Intune config profile deployment company wide - use "ALL USERS" group or not

Question

Hi

Heard that deploying Intune profile company wide, its not recommended to use the built in "ALL USERS" group. Instead create a custom dynamic group to achieve this.

So created a dynamic user group, to target all users with E5 license. However, noticed that not all users have E5 license.

Tried a query to target all users with email address, but that was no good as well, as not all users had email addresses.

Can someone recommend, a good dynamic query to cover all users?

Also, non E5 licensed users, still seem to receive Intune policies. Is this as expected?

Thanks DM.

Answer 1

@David Moon, Thanks for posting in Q&A. In Fact, to deploy Intune policy, Microsoft Intune license is needed for the user.

Meanwhile, if you want to assign policy to all users, you can just use the All users group.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/configuration/device-profile-assign#assign-a-policy-to-users-or-groups

But if you want to just assign to some users, you can check if any property of the user in the following link can be used to create dynamic group to meet your requirement.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/users/groups-dynamic-membership#properties-of-type-string

For the scenario you want to only apply the policy to some specific devices of the users, you can consider use Intune Filter.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/fundamentals/filters-device-properties

Hope the above information can help.

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Answer 2

@David Moon here is good article to read on filtering and the use of the built in groups.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/intune-grouping-targeting-and-filtering-recommendations-for-best/ba-p/2983058