How to Control Automatic Display Adjustments on HoloLens Using Intune HTMD Blog

Important Points

• This policy creates HoloLens display management easier.
• When policy enabled, the device adjusts the display automatically and users can start working faster.
• When policy is disabledusers must adjust the display manually for greater personal accuracy.
• Organizations can choose based on settings on their needs.
• That makes HoloLens easy to use for everyone

Hey, let’s discuss about How to Control Automatic Display Adjustments on HoloLens using Intune. This policy controls the HoloLens display adjusted automatically for each user. This helps device set the best visual position for the hologram to be visible clear and comfortable. Users do not need to change settings manually before using the device.

How to Control Automatic Display Adjustments on HoloLens using Intune

This policy is important because it makes HoloLens easy to use for everyone. Different users have different eye positions, and automatic adjustment provides a better experience. He reduce errors and improve comfort during long-term use.

Create a Profile

First, log in to the Microsoft Intune admin center. Then, go to Device > Configuration > Create > New policy. In the next window, select platform as Windows 10 and laterand select profile type as Settings Catalog. Click Make to continue.

Basic Steps

You need to enter some basic details, such as Name and a information. For example, I entered the name as Automatic Display Adjustment. In the description, I put it To Enable Automatic Display adjustments. After filling in the details, click Next to continue.

Configuration Settings

On this page, we click + Add Settings hyperlink. Then you will get a setting optionsr which will display various types of categories to select certain settings. Here, I chose to do it Mixed Reality category and select Automatic Display Adjustment.

Once you select these settings and close the Settings selector. You will see it in Configuration page. Here we have only two settings: Enabled or Disabled. By default, Auto Display adjustment will be set to Allow. If you want to allow this setting, click it Next knob.

Block this Policy

If we block or do not configure this policy, you can block Automatic Appearance adjustments by toggle the switch from right to left. Then, you can click Next button to continue.

A Scope Tag in Intune I’m used to it control visibility and access to Intune resources based on administrative roles. The coverage tag is not mandatory. You can add scope tags using Select a scope tag knob. Click the Next button to continue.

Task

In Task tab, we can choose which user or device get this policy. Under Include Groups, click Add Group. From the list, select the group we want to target (HTMD – Test Policy). Then click the Next button.

Final Step

In the final Review + Create step, we see a summary of all the settings configured for the new profile; after reviewing the details and making the necessary changes by clicking Previously. We clicked Create to finish, and a notification confirmed that “Automatic Display Adjustment created successfully”.

Monitoring Status

We can check the policy status at Intun Portal. Generally, it takes approx 8 hours so that policies can be created. Use manual synchronization option to reduce configuration delays in Company Portal application on the device, then check the status again. Navigate to Device > Configuration. Click on specific policy (Automatic Display Adjustment).

How to Remove an Assigned Group from this Policy

Sometimes, we need to delete group of policy assignments for security updates. Open the policy from the Configuration tab and click it Edit button on the Tasks tab. Click on Delete button in this section to delete the policy. Click Review + Save after making changes.

For more information, you can refer to our previous post – Learn How to Delete or Unassign Apps from Intune using Step by Step Guide.

How to Remove this Policy from the Intune Portal

To delete Intune policies for security or operational reasons. This is easy to do. I’ll show you how to delete Intune policies via AAutomatic Display Adjustment. Click three dotsthen click Delete choice.

For more information, you can refer to our previous post – How to Remove Allow Clipboard History Policy in Intune Step by Step Guide.

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Anoop C Nair has been a Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for 10 years in a row! He is a Workplace Solutions Architect with over 22+ years of experience in the Workplace technology space. He is also a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. The main focus is on Device Management technologies such as SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.