Guides

Practical guides for getting the most out of IntuneSentry — from importing baselines to managing drift at scale.

Getting started

Setup 8 min read

Getting started with IntuneSentry

Connect your first M365 tenant, import a baseline, and run your first security assessment in under 10 minutes.

Setup 5 min read

Connecting an M365 tenant via OAuth

Step-by-step walkthrough of the Microsoft OAuth flow and the Graph API permissions IntuneSentry requests.

Alerting 4 min read

Setting up alert channels

Configure Slack, Teams, email, webhooks, PagerDuty, or Pushover to receive policy change notifications.

Baselines & deployment

Baselines 6 min read

Importing baselines from GitHub

Browse community repos like OpenIntuneBaseline, select policies by type, and create a deployment-ready baseline.

Baselines 5 min read

Importing baselines from a tenant

Pick policies from an existing connected tenant to build a baseline from your live environment.

Deploy 7 min read

Deploying baselines to tenants

Deploy all or selected policies, configure assignments (all users, all devices, or groups), and track progress.

Deploy 3 min read

Understanding dry-run mode

Preview what a deployment will do before pushing any changes to your tenant.

Drift & compliance

Drift 6 min read

Understanding baseline drift

How IntuneSentry compares tenant policies against baselines and calculates compliance scores.

Drift 4 min read

Accepting intentional deviations

When a drift is expected, accept it with a reason. Accepted drifts are excluded from compliance scoring.

Drift 3 min read

Bulk managing drifts

Select multiple drifts and accept them all at once with a shared reason — great for onboarding or tenant-specific configs.

Assessments 7 min read

Running security assessments

Evaluate tenants against Intune best practices covering compliance, conditional access, app protection, and more.

Policy monitoring

Monitoring 6 min read

Understanding change detection

How IntuneSentry compares policy snapshots and what triggers a change event.

Monitoring 3 min read

Bulk acknowledging changes

Select multiple changes and acknowledge them at once. Filter by type, policy, or status first.

Security 6 min read

Conditional Access monitoring

Monitor changes to Conditional Access policies and get alerted before security gaps open.

MSPs & multi-tenant

MSP 10 min read

IntuneSentry for MSPs

How to monitor multiple client tenants, deploy standardised baselines, and track compliance from a single account.

MSP 8 min read

Onboarding a new client tenant

Connect, import a baseline, deploy it, set up alerts, and run an initial assessment — the recommended workflow.

Organisation 3 min read

Using tenant tags

Organise tenants with tags for filtering. Useful for grouping by client, region, or compliance tier.

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