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What are Filters inside of Microsoft Intune? If you’re embarking on your Intune journey or have been navigating it for a while, encountering the Filters icon might raise some questions. Fear not! Filters within Intune serve a crucial purpose: they allow us to refine the assignment of apps, policies, and profiles. By creating filters, we gain the ability to dynamically target managed devices or managed apps. For instance, if your goal is to deploy an app exclusively to Windows 11 devices, you can achieve this by setting up a filter that specifically targets devices meeting that criterion.

Scenario: You’re tasked with deploying Microsoft Whiteboard to all Windows 11 devices in your environment.

Requirements

Role: Intune Administrator

Create Filter:

Go to Microsoft Intune > Select Tenant administration

Click on Filters > + Create > Managed devices

In the Basics page set your Filter name, Description, and set the Platform to Windows 10 and later > Click Next

In the Rules section we are going to create our filter by selecting
Property: osVersion (OS version)
Operator: StartsWith
Value: 10.0.22
The value is the version prefix for Windows 11.

Review + create

Let’s test this filter by deploying Microsoft Whiteboard to all devices with the Windows 11 Device Filter we created.

During our app deployment process, we can select the +Add all devices and we can see the Filter currently is set to None. Click on None to view your Filter options where we want to select Include filtered devices in assignment and choose our Windows 11 Device Filter.

Now we can see the assignment is set to All devices and it includes the Filter Windows 11 Device Filter so now all devices that are on the Windows 11 OS will receive the Microsoft Whiteboard and not any other Windows operating system.

Windows 11 Device with toast notifications that Microsoft Whiteboard was installed successfully

Windows 10 Result, we can see inside of the Device install status that the app was not offered due to the evaluation result not matching the Windows 11 filter, success!

We can also verify by checking the Downloads & updates in the Company Portal. On the Windows 10 device it does not have Microsoft Whiteboard installed and the Windows 11 device on the bottom does have it installed.