Templates

Understanding Standards

This page is a reference to the features of the Standards Templates page in CIPP. To better understand Standards and Drift Management, please see the main page for Standards & Drift.

Available Standards

Please see Available Standards for a list of standards you can configure for your tenants.

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Page Layout

Action Buttons

Add Template and Create Drift Template will open the Add Standards Template with the settings available for the respective template type.

Table Details

Column	Description
Template Name	The name you set when creating the template
Tenant	The tenant or tenants the standard is created for
Excluded Tenants	The tenant or tenants excluded from AllTenants standards
Run Manually	A Boolean field indicating if the template is set to only be run manually. This displays as false (X in circle) if the template runs on the schedule and a true (✔️) if this template will only run manually.
Created At	Relative time since the template was created
Updated At	Relative time since the template was updated
GUID	The GUID for the template

Table Actions

Action	Description	Bulk Action Available
View Tenant Report	This will open a CIPP created report that compares the standards template to the settings discovered for the tenant currently selected in the drop down
Edit Template	Opens the template configuration page
Clone & Edit Template	Copies the existing template and lets you make changes before saving as a new template
Run Template Now	Opens a modal to select the tenant(s) you want to run the standard against. The drop down will only show tenants and groups assigned to the template.
Save to GitHub	Saves the selected template(s) to your selected GitHub repository
Delete Template	Deletes the template

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Feature Requests / Ideas

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