Intune finally gets an update to its App inventory for Windows, replacing the old discovered Apps report, which lacked some often requested properties and never felt really up-to-date.
Use the report:
You can access the new report from the new All Apps report, either in the new Device view from “Tools and reports”:
Or from the old view directly under “Monitor”:
The Report obviously shows all installed Apps, but now also when it was installed, and if it was installed systemwide or for a specific user, an information that was not available in the old report:
One nice little add-on to that report is the “Last checked date” in the top right corner, letting us know how old the data that we look at actually is. For me this is probably the most useful addition, as it allows me to know if I can use the information or not.
Configure the inventory collection
Before we can use the new report, we have to enable the application data inventory:
If you already configured hardware inventory in properties catalog, we just need to modify the existing policy: https://mikemdm.de/2024/12/08/intune-hardware-inventory-is-now-available/
Otherwise, we need to create a new policy:
And select the properties that we are interested in:
Initially it can take some time until we can see the result in the portal, usually latest after 24h we should start to see data.
Conclusion
Wit the new App Inventory Intune once more closes a gap in visibility that was needed by many IT Pros and required either a commercial 3rd party solution or one of many community solutions like my PowerBI exports from three years ago: https://mikemdm.de/2023/04/30/powerbi-reports-for-advanced-windows-client-inventory-data-part-1/
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