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Device identity management

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Entra · Official Microsoft guidanceObserved changes retained

Observed content change

1 edited passage (6 words changed). No rule matched the changed words; review the source for its effect.

Read to decideThe wording changed without matching a rule; read the changed passages to decide.

Effect uncertain
EditedDownload devices
[removed: Cloud Device Administrators and Intune Administrators] [added: Any user] can use the Download devices option to export a CSV file that lists devices. You can apply filters to determine which devices to list. If you don't apply any filters, all devices are listed. The exported list includes these device …

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Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.

Observation details · observed 9 Oct 23:21 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
9 Oct 23:21 UTC
Source update metadata
9 Oct 17:41 UTC
First observed on this installation
8 Oct 23:13 UTC
Last successful check
today 18:27 UTC
Next check due
21 Oct 00:27 UTC

Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.

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Timeline

From the capture of 9 Oct 23:21 UTC · an earlier observation

Legacy capture: table structure or oversized sections are unavailable for extraction

Microsoft's revision log on this page · 20 entries

Dates from the page's own change log or history section. They describe earlier edits, not upcoming policy.

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

Observed history and review priority

Captured 9 Oct 23:21 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:11 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c/legacy.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 15

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/entra-docs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read 19 Oct 23:40 UTC.

  1. Learn Editor: Update manage-device-identities.md Served on LearnView diff
  2. Update Microsoft SSO for Linux device guidance (#14193) View diff
  3. Clarify joiner local administrator behavior View diff
  4. Fix typos and improve clarity in device management doc View diff
  5. Merge branch 'main' into owinfreyATL-Devices-VM-Update View diff
  6. Update docs/identity/devices/manage-device-identities.md View diff
  7. Adding note on static columns, speed of processing with certain columns enabled and translation for hybrid View diff
  8. fixing custom note markdown View diff
  9. Clarify trustType translations in device identity export View diff
  10. Refine CSV export attributes and column management View diff
  11. Clarify device export attributes and column management View diff
  12. Fixed links View diff
8 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. Merging changes synced from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/entra-docs-pr (branch live) Metadata onlyView diff
  2. [BULK UPDATE] Metadata: Move author/ms.author/ms.service/ms.subservice/manager to folder level (3/5) Metadata onlyView diff
  3. Moves manager to folder level for /identity/ and out of individual files. Metadata onlyView diff
  4. Merge pull request #10952 from OWinfreyATL/pr/ploegert/10527 Metadata onlyView diff
  5. Updated dates Metadata onlyView diff
  6. updates Metadata onlyView diff
  7. Device Manager Updates Metadata onlyView diff
  8. adding image meta data Metadata onlyView diff

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 12 Oct 23:53 UTC

    8 removed passages (about 50 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.

  • 9 Oct 23:21 UTC · shown above
  • 8 Oct 23:13 UTC

    Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

No field changes in the recorded history.

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Sources read 20 Oct 21:54 UTC · 257 of 260 readable · 255 fully read · documentation 416/439 current