Create Intune Settings Catalog Policy HTMD Blog

This post teaches you to create a policy with the Intune Settings Catalog. The 2101 Service Release of Microsoft Intune added a new feature settings catalog to make it easier for MEM Admins to customize, set, and manage device and user policy settings.

The settings catalog adds functionality for managing and deploying policies. It makes it easier to find specific settings and simplifies the multiple places where settings are exposed.

The Setting Catalog is generally available (GA) for Windows and macOS devices, starting with Intune Service Release 2206. This helps the product team continuously provide valuable feedback about the new feature in the preview before the Microsoft product team finalizes the features.

When you create the policy, it creates a device configuration profile. You can then assign or deploy this profile to devices in your organization. If you want to turn off Windows 10 News and Interests on the Taskbar using MEM Intune, check out the post on managing settings with the Settings Catalog.

What is Settings Catalog in Intune?

The settings catalog lists all the settings you can configure in one place. This feature simplifies creating a policy and seeing all the available settings. More settings are continually being added.

Microsoft made many improvements to Intune settings catalog policies. The policies avoid any parity issue between Intune and Windows 10 CSP policy support. In the past, there was a big parity issue between Windows MDM-supported and Intune-supported CSP policies.

Most Intune admins used custom policies to catch up with this parity issue between Intune Vs. Windows MDM parity issue. This was giving organizations a lot of overhead in terms of managing policies.

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Supported Platforms

This feature is supported for the following systems –

macOS
iOS/iPadOS
Windows 10/11

How to Configure Settings Catalog profile?

Let’s check the steps to create a policy and show how to search and filter the settings in Intune.

Sign in to the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center
Select Devices > Configuration profiles > Create profile.

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In Create Profile, You can select Platform: Select macOS or Windows 10 and later and Profile: Select Settings catalog (preview). Click on Create button. For Example – we have selected the platform Windows 10 and later.

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In Basics, specify a descriptive name for the profile and a description (optional), then select Next.

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In Configuration settings, select Add settings.

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In the settings picker, select a category to see all the available settings. You can browse by category or scroll through the list of available settings to find the settings you need.

Note: The Settings Picker will allow you to search, browse for, and select any settings available in the settings catalog for configuration in your policy.

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Use Search to find specific settings

The settings catalog contains thousands of settings. Use the built-in features to make it easier to find specific settings.

In your policy, use Add Settings> Search to find specific settings. You can search by category or a keyword, such as Lock Screen.

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Filtering Policy Settings

The new settings catalog filter allows Intune admin to use filter settings to narrow down the search based on the Operating system edition.

In your policy, use Add settings > Add filter. Next, select the key, operator, and value. In value, you can filter Windows 10 OS editions. This means you can set the filter for Windows Enterprise and see all settings applicable to Windows devices running that edition of Windows 10.

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You can select any settings you want to configure or choose to Select all these settings. For example, you have selected Power to see all the settings in this category. After you add your settings, close the settings picker.

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All the settings are shown and configured with a default value. Select the minus if you don’t want to configure a setting.

When you click on the information icon for every setting, tooltip text and values will display directly to help you understand exactly what each setting will do when configured.

Any setting not in your policy will be considered not configured in the settings catalog. Removing a setting from an existing settings catalog policy will not only remove that setting from the policy but also remove the previously set enforcement from assigned devices on the next device check-in.

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In Assignments, select the users or groups that will receive your profile. Select Next to continue.
You can assign a tag to filter the profile to specific IT groups in scope tags. Add scope tags (if required) and click Next.
Review your settings in Review + Create. When you select Create, your changes are saved, and the profile is assigned. The policy is also shown in the profiles list.
The next time the device checks for configuration updates, the settings you configured are applied.

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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP for 10 consecutive years from 2015 onwards. He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.

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