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Copper Contributor

Mar 12, 2025

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Onboarding Devices

Hello, I have a question regarding our Business Premium license. I connected three test devices to Intune, but since these users use BYOD (Windows 11 Home), I did not connect them to Azure AD. I am...

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mobile device management (mdm)

GenesisHash
Mar 18, 2025
Hello Yousef,

Onboarding Windows home is not supported. The devices need to be running at least Windows 10 Pro. See here for more information https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/minimum-requirements?view=o365-worldwide#hardware-and-software-requirements.

Djamel

Copper Contributor

Mar 19, 2025

I think you must have devices joined to Azure AD for onboarding automatically in Defender for Endpoind.

Could you also test onboarding Manually with script.

Yousef_Safiran

Copper Contributor

Mar 20, 2025

Thank you so much

so, in this case, BYOD, without joining them to Azure AD, can not become onboard devices?

i think also there is a problem with Windows Home, which doesn't have an option to join users Via Azure AD

GenesisHash
Brass Contributor
Mar 25, 2025
Hi Yousef

You can role out Defender using the manual onboarding script to the BYOD devices running Windows Home.
if you wish for BYOD devices to join via AAD they need to be at least Windows 10/11 pro.