How to remove AAD users as local admins

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How to remove AAD users as local admins

Bhaskar Sharma 20

Hi,
All our devices have AAD accounts added as local admins. How can I remove all these users as admins via intune
I have the following setup in endpoint security >
User groups > remove > added all AAD users

assignment
assigned to all devices.

This shows as succeeded in report but users are still added as local admins
Thank you

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2023-08-07T21:08:47.26+00:00

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Lu Dai-MSFT 28,516

@Bhaskar Sharma Thanks for posting in our Q&A.

For this issue, I have done the test in my lab. It works well. I will share you some information.

In my test, I want to remove "AzureAD\test2" in the administrator group and I deploy this profile to my device group. Here is my configuration:

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After this profile shows successful deployment, I restart the target device and the I find that "AzureAD\test2" is removed successfully.

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2023-08-07T02:02:46.8166667+00:00

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Bhaskar Sharma 20 Reputation points

2023-08-10T19:56:38.45+00:00

@Rudy Ooms Thanks for the blog. It seems like its just a bit slow as I can slowly see devices removing azure ad accounts as local admins. Ill wait and keep checking but for now it works.
Thank you

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kam 0

I had the same issue. If you have your users do a reboot are they still local admins?

Answer 3

Rudy Ooms 726 MVP

Multiple options.... I have written a couple of blogs about this topic

https://call4cloud.nl/2021/04/dude-wheres-my-admin/

IN that blog I am also mentioning the possiblity to remove local admins with a powershell script

https://call4cloud.nl/2020/03/remove-all-local-admins/

Bhaskar Sharma 20 Reputation points

2023-08-10T19:56:33.3466667+00:00

@Rudy Ooms Thanks for the blog. It seems like its just a bit slow as I can slowly see devices removing azure ad accounts as local admins. Ill wait and keep checking but for now it works.
Thank you

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