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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to enable device enrollment in Microsoft Intune and enroll a Windows 10 PC.
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Microsoft Intune is a lightweight cloud-based PC and mobile device management product that uses Mobile Device Management (MDM), a set of standards for managing mobile devices, instead of Active Directory (AD) Group Policy, which is a Windows-only technology. For more information about Intune, see Introduction to Microsoft Intune on the Petri IT Knowledgebase.
Windows 10 PCs connect with Azure Active Directory and are then automatically enrolled in Intune. Before you can complete the instructions below, you will need both a trial Intune account and Azure Active Directory (Premium) subscription. Although the accounts are free for the trial period, credit card details are required to sign up for Azure AD Premium. I recommend creating an Intune account first, and then using the same account details to create an Azure AD Premium subscription. This will ensure that the Azure AD Directory is associated with your Intune subscription.
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The first step is to assign at least one user an Intune license. Licensing is managed from the Office 365 management portal.
Assign an Intune license to a user (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
In the list of users, make sure that one of them has Intune A Direct listed in the status column. This might be the admin user for your Intune subscription or another user.
Assign an Intune license to a user (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
To ensure that devices are automatically enrolled with Intune when they join Azure AD, you must configure MDM auto-enrollment for the directory.
Configure MDM Auto-enrollment in Azure AD (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Configure MDM Autoenrollment in Azure AD (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
In a production environment, you’re more likely want to control which devices are managed using Intune with Azure AD groups.
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The next step is to enable specific device platforms that can enroll in Intune. This is done from the Intune management portal.
Enable Windows 10 Device Enrollment (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Now that MDM is set up for Windows devices in Intune, you can connect a Windows 10 device to Azure AD and it will automatically be enrolled to Intune.
Enroll a Windows 10 Device (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Enroll a Windows 10 Device (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
In this article, I showed you how to set up automatic device enrollment in Microsoft Intune, and how to enroll and Windows 10 device.
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