How to Enroll existing Microsoft Entra ID joined devices in to Intune ?

Question

We currently have over 500 devices Entra ID joined device. Most of these devices have the same owner due to they are usually joined by one of three people that build the new computers or replacement computers. A majority of the computers are also located remotely. All the computers are Windows 11 none of the users have admin privileges.

I have been doing research to do automatic enrollment but I am trying to find out if the owner of the computer will need to be changed to the user of the compute since the user has the license assigned to them?

I have found and modified a powershell script to change the owners to the correct person.

If the owner is changed to the correct person with the license assigned and automatic enrollment is setup would the computers enroll into Intune or would there be any other steps that need to be done on the company's side?

Also I am not an a system admin or any other type of administrator just an analyst that got this project thrown into his lap and is looking for some very easy instructions or advice.

Answer 1

@AdamChristman-3441, Thanks for posting in Q&A. For your question, I would like to say yes, the owner of the computer will need to be changed to the user of the computer which has both Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra Premier license assigned.

Also, automatic enrollment is needed to configured for these users. We can set MDM user scope as All or some which include all these users.

After that, we can use the script mentioned in the following link to trigger the enrollment. As a note, this needs admin permission and the script needs to be run under system context.

https://call4cloud.nl/enroll-existing-entra-azure-intune/

Note: none-Microsoft link, just for the reference.

For new devices, you can consider Autopilot enrollment. Or if these existing device accept to reset, they can also use Autopilot as a good option to enroll into Intune.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/autopilot/tutorial/user-driven/azure-ad-join-workflow

Hope the above information can help.

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