On the blade, select Settings to open the – Settings blade Profile type: Select Administrative Templates (Preview).Description: (Optional) Provide a description for the device configuration profile.Name: Provide a unique name for the device configuration profile.On the Create profile blade, provide the following information and click Create to open the blade On the Device configuration – Profiles blade, select Create profile to open the Create profile blade Open the Azure portal and navigate to Microsoft Intune > Device configuration > Profiles to open the Device configuration – Profiles blade After the creation of the policies it can be assigned to a user and/or device group.
The following six steps walk through the creation of an Administrative Templates profile type that will be used to configure the Office update channel. In case of Office settings, which will be used in this post, these profiles even take care of ingesting the correct ADMX-files. These profiles take care of the heavy work. Since recently Microsoft Intune contains a new profile type, named Administrative Templates. When this would be a configuration of an ADMX-backed settings, the information in the table above would be really relevant during the configuration.
Microsoft Intune will now provide an easy method for configuring many ADMX-backed settings, without going through the actual ADMX anymore.
It will be useful for verifying the results. As this post will show, it wasn’t even necessary for the configuration in this post. Good news! This is actually the last time that it’s really required to look at this information. The following table shows the naming of the different channels in Microsoft Intune (and the Office apps) and in the actual ADMX. Configurationīefore looking at the actual configuration steps, it might be good to first refresh memories by looking at the naming of the update channels in the different locations.
In this post I’ll show the configuration steps, followed by the configuration results on a Windows 10 device. That’s not necessary anymore, as Microsoft Intune now provides a built-in list of available administrative template policy settings. Before, this configuration would require ingesting a custom ADMX and creating custom OMA-URI settings, for configuring the Office channel, based on the information in the ingested custom ADMX. That specific use case is to easily control and configure the Office update channel by using the Administrative Templates profile type within Microsoft Intune. Let’s start this new year about a specific use case for the recently introduced feature to configure administrative template settings via Microsoft Intune.