The Microsoft Intune Discovery Event Monitor watches your Microsoft Intune account. Any new devices it detects will be added to a folder you specify automatically, cutting down on the time it takes to onboard devices to your configuration. This tutorial will teach you how to set one up!

To begin, enter the Azure credentials needed to access Microsoft. If you already have an authentication profile with these specifications, you can use that instead. Below the authentication section, you can choose the device group and naming scheme that will be used for discovered devices.

Discovery Settings

The first event monitor option lets you choose the level of alert you'll receive if the event monitor cannot contact Azure.

Lost Contact Setting

The second option lets you receive an alert of your choice if the event monitor cannot find a device that it previously detected in Microsoft Intune.

Missing Member Settings

The following three options decide what happens to devices that were previously discovered and added to your monitoring configuration, but are now no longer found in MS Intune. You can choose to pause and move the devices to a specified folder or just remove the devices from monitoring entirely.

Intune Device Sync Settings

The next options control what devices will be included in monitoring. Check the first box to include all devices, or mix and match all the other checkboxes to create a custom filter.

Filters

We also added the option to exclude certain network devices. Simply enter the names or IPs of devices you don't want to monitor, making sure to add each new device on a new line as below.

Devices to Ignore Field

The final few options control which devices will be picked up and added to your monitoring config. You can filter to include or exclude devices by associated contact name, email address, or management name. You can also choose to automatically exclude devices with no assigned owner.

Inclusion and Exclusion Settings

Now that you know how to configure a Microsoft Intune Discovery Event Monitor, you'll be able to spend much less time onboarding new network devices. Check out our other discovery event monitors on the Features page to save even more time. If you need more documentation on this event monitor, visit its Technical Resources page.

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