Introducing New Scenario-Specific Reports for Windows Update for Business Reports
At PowerStacks, we are always looking for ways to enhance the value of BI for Intune, our Power BI template app that provides deep insights into Microsoft Intune, Windows Update for Business Reports (WUfB Reports), and other cloud data sources. Our default reports already offer robust visibility into Windows Quality and Feature Updates, but we know that different organizations have unique needs. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new set of scenario-specific reports, available to our customers through GitHub.
Why These Reports Matter
Based on feedback from dozens of customers, we developed these reports to provide an even more in-depth and refined view of Windows Update deployments. Unlike the out-of-the-box reports included with BI for Intune, these new reports go further in providing actionable insights, helping IT admins make more informed decisions about update deployments, compliance, and troubleshooting. These reports leverage the data from Windows Update for Business Reports, but in a much more user-friendly and digestible format compared to the WUfB Reports workbook.
What’s Included in the New Reports?
This release consists of seven comprehensive report pages that deliver granular insights into different aspects of Windows Update for Business Reports. Each report is designed to help IT teams manage and optimize their update deployments more effectively.
Cumulative Update – Provides an overview of the deployment status of monthly cumulative updates, highlighting compliance levels and devices that require attention.
Feature Updates – Tracks the rollout of Windows feature updates across the organization, helping admins assess adoption and identify issues.
Windows Upgrade – Focuses on Windows version upgrades, offering insights into migration trends and potential blockers.
Driver Updates – Monitors the deployment of driver updates, ensuring compatibility and reducing the risk of hardware-related issues.
Device Alerts – Flags devices experiencing update failures or compliance risks, helping admins proactively address problems.
Service Alerts – Surfaces any disruptions or inconsistencies in update services, ensuring a smoother update experience.
Delivery Optimization – Analyzes update delivery efficiency, helping IT teams optimize bandwidth usage and peer-to-peer distribution.
Cumulative Updates
Provides an overview of the deployment status of monthly cumulative updates, highlighting compliance levels and devices that require attention.
Feature Updates
Tracks the rollout of Windows feature updates across the organization, helping admins assess adoption and identify issues.
Windows Upgrade
Focuses on Windows version upgrades, offering insights into migration trends and potential blockers.
Driver Updates
Tracks the installation of drivers coming from Windows Driver Update Management in Microsoft Intune.
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
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
Provides information on bandwidth utilization across content types in the event they use Delivery Optimization and Microsoft Connected Cache.
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.