Let’s discuss Policy Management with Copilot Simplify Configuration and Enhance Security in Intune, which was announced on Ignite 2024. Microsoft decided to bring the Security Copilot abilities to Intune Policy Management. It is the most significant step in Intune Policy Management.
Creating a Policy is very familiar to Intune users. Now, Policy creation is simpler in Intune with Security Copilot. Moreover, this new feature helps users gain deeper insights into the various settings, understand information about the impact of security policies, and more.
Copilot Assistant for Policy Management is now available on Public Preview. Creating a policy in Intune is also very straightforward for beginners. By launching this feature on Intune, Microsoft simplified device management.
In this blog post, I will explain how Security Copilot works on Intune Policy Management and help you learn more about Enhancing Intune Policy Management using Security Copilot, announced at Ignite 2024.
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Policy Management with Copilot Simplify Configuration and Enhance Security in Intune
As mentioned above, Copilot Assistant for Policy Management is now available on Public Preview. To experience this enhancement on Intune, you must enable the security Copilot. Once you allow the security copilot in Intune, you can experience its abilities.
On the Ignite Event 2024, Mr Amit Ghodke explained the Intune Policy Management using Security Copilot. Also, he discussed about the Copilot Assistance for troubleshooting, etc. He is the Principal Product Manager Architect.
| Features of Intune Policy Management | Details |
|---|---|
| Gain Settings Insight | Individual settings and recommended values |
| Predict Policy Impact | Summarize the impact on security and users |
| Avoid Policy Conflicts | Has a setting been configured in another policy |
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Summarize with Copilot
In the Intune portal, click on policy management, which will walk you through the initial introduction to using Copilot in Intune.
- Click on the Next button in the pop-up window titled “Get help while creating a new policy.”
- Then click on the Got it button on the next pop-up window, “Let Copilot Summarize a policy.”
- Select a created security policy from this window.
To summarize a policy, you can open one created in Intue with Copilot. Here, I am showing an example demonstrated on Ignite 2024. I will select security policies made by the admins about a year ago and start understanding what’s on this policy.
- Click on the Summarize with Copilot button from the below window
- Enter the prompt “Summarize this policy”
Copilot summarises the policy leveraging the Intune plug-in with the power of Security Copilot. Here, you can see the list of the various settings associated with the values. It also provided me with information about the assigned groups included and excluded.
Impact of the Policy on Security
With Security Copilot, you can understand the impact of this particular policy on security. To do this, start by asking Copilot to “Describe the impact of this policy on security.” Sure enough, Copilot understands the context. It will summarize the information and give me actionable, useful insights regarding security.
Furthermore, exploring a particular setting is also possible on Intune. You will notice now that we have a Copilot moniker next to each setting. Clicking on it invokes a prompt that helps you understand more about the policy settings.
So, “Tell me about the policy setting”. In this case, it happens to be blocked, and untrusted and unsigned processes run from USB. Look at the output here; it is getting more relevant information than just text. More importantly, I want to ensure that I will not cause conflicts.
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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for 10 consecutive years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is also 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.