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mikhailf
Steel Contributor
May 13, 2022

MarcoMangianteIM 

Hello Marco,

It is expected behavior. When you added a device for the first time, it was registered. Then you reconfigure it and it becomes Azure Hybrid AD Joined. AAD sees this device as a new with a new ObjectID (DeviceID) in Azure. Because of that ObjectID (DeviceID), you see two devices with the same name.
You have "Columns" in the upper panel. Click on it and look for "Last Activity" or "Last Check-in" thereby you will be able to see what devices are in use and what are not in use. I assume that registered devices will be not in use. When you ensured that the registered devices are not in use (Not connecting to AAD) you can remove them.
I removed Registered devices several times and didn't have any issues with them. You can check this article to find out more about Registered to Hybrid Azure AD Joined change. Handling devices with Azure AD registered state

"Any existing Azure AD registered state for a user would be automatically removed after the device is hybrid Azure AD joined and the same user logs in."

 

I hope this helps you. 

It is good that it's a lab environment. You can try everything 🙂 

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MarcoMangianteIM
Brass Contributor
May 13, 2022

Helllo mikhailf 

thanks for you reply. I read that article when I started my experiments and interpreted that word as an automatic cancellation of the device, after some time, from the list; I say this because in my first lab I obtained this result, but the difference is that in my first iteration I synced the OU with computers at the start with the others data and object and also checked the password hash sync option, but I suppose this is not relevant for the devices.

From what I've see, the Registered and Activity colums have, for the Azure AD Registered devices, the date when I created the devices for my test and installed the apps for Office (and Teams), while the hybrid counterpart has the date of ingestion; I noticed 2 things: the ingestion was 6 May andd from that date I can't see any update date, while I accessed the devices and also if, as I said in my previous post, if I disable my Azure AD Registered device, I can't use Office apps; I've done the command dsregcmd /status but it seems that I have no error.

 

What I expected was that the Azure AD Registered devices disappeared automaticallly, or, like in your case, I have the possibility do delete them without any issue.

 

Thanks.