Support Tip: Reduce your helpdesk costs for device password reset with Intune Company Portal Website
Published Nov 30 2018 01:17 PM 46.5K Views

Want to reduce support tickets? We recently heard from a couple of customers that they weren’t aware you can have your end users reset their own enrolled device passwords through the Intune Company Portal Website at https://portal.manage.microsoft.com/ or through the Company Portal app. In this post, we walk through a few more details.

 

The Intune Company Portal Website allows an end user, after authenticating, to:

  • Remotely lock their devices
  • Rename their device
  • Remove their device
  • Reset their device password
  • Reset and erase their device

 

End users can take these actions on personally-owned MDM-enrolled devices. When an end-user logs in with their corporate credentials (if needed) at https://portal.manage.microsoft.com/ they will see these options as shown in the screenshot below, including the reset device passcode option.

 

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This is a useful feature if your end user forgets their enrolled device password, or if they lose a device and want to reset it. A few additional notes:

  • You can’t use this approach to reset a password if you use MFA requiring the Microsoft Authenticator app on the device that’s locked.
  • For iOS if you use DEP or have a supervised device, then just an IT Admin or helpdesk with the proper authorization can reset passwords for these specific types of devices that are enrolled.
  • Each platform (iOS, Android, Windows) has different terms of use and legal language that you can customize to a certain extent based on the platform, which is helpful particularly for reset/etc. You can read more about that here: https://docs.microsoft.com/intune/terms-and-conditions-create.

 

Be sure to share this with your helpdesk! There’s documentation on this feature here: https://docs.microsoft.com/intune-user-help/using-the-intune-company-portal-website

 

Updates
12/3/18 - Updated with the right service name for Microsoft Authenticator (we'd called it Azure Authentication app).

 

4 Comments
Copper Contributor

Hello,

 

Good feature in terms of End user self service password reset. But the challenge is , Reset password option is grayed out for Android 7.0 & above OS. Is there any configuration setting that needs to be relaxed ?

Ramesh - found a good dialog here that explains what's going on: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/638a2c21-6e48-4f85-8efe-33801b54ef5f/passcode-rese... 

Brass Contributor

Hello, 

 

Can someone explain to me why on earth a user should be able to delete their company owned device?

This makes companies lose track of there devices?

 

Thank you 

@WietseD we call out in the article that "End users can take these actions on personally-owned MDM-enrolled devices." If you are using corporate owned devices such as iOS DEP or have a supervised device, then this won't work. Hope this helps!

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