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Properties catalog in Microsoft Intune

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Device inventory

With Intune, you can use Device inventory to collect and view more hardware properties from your managed devices to help you better understand the state of your devices and make business decisions.

This article describes how to configure Device Inventory settings as part of an Intune device configuration profile. After you create a profile, you then assign or deploy that profile to your Windows devices.

This feature applies to:

Windows 11

Windows 10

Prerequisites

  • To use Inventory, devices must be corporate owned, Intune managed (includes co-managed), and Microsoft Entra joined.

  • For a user to configure a policy to start collecting inventory data from devices, they must have the Device Configurations Create permission.

  • For a user to view collected data about devices, they must have the Managed Devices Read permission.

Supported platforms

Inventory is currently only supported on devices running Windows 10 and later. Inventory is only supported on the following minimum Windows versions:

  • Windows 11, version 23H2 (22631.2506 or later) with KB5031455
  • Windows 11, version 22H2 (22621.2215 or later) with KB5029351
  • Windows 11, version 21H2 (22000.2713 or later) with KB5034121
  • Windows 10, version 22H2 (19045.3393 or later) with KB5030211
  • Windows 10, version 21H2 (19044.3393 or later) with KB5030211

How to use

To configure Inventory collection, create a new Properties Catalog profile in the Intune admin center. This profile allows you to select which properties you would like to collect from your devices.

After the profile is created, you can apply the profile to specific devices in the selected groups.

Create the profile

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center.

  2. Select Devices > Manage devices > Configuration > Create > New Policy.

  3. Enter the following properties:

    • Platform: Select Windows 10 and later.
    • Profile type: Select Properties catalog.

  4. Select Create.

  5. In Basics, enter the following properties:

    • Name: Enter a descriptive name for the new profile.
    • Description: Enter a description for the profile. This setting is optional, but recommended.

  6. Select Next.

  7. Select Add properties.Expand out categories to view individual properties and then select which properties you would like to collect from the Properties Picker.

    When you're done, select Next.

  8. On the Scope (Tags) page, select Select scope tags to open the Select tags pane to assign scope tags to the profile.

    Select Next to continue.

  9. On the Assignments page, select the groups that receive this profile. For more information on assigning profiles, see Assign user and device profiles.

    Select Next.

  10. On the Applicability Rules page, use the Rule, Property, and Value options to define how this profile applies within assigned groups.

  11. On the Review + create page, when you're done, choose Create. The profile is created and is shown in the list.

The next time each device checks in, the policy is applied.

View collected data

To view collected inventory information, navigate to Devices > Windows Devices and select a device.

Under Monitor select Resource Explorer. Choose a category to view hardware information.

After a device syncs with Intune, it can take up to 24 hours for initial harvesting of inventory data.

Required Properties

Certain required properties are automatically collected when you collect any properties in that category.

The following properties are required:

  • Battery: Instance Name
  • Bios Info: Bios Name, Software Element ID, Software Element State, Target Operating System
  • Cpu: Processor ID
  • Disk Drive: Drive ID
  • Encryptable Volume: Volume ID
  • Logical Drive: Drive Identifier
  • Network Adapter: Identifier
  • System Enclosure: Serial Number
  • Video Controller: Identifier
  • Windows Qfe: Hot Fix ID

Known Limitations

Collection of properties can only be stopped (deleted) at the category level.

To stop collecting properties, navigate to the Properties catalog profile, and remove collection for every property in a particular category.

Even if a properties policy is deleted, you will still be able to see the last-collected data in Resource Explorer for up to 28 days.

Supported Properties

Inventory supports the following entities. To learn more about what properties are supported for each entity, see Intune Data Platform Schema.

  • Battery
  • Bios Info
  • Cpu
  • Disk Drive
  • Encryptable Volume
  • Logical Drive
  • Memory Info
  • Network Adapter
  • Os Version
  • System Enclosure
  • Time
  • Tpm
  • Video Controller
  • Windows Qfe

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Resource Explorer different than the Hardware tab for a device?

Yes, the Hardware tab data and Resource Explorer data come from different places. We recommend using Inventory and Resource Explorer for the most up-to-date and comprehensive data about your devices. In the future, the data source for Hardware tab and the Resource Explorer will be the same.

I'm using Co-management with Tenant Attach and I see two Resource Explorer nodes. Which one should I use?

You'll see a Resource Explorer tab for Intune collected data and a Resource Explorer tab for Configuration Manager collected data. Feel free to use the source that best fits your use case. In the future, we recommend using the Intune-based Resource Explorer.

How can I troubleshoot this feature?

Client logs are available at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Device Inventory Agent\Logs and logs can also be collected via Collect MDM Diagnostics.