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Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification and Beyond
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With Microsoft Entra Join, you can join devices directly to Microsoft Entra without the need to join your on-premises Active Directory in a hybrid environment. While Microsoft Entra hybrid join with an on-premises Active Directory might still be preferred for some scenarios, Microsoft Entra Join simplifies the process of adding devices and modernizes device management for your organization. This can result in the reduction of device-related IT costs.
Your users may have access to corporate assets through their devices. To protect these corporate assets, you want to control these devices. This allows your administrators to ensure that your users are accessing resources from devices that meet your standards for security and compliance.
Microsoft Entra Join is a good solution when you want to manage devices with a cloud device management solution, when you want to modernize your application infrastructure, when you want to simplify device provisioning for geographically distributed users, and when your company adopts Microsoft 365 as the productivity suite for your users.
Microsoft Entra Join can be employed through any of the following methods:
When it comes to joining devices to Entra ID, there are two main ways of managing them:
When joining a Windows 10 device to Microsoft Entra, there are two scenarios that you need to look at:
To follow this exercise, you will require either a virtual machine or a physical machine that has Windows 10 Pro installed and access to the internet.
You will now join an existing Windows 10 device to Microsoft Entra, as follows:
Settings
and open Accounts
.Access work or school
, and then click Connect
:Figure 2.23: The Windows 10 settings menu to add and connect a device
Join this device to Microsoft
Entra ID
.
Figure 2.24: Selecting Join this Device to Microsoft Entra ID
Sign in
window that pops up, enter your user principal name (UPN) (usually the email address of the user account you created earlier in the chapter). For this exercise, use the demouser1
account created previously. Click Next
.Figure 2.25: Signing into Microsoft Entra
Join
.Figure 2.26: Confirming your organization details
Done
.Figure 2.27: A confirmation message for Microsoft Entra Join
Access work or school
settings window, you will see that you are now joined to your organization. This will show something similar to the following screenshot with the connected organization. Note that the Entra ID wording will soon change to reflect Microsoft Entra.Figure 2.28: Your connected organization on Microsoft Entra
Devices
blade for Microsoft Entra ID. Select All devices
from the left menu, and you will then see your newly joined device appear:Figure 2.29: Displaying the recently joined Windows 10 devices
That brings an end to this section. You have learned what Microsoft Entra join is and the methods used to enroll, and you have also walked through the steps to manually join a Windows 10 device to Microsoft Entra.
Note
You are encouraged to read further by using the following links, which will provide additional information about Microsoft Entra Join, Windows Autopilot, and bulk device enrollment:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/devices/concept-directory-join
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/autopilot/windows-autopilot
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/enrollment/windows-bulk-enroll
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/devices/device-join-out-of-box
Next, we will look at what bulk operations are and how to perform them.