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Intune License for Device Enrollment Manager accounts
Hi,
A good practice would be to create a dedicated user and assign an Intune license to this user. Then assign the Device Enrollment Role to it. This allows you to enroll up to 1000 devices.
If you have Azure AD Joined devices, they are already enrolled in Intune (Endpoint Manager). You maybe need to configure the proper settings first (Autoenrollment, DNS). But it requires Azure AD P1.
Also have a look at the device enrollment restriction policies. They do not apply to Device Enrollment Managers for Windows:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/enrollment/enrollment-restrictions-set#create-a-device-limit-restriction
Each user who is using Intune (Apps, Profiles, Policies, etc) needs a license.
If you have shared devices, Kiosk or Signage for example, you can use "Intune Device-only" licenses. This licenses do not need to be assigned to any device or user.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Al
Hi Thijs Lecomte ,
Thanks for your information.
The business has an AAD but not any AD, so I would say it requires only AzureAD-joined devices. Also, around 100 workstations already AAD-joined and it is looking for a Device Management solution so I would suggest Intune.
I found this information from Microsoft: If a device is used by more than one user, each requires a device software license or all users require a user software license. (URL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/fundamentals/licenses-assign)
I tried to save cost by using user-based license as it can be used for up to 15 devices and to minimise the management, I would use a DEM to join all devices (I may misunderstand about the purpose of DEM). Everything seems ok except the licensing, e.g., with 1,000 joined devices, how the license will be allocated if we use user-based approach?
Any advice are more than welcome!
Cheers,
For licensing (Let me start off by saying that I am no expert), but every user that uses a device that is managed by Intune, should also be licensed for Intune
Thanks Thijs Lecomte,
I will wait for more advice and also test how the license works. Will share here later on.
Cheers,
Hi,
A good practice would be to create a dedicated user and assign an Intune license to this user. Then assign the Device Enrollment Role to it. This allows you to enroll up to 1000 devices.
If you have Azure AD Joined devices, they are already enrolled in Intune (Endpoint Manager). You maybe need to configure the proper settings first (Autoenrollment, DNS). But it requires Azure AD P1.
Also have a look at the device enrollment restriction policies. They do not apply to Device Enrollment Managers for Windows:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/enrollment/enrollment-restrictions-set#create-a-device-limit-restriction
Each user who is using Intune (Apps, Profiles, Policies, etc) needs a license.
If you have shared devices, Kiosk or Signage for example, you can use "Intune Device-only" licenses. This licenses do not need to be assigned to any device or user.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Al
alschneiter does device need be logged in using the DEM account after the enrollment or can it the local admin stay logged in? I am testing a scenario where I am using DEM just for the enrollment and management of device, but not switch user. This is to accommodate for an already running kisosk based application on the device. However, my concern here is that this may break the update rings as the enrolling user will never log in on the device.
