The pattern
Platform - Policy type - Purpose - Ring
WIN-CONF-EdgeBaseline-PRD
25 of 64 characters for a policy or profile
What each part means
| Part | Here | What it says | Other values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | WIN | The operating system. | MAC, IOS, AND, LNX, WEB |
| Policy type | CONF | The kind of policy or profile. | COMP, SEC, APP, UPD, WIFI |
| Purpose | EdgeBaseline | What the item does, in your own words. | free text |
| Ring | PRD | The deployment ring or environment that receives it. | PILOT, CAN, DEV, TEST, UAT |
Parts are joined with “-”. In the builder you can change every value, the separator and the order, add parts and remove them.
When to use it
For settings catalog and template profiles, which make up most of an Intune tenant. Putting the platform first sorts profiles by operating system, and the ring at the end shows who receives them.
- Name the area the profile covers, not a single setting: EdgeBaseline, not DisableEdgeSync.
- One profile per purpose makes a conflict easy to trace back.
- If you do not deploy in rings, remove the last segment instead of writing PRD everywhere.
More names in this pattern
- WIN-CONF-EdgeBaseline-PRD
- WIN-CONF-OneDriveSync-PILOT
- MAC-CONF-LoginWindow-PRD
- IOS-CONF-WifiCorporate-PRD