Change device's actual owner on Azure

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Change device's actual owner on Azure

Edwin Blanco 1

Does anyone know how to change or update the owner of a device on Azure? Recently navigating on Azure's devices for my site observed several of these devices showed an owner not reflecting the actual one and want to make corrections to this. Please advise... Thanks!!!

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Hi @Edwin Blanco , thank you for your question. My colleague Amanpreet answered this question in this thread. I'll repost it here, but please let me know if you have any questions!

In order to change the device owner, you would need to first add another owner to the device and then remove the existing user. There is no single PowerShell command to change the owner. I am sharing the cmdlets below:

Open PowerShell as Administrator and run Install-module AzureADPreview. If you have this module installed already, you can skip this step.
Login to Azure AD with your Global Admin account by using Connect-AzureAD cmdlet.
Run Get-AzureADDevice -All $true | Where-Object {$_.DeviceTrustType -eq "AzureAd"} to get object ID of all Azure AD joined devices in your tenant.
Run Add-AzureADDeviceRegisteredOwner -ObjectId 94b0b212-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx -RefObjectId 86757ad2-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. Where, -ObjectId is to specify the object id of the device and -RefObjectId is to specify the object ID of the user you want to add as registered owner.
Run Remove-AzureADDeviceRegisteredOwner -ObjectId 94b0b212-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx -OwnerId 540b9c12-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. Where, -OwnerId is to specify the object ID of the previous owner that you want to remove.
To confirm the new registered owner, run Get-AzureADDeviceRegisteredOwner -ObjectId 94b0b212-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx or login to Azure Portal and navigate to Azure AD > Devices > All devices.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

If this answer helped you please mark it as "Verified" so other users can reference it.

Thank you,
James

Galen Swint 0 Reputation points

2023-10-24T19:42:59.2+00:00

Is there a way to do this in the device portal? I don't have so many devices and the device portal is where I'm likely to see the owner-user mis-matches.
Konstantinos Lianos 125 Reputation points Student Ambassador

2024-06-14T10:12:21.88+00:00

Hello James,

Thank you very much for your help.

It solves my issues.
Joe Bulger 0 Reputation points

2025-03-05T15:29:12.2233333+00:00

The one thing I had to add is to run Get-AzureADDeviceRegisteredOwner -ObjectId xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx with the Object ID of the device you want to copy the owner from first to get the Object ID of the new owner between steps 3 and 4 if you don't have it already. Once I did that, this worked. Of course, this only works if the new owner is already the owner of another device. What's the best way to get the new owner's ObjectId in other cases?

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