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Windows Update for Business Reports, Reimagined: A Simpler Way to Analyze Updates

By John Marcum

Windows Update for Business Reports, Reimagined: A Simpler Way to Analyze Updates

How Customers Benefit

  • More Detailed Insights – These reports go beyond high-level compliance data, offering deeper analysis of update behaviors and trends.
  • Proactive Issue Resolution – Quickly identify and resolve update failures, ensuring a healthier device ecosystem.
  • Flexible Deployment – Available via GitHub, these reports can be customized and adapted to suit your organization’s needs.
  • Community-Driven Improvements – Built based on real customer feedback, these reports are tailored to address the most pressing challenges in update management.

Get Started Today

These reports are now available to BI for Intune customers on GitHub. You will find the instructions on how to use them in our documentation. Whether you need to fine-tune your update strategy, improve compliance tracking, or proactively address update-related issues, these reports provide the detailed insights you need.

Check them out and let us know what you think! We’re committed to continuously improving BI for Intune, and your feedback helps us shape the future of Windows Update for Business Reports reporting.


cumulative updates

Cumulative Updates

Provides an overview of the deployment status of monthly cumulative updates, highlighting compliance levels and devices that require attention. feature updates

Feature Updates

Tracks the rollout of Windows feature updates across the organization, helping admins assess adoption and identify issues. windows readiness

Windows Upgrade

Focuses on Windows version upgrades, offering insights into migration trends and potential blockers. driver updates

Driver Updates

Tracks the installation of drivers coming from Windows Driver Update Management in Microsoft Intune. device alerts

Device Alerts

These alerts are activated as a result of an issue that is device-specific. It isn’t specific to the combination of a specific update and a specific device. service alerts

Service Alerts

Alert for both client and service updates. Contains information that needs attention, relative to one device (client), one update, and one deployment (if relevant) delivery optimization

Delivery Optimization

Provides information on bandwidth utilization across content types in the event they use Delivery Optimization and Microsoft Connected Cache.

In-Depth Windows Update for Business Reports

Keeping Windows devices up to date is critical for security and performance.

This collection of seven detailed reports—designed from real customer feedback—helps IT admins track compliance, troubleshoot update issues, and optimize deployments with ease. Browse through the carousel to see each report in action and learn how they can improve your update management strategy. cumulative updates

Cumulative Updates

Provides an overview of the deployment status of monthly cumulative updates, highlighting compliance levels and devices that require attention. feature updates

Feature Updates

Tracks the rollout of Windows feature updates across the organization, helping admins assess adoption and identify issues. windows readiness

Windows Upgrade

Focuses on Windows version upgrades, offering insights into migration trends and potential blockers. driver updates

Driver Updates

Tracks the installation of drivers coming from Windows Driver Update Management in Microsoft Intune. device alerts

Device Alerts

These alerts are activated as a result of an issue that is device-specific. It isn’t specific to the combination of a specific update and a specific device. service alerts

Service Alerts

Alert for both client and service updates. Contains information that needs attention, relative to one device (client), one update, and one deployment (if relevant) delivery optimization

Delivery Optimization

Provides information on bandwidth utilization across content types in the event they use Delivery Optimization and Microsoft Connected Cache.

In-Depth Windows Update for Business Reports

Keeping Windows devices up to date is critical for security and performance.

This collection of seven detailed reports—designed from real customer feedback—helps IT admins track compliance, troubleshoot update issues, and optimize deployments with ease. Browse through the carousel to see each report in action and learn how they can improve your update management strategy.


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