Will Advanced Insights reporting work when MECM workloads are Intune?

[c3rberus]

Hello,

We use PMPC and Advanced Insights for reporting purposes, currently our workloads are set to Configuration Manager, and our plan is to standardize on a single endpoint management tool, Intune, hence the CoMgmtSettings slider has to be moved to Intune.

Obviously, there is a lot that we need to migrate before we can do that, and I know AI support for Intune is on the roadmap (not sure of the ETA, but I did read that PMPC will share more by EOY), but in the interim, if we move all workload to Intune, keep MECM/CCM Agent for inventory/reporting purposes only, how effective will the reporting in AI be?

As an example, if we are not pushing patches via MECM, would that break the software updates reporting capabilities in AI?

[Adam Cook (Patch My PC)]

Hello,

We use PMPC and Advanced Insights for reporting purposes, currently our workloads are set to Configuration Manager, and our plan is to standardize on a single endpoint management tool, Intune, hence the CoMgmtSettings slider has to be moved to Intune.

Obviously, there is a lot that we need to migrate before we can do that, and I know AI support for Intune is on the roadmap (not sure of the ETA, but I did read that PMPC will share more by EOY), but in the interim, if we move all workload to Intune, keep MECM/CCM Agent for inventory/reporting purposes only, how effective will the reporting in AI be?

As an example, if we are not pushing patches via MECM, would that break the software updates reporting capabilities in AI?

Hey c3rberus,

Sorry for our delayed reply.

Once you move the workload for Windows Update Policies to Intune, clients will not submit their compliance data to WSUS/ConfigMgr for Windows updates - however they will still for third-party updates.

This is true for as long as you keep the Software Updates policy enabled in the Client Settings for ConfigMgr and the option "Enable third-party software updates" set as "Yes". Once you turn the software updates component entirely off, however, then all software update reporting (inc. third-party updates) will not be visible in Advanced Insights.

However, the device will still submit hardware inventory to ConfigMgr, so for everything else, excluding software updates reporting, Advanced Insights will still be capable in that regard.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have more questions.