How To Disable Device Diagnostics in Intune Admin Portal
In this post, I will show you how to disable device diagnostics in Intune admin portal. The device diagnostics feature was introduced inIntune service release 2102. Device diagnostics is turned on by default in Microsoft Intune, but you can turn it off if you don’t need it.
The “Collect diagnostics” feature in theIntune admin portalis a remote action that lets you get Windows device logs without bothering the user. Access is only given to non-user locations and file types, so no personal information is taken.
In my previous post, I showed you how tocollect Windows Device Logs with Intune. If you haven’t explored thedevice diagnostics featureyet, I would recommend doing so. It’s pretty easy and works awesome. Device diagnostics are available in Intune for corporate-managed devices running Windows 10, version 1909 and later. If you don’t plan to use the feature, you can disable the “Collect diagnostics” remote action for all devices.
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How to Disable Device Diagnostics in Intune Admin Portal
You can disable device diagnostics in Intune portal for all devices with the following steps:
- Sign in to the Microsoft Intune Portal.
- SelectTenant administration>Device diagnostics.
- Change the control toDisabledand this will turn off the device diagnostics feature.
In the Intune portal, go toDevices>Windowsand choose any Windows device to see if the device diagnostics feature has been turned off for devices. We can see that the option for device diagnostics is grayed out, which means you have successfully turned this feature off.
In Intune, you can turn on the device diagnostics feature by going toTenant administration>Device diagnosticsand turning the option on.