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How to Seamless Transition from Local Active Directory to Microsoft Intune?
Our organization currently operates with a Local Active Directory (AD) setup, using Azure AD Connect to sync directories with Azure Entra. All organizational devices are domain-joined and managed via Local AD. We are planning to transition device management to Microsoft Intune while ensuring a seamless process with no user intervention and no loss of user data.
What are the industry best practices for achieving this transition?
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If you are only looking to manage the devices using Intune then enabling hybrid join in Entra connect and automatic enrolment into Intune using GPO is the way to go. If you are looking to cloud native for device identity, then I am afraid there is no direct migration path. Devices will need be reset and then provisioned using Autopilot as Entra ID. Normally the recommendation is to Hybrid join existing devices and Entra ID join new devices and slowly move towards cloud native.
We have gone through the same requirement for ~20K user device migration to Entra join for one of our customer. We have tested multiple migration tools and finally identified Quest and Opsole Magrate are the best tools.
As Quest is an agent based tool, we finally decided to move with https://opsole.com/. This tool can migrate the device without re-image the devices and will preserve all user profile, outlook settings and local data.
Their support was great and helped us to fine tune the migration settings and Intune configurations.
Completed the successful migration on timeImUzair If it is just the devices that you want to manage, then hybrid join the devices and enroll the devices in Intune. You will obviously need to setup you Intune for management. If it is Entra ID identity you seek, then there is no migration path. The recommended way is to reset the devices and provision them using Autopilot.
