policy.
The dialog shows:
A section for Group Assignments — each assigned group is shown with its display name (fetched live), the GUID below it in small monospace text, and a View Group button
A section for Other Assignments — built-in targets (All Users, All Devices) shown as their raw odata type string
The total assignment count in the dialog header
The display names of groups are loaded asynchronously while the dialog is open — a shimmer placeholder appears until the name resolves. Clicking View Group on any entry closes the Assignments dialog and opens the Group Details dialog for that group.
Filters Panel
The Filters header is a clickable toggle. Click it to expand or collapse the filter controls.
When collapsed, any active filters are shown as chips in a summary row beneath the header — so you always know what is filtering the table even with the panel closed. The header also shows a badge like 2 active when filters are set.
Source
Settings Catalog, Device Config, Group Policy
Show settings from one or more specific policy engines
Platform
Values from your tenant
Limit to a specific device platform
Status
OK, Duplicate, Conflict
Show only clean settings, only duplicates, only conflicts, or any combination
Assignment
Assigned, Not Assigned
Show only settings from assigned policies, or only from unassigned ones
When filters are active, a count shows: Showing X of Y settings.
Click Clear All to reset everything at once.
Clickable Stats Bar
Below the filters panel, a row of clickable stat badges is shown. Each badge both displays a count and acts as a shortcut to toggle a filter:
N total settings
Clears all filters — shows the complete unfiltered dataset
N Settings Catalog
Toggles the Settings Catalog source filter on/off
N Device Config
Toggles the Device Config source filter on/off
N Group Policy
Toggles the Group Policy source filter on/off
N duplicates
Toggles the Duplicate status filter on/off
N conflicts
Toggles the Conflict status filter on/off
An active filter badge shows a coloured ring around it. Clicking again removes the filter. If both duplicates and conflicts are zero, those badges are not shown.
When any filter is active, a text suffix shows: — showing X of Y.
📸 [Screenshot placeholder: Stats bar showing six badges in a row: a dark total badge, blue Settings Catalog, purple Device Config, green Group Policy, yellow duplicates, and a red conflicts badge with a ring indicating it is currently active]
Search
A search box is available at the top of the table. It searches simultaneously across:
Setting name
Policy name
Setting value
Results update live as you type.
Child settings aware: When a search term matches a child sub-setting (not the parent setting name), the parent row automatically expands its child settings panel and highlights the matching children in amber. The match count is shown next to the expand link: 3 child settings (1 match).
Exporting the Data
After data is loaded, an Export button appears in the top-right area.
Available formats: CSV, PDF, HTML
Filename: policy-settings (with the appropriate extension)
The export respects all active filters — only the rows currently visible in the table are included.
The export includes one row per setting with these columns:
Policy Name
Name of the parent policy
Setting Name
Display name of the setting
Setting Value
Configured value
OMA-URI
The OMA-URI path (Device Config custom settings only, blank otherwise)
Source
catalog, deviceconfig, or grouppolicy
Platform
Platform string
Assigned
true or false
Status
ok, duplicate, or conflict
The export stats summary includes:
Total setting count
Settings Catalog count
Device Config count
Group Policy count
Duplicate count
Conflict count
Common Use Cases
Are there any conflicting settings in my tenant? Check the stats bar immediately after loading. If the red Conflicts badge shows any number greater than zero, click it to jump straight to a filtered view showing only conflicting rows. Click each Conflict badge to understand which policies are involved and what values they are each setting.
I am migrating from Device Configuration to Settings Catalog — what is already covered?
Enable both Settings Catalog and Device Config source filters, then set Status to Duplicate. Every row that appears is a setting that exists in both systems with the same value — those Device Config settings are safe to remove once you have confirmed the Settings Catalog policy is assigned correctly.
Full audit of all device configuration settings Load the page with no filters active and click Export → CSV. This produces a complete, line-by-line manifest of every setting configured across your entire tenant.
A device has a setting applied that I cannot explain Search for the setting name in the search box. All policies that configure that setting will appear. Check the source and the Assigned badge to understand which one is reaching the device.
Which ADMX / Group Policy settings have been imported into Intune?
Set the Source filter to Group Policy.
Check whether an unassigned policy contains any settings worth keeping
Set the Assignment filter to Not Assigned. Review the settings list — if the policy contains valuable settings, assign it or merge them into an existing active policy before deleting it.
Compare Windows and iOS configuration
Set Platform to Windows10 first, export the result. Then reset and set Platform to iOS, export again. You now have a per-platform configuration manifest.
Related Pages
Intune Policy Overview — see the policies these settings belong to, and manage them in bulk
All Assignments — see which groups each policy is assigned to
Group Assignments — see all configuration policies assigned to a specific group
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