intune liense requirement / MS365

Question

Hello everyone,
I have a slight problem understanding whether I need a separate Intune license or not for my scenario:

• Company of 10 users-
• Licenses: Microsoft 365 Standard for most users, E3 for one user
• I am the only Global Admin
• I am the only person managing / installing / maintaining user computers, users are standard non-admin users
• Devices (Windows 10 laptops) are enrolled as Azure AD joined machines
• I do not need standard users to enroll their devices on their own as I do it for them
• I am not using Autopilot, or Conditional Access policies, the only policies I need to use are Configuration policies (i.e. to configure some Windows "GPO" settings, Onedrive, etc.)
• I am able to use Endpoint Manager, set policies, and propagate them, etc.

My question:
Do I still need to buy a separate Intune license for this scenario and assign it to the user?

Thanks
Michael

Answer 1

@Michael Novak Thanks for your update.

For MDM is "Office 365 Mobile", it means the device is managed by office 365. It is needed to switch to intune. We can refer to the following article to switch. On the next MDM check-in, MDM will switch to intune.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/fundamentals/mdm-authority-set#set-mdm-authority-to-intune

For MDM is "None", it means the devices just join in Azure AD. It is needed to get intune license and delete the device in Azure AD poral. Then re-enroll the device.

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Answer 2

We have a tenant in which we migrated all devices to Microsoft Intune. But for some reason, inside Azure AD devices keep showing up as Office 365 Mobile instead of Intune. When looking inside Intune we do see these devices, but why are they not showing up as such in Azure AD?

Answer 3

Thank you very much for your explanation. It was indeed helpful. I have a very minor question - the device / user with Intune license assigned has device ownership as "Uknown" and I am unable to change it.

Thanks

Answer 4

MDM value on devices with users having Business Standard license says "None", interestingly enough, MDM value on device of the user with Intune license (other user) has value of "Office 365 Mobile". Is this Basic Mobility and Security?

There is an option to switch to Intune, but I would like to keep testing this on one device only for now, and keep using Basic MDM for other users.

Is it OK to switch this?

Thanks

Answer 5

@Michael Novak Could you please check if the device's MDM shows "intune" in Azure AD portal? If MDM is not intune, it means the device is not managed by intune.