Managing Shared Machines in Intune without Designated Licensed Users
Question
Hi All,
How is everyone using Intune to manage shared machines without a designated licensed user associated? Are they using a shared account and enrolling via GPO to bypass the device limit restriction? Sorry, I’m still somewhat new to Intune and its best practices. I have used Intune for managing a remote workforce, but I want to scale up and better utilize the platform.
Posted by JR Hoffman in HTMD FB Group
Answer ( 1 )
Replied by Greg Gilbert
Use Autopilot self-deploying profiles, and it automatically becomes a shared PC with no primary user. This also makes it very simple to reset remotely. If it’s on a wired network, you don’t even have to touch it after reset until it gets back to the logon screen.
Replied by Dennis Wallman
Create a DEM account, enrol with it, remove it as the primary user (this tells Intune the device is shared), and assign the shared device policy that helps with disk cleanup and other good-to-have bits.
Replied by Seb Free
There is a device license option too.
Replied by Dave Jacobs
I had this with Nuc devices, which had stock rom on it with Windows IoT on it. Only local users on the device, one admin user, and one user who automatically launched as a regular user. I used the wand tool to create a provisioning package (Ppkg file) and used that file to enrol the device in Intune. Works perfectly. In order to have it licensed properly, you have to buy a device license. This should get you going https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/enrollment/windows-bulk-enrol https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/fundamentals/licenses