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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...
rahuljindal-MVP Seems people are discussing several different scenarios in this thread. Our specific use case however is migrating from another MDM to Intune. When users' devices are deregistered from the old MDM their accounts are converted to local accounts on the machine.
As for a general reason you may want to allow users to have local admin accounts, small company with large proportion of developers who you want to allow some flexibility when it comes to the tools they use
How are you migrating? As for the elevation of rights, there are multiple ways to address it. A couple of options that comes to my mind are Windows LAPS, EPM, Device admins based leveraging Entra ID roles + PIM, Account protection policies.
