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I think one of the biggest challenges today we are seeing is clients who have tons of existing devices and they want to onboard them and make them Entra-ID Joined and Intune Managed, but its challenging without IT intervention, registering the hardware hash, run them through Reset process, etc... Having an end-user to go through is very impactful and wont really work for most clients. Is there any possible plans to somehow automate this process through Windows Autopilot where say users go through some basic steps and then device kicks into Autopilot mode, goes through OOBE, etc... Just curious if this would ever be considered! Thank you in advance!
Jason_Sandys
Microsoft
MicrosoftMany things are possible, however, our current guidance is to not convert existing device from hybrid joined to Entra joined and instead wait for some "natural" event like a device refresh or troubleshooting reset to move these existing devices to Entra joined. Is there a specific reason why this guidance isn't applicable or desirable for your scenario?
- I mean in the cases we've seen, the devices aren't even Hybrid Entra-ID joined, they are strictly AD Domain joined and you nailed when you said "natural" event and most clients end up going that route where they go full-on Entra ID Joined and go through Windows Autopilot for net-new devices, its more the case of clients who don't have that natural event per se and want to take their Domain Joined only devices and make them Entra-ID joined (which works for one-off cases), but if they want to do at scale across all their devices which aren't Intune managed today and not joined to Entra ID, they don't have a full streamlined way of doing it. Appreciate the feedback on this Jason, very helpful!
- Jason_SandysFor that scenario (existing devices), we suggest moving to hybrid joined in the interim until that natural/opportunistic event takes place.
- I mean in the cases we've seen, the devices aren't even Hybrid Entra-ID joined, they are strictly AD Domain joined and you nailed when you said "natural" event and most clients end up going that route where they go full-on Entra ID Joined and go through Windows Autopilot for net-new devices, its more the case of clients who don't have that natural event per se and want to take their Domain Joined only devices and make them Entra-ID joined (which works for one-off cases), but if they want to do at scale across all their devices which aren't Intune managed today and not joined to Entra ID, they don't have a full streamlined way of doing it. Appreciate the feedback on this Jason, very helpful!