Intune Custom Compliance Broadens Conditional Access to Verify PC Integrity

• Intune custom compliance allows Intune admins to query any Windows or Linux setting, and enables conditional access.
• The feature will help ensure client devices meet organizational standards.
• Some organizations will likely find the feature useful for Windows and invaluable for Linux desktops.
• Though complicated, the feature is fundamental to managing Linux desktops with Intune due to the lack of native device management on that platform.

An Intune feature called custom compliance allows Intune to query any arbitrary Windows or Linux OS configuration setting, even if the setting is not directly manageable through Intune. This feature will be useful to ensure that devices running Windows and Linux are complying with organizational standards through the conditional access capabilities of Intune and Entra ID. In particular, conditional access can check any organizationally defined client device settings, such as the presence of a specific security update, before allowing devices to connect to corporate resources. The feature arrived first for Windows clients and then for Linux clients.