Windows Intune will raise an alert in a number of situations where we, as the administrators, will either need to be aware of an event or respond to it directly. The alerts will appear in a number of the screens and reports within Windows Intune and they can also be sent via e-mail to selected e-mail addresses. The recipients of the alert e-mails do not have to be administrators.
The reporting of alerts from the client computer to Windows Intune requires an Internet connection, so we are unlikely to see an alert saying that the user’s PC is having network trouble. However, if a user is having connectivity trouble we are still alerted, not because the client computer sends an alert, but because Windows Intune will raise an alert because the computer has not checked in for a period of time.
In this section we will examine how to configure Windows Intune alerts so the right people are notified for each different alert type.
Windows Intune provides two configuration...