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Louis_H440
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Sep 21, 2023

Linking local admin account to Intune / AD

Hello,    We are in the process of setting up Intune for our organisation and are working on designing the process for enrolling each user's device. Currently, each users' account is set up as a lo...
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Abdullah_Ollivierre
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Sep 26, 2023
so the process of Azure AD connect works only from on-premises to cloud. Whilst it is capable of things like password write back and device writeback, you cannot create users in Azure AD and sync them back to on-premises AD
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LeonPavesic
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Sep 26, 2023

Hi Abdullah_Ollivierre and Louis_H440,

Abdullah_Ollivierre  you are right, there is no way to link an existing local admin account to an AD account in Intune without using a third-party solution, unless you have an on-premises Active Directory environment and you can use Azure AD Connect to synchronize the local admin account to Azure AD (on-prem to cloud)

If you do not have an on-premises Active Directory environment, or if you do not want to use Azure AD Connect, then you will need to use a third-party tool to link the local admin account to the AD account.

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