Hi, To try and make a long story short, I have 2 devices, Device 1 one belonged to me and Device 2 belonged to someone previously. I had taken Device 2 because the specs we're better and am giving Device 1 to a new-hire. My initial thought was to delete Device 1 and just re-add it to Azure AD under the new owner. After I had done that I came across an extremely simple PowerShell cmdlet that made adding a new owner and removing the old owner very fast and painless. I used this cmdlet to add me as the new owner of Device 2 but had already deleted Device 1. I'm now stuck trying to figure out how to get Device 1 back into AD and change the owner. How can I do this?Thanks

I was able to resolve this using the following steps:For Azure AD joined devices Windows 10 devices, take the following steps:Open the command prompt as an administratorEnter dsregcmd /forcerecovery (You need to be an administrator to perform this action).Click “Sign in” in the dialog that opens up and continue with the sign in process.Sign out and sign in back to the device to complete the recovery.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/faqJust for good measure I gave user temporarly administrator priviledges & followed the steps initially to remove the devicee.g.1) dsregcmd /debug /leave2) Reboot3) Add user to local-admins4) Log-off & on again5) dsregcmd /forcerecovery (I was unable to use the GUI, it did not “work” e.g. no sign-in screen showed.) I used this for: https://www.technipages.com/fix-office-365-error-70003-your-organization-has-deleted-this-device?unapproved=1033343&moderation-hash=4c1bd2119308ea6ec3a95df729a416f5#comment-1033343 It might resolve your issue aswell

I deleted the device from my AzureAD and wanted the new named device to show here and the above solution worked for me. thank you.

I had a similar problem with a computer where the device had been deleted on AzureAD by mistake. Found using "dsregcmd /forcerecovery" worked for me.Was a few seconds away from resetting the PC as nothing else had worked when I spotted this suggestion. Saved me a lot of time and have made a note of the command in case it occurs on another device.

Dutch2005nl This saved me. I accidentally deleted a device from the admin portal and my employee could not recieve emails. The "dsregcmd /forcerecovery" wouldn't launch until the user was set up as an admin, and on a fresh restart. We are up and running now. Thank you!!!

How to recover or re-add device | Microsoft Community Hub

12 Replies

Moe_Kinani
Bronze Contributor
Mar 25, 2020
Hi Luke,

I have been in the same boat sometime ago. Recycle bin is not yet supported and you can’t recover deleted devices, it’s a feature that MSFT working on.

All the devices stays on soft delete for 30 days, I know because when I delete a device from Azure AD, It stays in PowerBI report for 30 days.

Have you tried the ps below to add the device manually?

PS C:\>New-AzureADDevice -AccountEnabled $true -DisplayName "My new device" -DeviceId $guid -DeviceOSType "OS" -DeviceOSVersion "1.1"

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/169401-azure-active-directory/suggestions/32127307-recycle-bin-for-deleted-devices
- pnoorder60
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 11, 2024
  Moe_Kinani
  I needed to use the "Remote" solution that you have mentioned here. I was remote from the concerned Laptop.
  Your example helped me on the way, but had several questions on the Object details.
  New-AzureADDevice -AccountEnabled $true -DisplayName "My new device" -DeviceId $guid -DeviceOSType "OS" -DeviceOSVersion "1.1"
  
  For me, the hardest -Object (Like many others) was the mandatory -AlternativeSecurityIds $altsecids
  So I added:
  $key = [System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes("X509:<SHA1-TP-PUBKEY><Thumbprint>")
  $altsecids = [PSCustomObject]@{key=$key;type='2'}
  
  I also used OSType "Windows" and got a version number from another device. That did the trick and like magic the Laptop was able to login again via the original domein UserID. I'm not sure anymore where I have found all the pieces of this puzzle, but this worked form me.
- Luke_Pulis
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 25, 2020
  Hi, Moe_Kinani
  From looking at the command I assume this makes a spare device on AD to which I can then add the device to the already existing user?
  - Moe_Kinani
    Bronze Contributor
    Mar 25, 2020
    Correct.
    
    It’s the only workaround in your situation.

Forum Discussion

How to recover or re-add device

12 Replies

Resources