🎯 Purpose
✅ Enable Endpoint Analytics by allowing Windows Health Monitoring on all Windows devices.
➡️ This supports Essential Eight–aligned operational visibility by providing insight into device boot performance and Windows Update reliability, without impacting users or enabling unnecessary telemetry.
👥 Who is affected
✅ Devices: All Windows 10/11 devices
🚫 Exclusions: None
➡️ Every enrolled Windows device reports health data required for Endpoint Analytics.
☁️ What data is collected
✅ Signals collected:
Boot and sign‑in performance
Windows Update history and reliability
🚫 Not collected:
App health telemetry
Endpoint classification data
Custom or expanded device signals
➡️ Only the minimum essential dataset required for Endpoint Analytics is enabled.
🔧 How Endpoint Analytics is enabled
✅ Windows Health Monitoring is enabled at the OS level
✅ Monitoring scope limited to:
Boot performance
Windows Updates
➡️ This allows Intune to surface high‑value analytics while keeping telemetry tightly scoped.
ℹ️ Note: No custom monitoring scopes are configured.
⚙️ What this policy does NOT enforce
🚫 App health monitoring
🚫 Device reliability or process telemetry
🚫 Remote analytics signals
🚫 Custom analytics scopes
➡️ This is intentional to keep the policy lightweight and suitable for organisation‑wide deployment.
🟢 Policy status
✅ Enabled
✅ Actively collecting Endpoint Analytics data
📘 Essential Eight Alignment
✅ Supports Essential Eight – Operational Visibility (Maturity Level 1)
✅ Enables measurement of:
Patch compliance
Update reliability
Device startup performance
ℹ️ Advanced analytics and extended telemetry are addressed in higher maturity levels.
📘 Practical Interpretation (Executive‑Friendly)
This configuration policy ensures that:
✅ All Windows devices
✅ Provide basic health and update telemetry
✅ Enabling Endpoint Analytics insights in Intune
This delivers immediate operational value — such as identifying slow boot devices and update failures — while maintaining a minimal, non‑intrusive telemetry footprint aligned to Essential Eight Maturity Level 1.