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A pinch of 'Settings Catalog', a dash of 'Filters' and you've got yourself a perfect recipe.

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When Microsoft announced the  Settings catalog  feature in February this year, it opened a whole new world to endless possibilities of managing various Windows 10 device settings. The settings are generated directly from Windows Configuration Service Providers (CSP), and the experience in the catalog is dynamically generated based on the type of setting and its metadata. While still in preview, one can see that Microsoft is trying to standardize settings throughout Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Then in May this year, Microsoft released another feature in preview known as  Filters  which is another game changer in how apps and policies can now be assigned at a granular level on specific devices. While the feature does not support all workloads and has some  known issues  (understandably considering it is still in Preview), in my experience the feature works well and has reduced the use of Azure AD Dynamic device groups. Now that we have some background on...