Standards & Drift Alignment
Understanding Standards
This page is a reference to the features of the Standard & Drift Alignment page in CIPP. To better understand Standards and Drift, please see the main page for Standards & Drift.
This page gives you a snapshot of how your tenants measure up against your Standards and Drift templates. The same underlying data is presented three ways, and you switch between them with the toggle at the top of the table. Each view carries its own columns, filters, and actions.
Summary
See one row per tenant and template pairing, for an overall alignment picture.
Per Standard
Drill into individual standards, one row per tenant per standard.
By Standard
Aggregate across tenants, to see how a single standard is faring estate-wide.
Summary View
One row per tenant and template pairing, showing how closely that tenant matches that template overall.
Filters
Drift Templates
Shows only rows for templates that are Drift Standards.
Classic Templates
Shows only rows for templates that are Classic Standards.
Table Details
Tenant
The name of the tenant.
Standard Name
The name of the template the tenant is being aligned to.
Standard Type
Whether the template is a Classic Standard or a Drift Standard.
Alignment Score
The percentage of standards in the template that the tenant is aligned with.
License Missing Percentage
The percentage of standards in the template that the tenant is not licensed for. 0% means the tenant holds the licences needed for everything in the template.
Combined Alignment Score
Alignment reweighted to discount standards the tenant is not licensed for, so unlicensed settings do not count against the tenant.
Pending Deviations Count
For drift templates, the number of detected deviations awaiting a decision.
Denied Deviations Count
For drift templates, the number of deviations that have been denied.
Filters are available for Drift Templates and Classic Templates.
Table Actions
Edit Template
Opens the template for editing.
Manage Drift
Opens the Manage Drift page for this tenant and template. Only shown on drift templates.
Remove Drift Customization
Removes all global and client level overrides and resets the tenant to the template settings. Only shown on drift templates. This regenerates alerts for the items that had drifted.
Per Standard View
One row per tenant per standard, so you can filter down to a single standard and see exactly which tenants are failing it.
Filters
Non-Compliant
Shows only rows where the tenant does not match the standard.
Compliant
Shows only rows where the tenant matches the standard.
Accepted Deviation
Shows only rows where the tenant differs from the standard but the difference has been reviewed and accepted.
Customer Specific
Shows only rows where the tenant has a deliberate customer-specific value in place of the template's.
License Missing
Shows only rows where the tenant is not licensed for the setting, so the standard was skipped rather than failed.
Table Details
Tenant
The name of the tenant.
Compliance Status
The result for this standard on this tenant. See below.
Standard Name
The name of the standard being evaluated.
Template Name
The template containing the standard.
Standard Type
Whether the template is a Classic Standard or a Drift Standard.
Latest Data Collection
How long ago the data behind this result was collected.
Compliance Status
Compliant
The tenant matches the standard.
Non-Compliant
The tenant does not match the standard.
Accepted Deviation
The tenant differs from the standard, but the difference has been reviewed and accepted.
Customer Specific
The tenant has a deliberate client-specific value set in place of the template's.
License Missing
The tenant is not licensed for the setting, so the standard was skipped rather than failed.
Reporting Disabled
The standard is applied without Report enabled, so there is no result to compare.
Filters are available for Non-Compliant, Compliant, Accepted Deviation, Customer Specific, and License Missing.
Table Actions
Edit Template
Opens the template for editing.
Manage Drift
Opens the Manage Drift page for this tenant and template. Only shown on drift templates.
More Info
Opens the Extended Info flyout with the full details for the selected row.
By Standard View
One row per standard, aggregated across every tenant it applies to. Use this to find the standards that are failing widely rather than the tenants that are failing.
Filters
Fully Compliant
Shows only standards where every applicable tenant is aligned, whether compliant, on an accepted deviation, or set to a customer-specific value.
Has Non-Compliant
Shows only standards where at least one tenant is non-compliant.
License Missing
Shows only standards where at least one tenant is missing the licence needed for it.
Accepted Deviation
Shows only standards where at least one tenant has an accepted deviation from it.
Table Details
Standard Name
The name of the standard being evaluated.
Category
The category the standard belongs to.
Standard Type
The template type or types the standard is applied through across your tenants.
Total Tenants
The number of tenants the standard applies to.
Tenants
The tenants the standard applies to.
Compliance Percentage
The percentage of those tenants that are in compliance with the standard.
License Missing Percentage
The percentage of those tenants that are not licensed for the standard.
Aligned Count
The number of tenants counted as aligned, which covers Compliant, Accepted Deviation, and Customer Specific.
Compliant Count
The number of tenants that are compliant.
Non Compliant Count
The number of tenants that are non-compliant.
License Missing Count
The number of tenants that lack the licensing for the standard.
Accepted Deviation Count
The number of tenants with an accepted deviation from the standard.
Filters are available for Fully Compliant, Has Non-Compliant, License Missing, and Accepted Deviation.
Table Actions
More Info
Opens the Extended Info flyout with the full details for the selected row.
Selecting a row opens the Standard Tenant Summary flyout, which lists the tenants the standard applies to and can be filtered to show only the compliant or only the non-compliant ones.
Known Issues
There is currently a limitation with Conditional Access classic standards due to the complexity of comparing the standard settings against the Conditional Access response object. We hope to resolve this in a future update.
Feature Requests / Ideas
We value your feedback and ideas. Please raise any feature requests on GitHub.
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