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ASR Rules: Audit-to-Block Rollout with Intune (2026)
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The precedence rules Microsoft actually documents, the two vocabularies, the latency table, and a seven-step workflow that names the cause instead of guessing.
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No header names the rule that fired. One report does, and it is the least convenient one Microsoft publishes. Seven phases from report to root cause.The paid ESU bridge ends in October and SE CU2 blocks coexistence. The hybrid exit: Management Tools with no server, SOA, and the warning you cannot undo.
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A policy retains a container. A label retains an item. A record is a checkbox that cannot be unticked. Picking the wrong one is usually irreversible.
Standard and Strict differ in six settings. Three whole policy types are identical. The decision is about who reviews quarantine, not about how strict you feel.