Building Custom Intune Reports Without PowerShell

The traditional approach to Intune reporting involves PowerShell scripts, the Microsoft Graph API, and a lot of manual effort. You write a script to authenticate, query the API, transform the JSON response into something readable, and export the results to a CSV or Excel file. When requirements change, you update the script. When a new report is needed, you write another one. Over time, teams accumulate a library of scripts that are fragile, poorly documented, and tied to the individual who wrote them. For MSPs juggling multiple tenants, this approach multiplies the complexity because each tenant may need slight variations of the same reports.

The Govex report builder replaces this entire workflow with a visual interface. You start by selecting an entity type such as devices, users, compliance policies, or update states. From there, you choose the columns you want to include in the report and add filters to narrow the results. Filters support standard comparison operators, so you can build reports for specific OS versions, compliance states, device ownership types, or any other attribute in your dataset. The entire process is point-and-click with no scripting knowledge required, which means any team member can create reports without depending on the person who happens to know PowerShell.

Govex also ships with pre-built templates for the most commonly requested reports. Compliance status summaries, device inventory with hardware details, and user license status reports are available out of the box. These templates provide a starting point that you can customize by adding or removing columns and adjusting filters. For teams that are new to Govex, templates are the fastest way to get useful reports into stakeholders' hands on the first day.

Reports can be exported in CSV and Excel formats for sharing with clients or importing into other tools. But the real time savings come from scheduled report delivery. You can configure any report to run automatically and deliver results via email on a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence. A weekly compliance summary that lands in your client's inbox every Monday morning is the kind of consistent, professional reporting that strengthens MSP relationships. Scheduled reports eliminate the recurring manual effort of pulling the same data, formatting it, and sending it out. For MSPs managing multiple tenants, this alone can save hours of work per week.

The report builder is available on the Professional plan and is accessible from the Reports page in the Govex dashboard. Reports respect tenant isolation, so each report runs against the data for the currently selected tenant. Scheduled reports are delivered with the tenant name clearly identified, making them ready for client distribution without additional formatting or context.