Ending support for administrative templates when creating a new configuration profile

Week of December 16, 2024 (Service release 2412)

App management
Increased scale for Customization policies
You can now create up to 25 policies that customize the Company Portal and Intune app experience. The previous maximum number of Customization policies was 10. Navigate to the Intune admin center, and select Tenant administration>Customization.

Device security
Support for tamper protection in policies for Security settings management for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
You can now manage the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint CSP setting for tamper protection on unenrolled devices you mange as part of the Defender for Endpoint security settings management scenario.

With this support, tamper protection configurations from Windows Security Experience profiles for Antivirus policies now apply to all devices instead of only to those that are enrolled with Intune.

Device configuration
Ending support for administrative templates when creating a new configuration profile
Customers cannot create new Administrative Templates configuration profile through Devices>Configuration>Create>New policy>Windows 10 and later>Administrative Templates. A (retired) tag is seen next to Administrative Templates and the Create button is now greyed out. Other templates will continue to be supported.

However, customers can now use the Settings Catalog for creating new Administrative Templates configuration profile by navigating to Devices >Configuration>Create>New policy>Windows 10 and later>Settings Catalog.

There are no changes in the following UI experiences:

• Editing an existing Administrative template.
• Deleting an existing Administrative template.
• Adding, modifying or deleting settings in an existing Administrative template.
• Imported Administrative templates (Preview) template, which is used for Custom ADMX.

Applies to:

• Windows