Configuring a Settings catalog policy

We will start with Settings catalog (or Unified Settings catalog) policies, which will be your primary policy type moving forward. Many of the older policies are being migrated to Settings catalog, and due to the nature of the Graph underneath these new policy types, this allows for significantly more available settings (there are well over 25,000 at the time of writing).

Settings catalog is also cross-platform and can be used for Windows, macOS, and iOS policies at present, with more being migrated daily. You will find the vast majority of your traditional on-premises Group Policy Objects (GPOs) here as well. If there is a setting you cannot find, there are other deployment methods, which will be covered in the following recipes.

As a Settings catalog policy can contain many thousands of policy settings, it can become more difficult to troubleshoot and slow to load and edit within a browser. Similar to when dealing with on-premises GPO,...