Force sync for All devices via PowerShell

When deploying policy settings or applications via Intune the devices need to sync (as per their sync cycles) and that might take some time. We know that we can invoke a sync from Intune console using Bulk Device Actions however, there is a limitation that the sync can be initiated to max 100 device at a time.

So how do we force the sync on all devices just like we did the gpupdate /force in our on-prem environment? We use MS-Graph and PowerShell to do the trick.

Open a PowerShell console as admin and execute the below commands to install the pre-requisites. Set the Execution Policy as Unrestricted.

Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Graph.Intune
Import-Module -Name Microsoft.Graph.Intune
Connect-MSGraph

Here is the script to force the sync for all Windows devices.

$Devices = Get-IntuneManagedDevice -Filter "contains(operatingsystem, 'Windows')"

$Devices.count

Foreach ($Device in $Devices)

{

Invoke-IntuneManagedDeviceSyncDevice -managedDeviceId $Device.managedDeviceId

Write-Host "Sending Sync request to Device with DeviceID $($Device.managedDeviceId)"

}

The results!

You can change the -filter for OS to 'IOS' or 'Android' to force sync mobile devices.

That's all for today.