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Is there any way to migrate an existing ‘Entra hybrid joined’ device to ‘Entra joined’ without having to reset the device?
Autopilot is suitable for new devices or devices that need to be reconfigured for some reason, but having to reset all the company’s devices just to make them cloud-native is madness.
- Jason_Sandys
Microsoft
Why do you need them to be Entra-joined overnight? What's forcing this or why is this a requirement? Or, asked another way, why is waiting for them to be replaced by the hardware refresh cycle not acceptable?
Hi Jason, hardware refresh is fine, and that is what we will do, any new PC, or any PC that needs to be reset for any reason, will be set up on Entra straight away.
If we had a migration method, we wouldn’t have to wait – in our case, four years – for all devices to be on Entra, thereby avoiding having two "types" of PCs.
It also affects our plans to phase out the local infrastructure, as we’ll have to keep AD running for longer.
- Jason_Sandys
Do you really have a near term goal of getting rid of on-prem AD and is Entra join really the critical path item?
Define "two types" of PCs and why this is so problematic? Everyone has to be (re-)trained no matter what. Also, even with some magic wand, won't you have some interoperability period no matter what? Is this truly that significant? Additionally, if you are fully ready for cloud-native and moved user data to OneDrive, implemented Windows Backup, and moved your apps to Intune, is resetting an existing device truly that big of a deal?
Happy to discuss more and would love to have some concrete data points from folks on these.
No path from Hybrid to Entra join that Microsoft provides or supports, but there are third-party/community tools available that many of us use and have had success with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tijnTNRif98
https://powersyncpro.com/
And I agree that nuking your endpoint to make it cloud-native is in fact madness. Are you listening Microsoft?
Thanks JoeITGuy for your comments.
I already know Rubix, and I can say that it works. I tested it some time ago and all test migrations worked fine. It's a pity that it is an unsupported process.
BTW... what do you mean with "Are you listening Microsoft?" ?
