Azure Intune device property management

Question

Hello everyone,

I have been struggling through this a bit but hopefully one of you can help. I am new to Azure, 2 weeks experience, so I apologize if my question seems rudimentary.

I am trying to take the list of devices we have in Intune (downloaded into a CSV) and change the information in the "Management Name" field to some unique identifiers that we determine, preferably with Powershell as we have several hundred devices and counting.

Example of what I'm referring to: a device has the management name johnsmith_Windows_1/1/1999_12:00 AM but we want to switch it to ABCD_serialnumber.

Each current and future name is unique. How can this be accomplished?

I have had success connecting to Azure and changing some attributes based on the ObjectID as a test but those were individual devices and none of the parameters available allow manipulation of the Management Name. Is there a module that I need? I installed AzAccounts and AzureAD but I may have missed an important module still. Many thanks for any help I receive.

Answer 1

@Dakota Sherman, Thanks for posting in Q&A. To change Intune device "Management Name" field, we can use "Update-IntuneManagedDevice". Here are the steps I test in my lab for your reference:

1. Export the device information from Intune portal and keep the devices I want to change and rename it as devices.csv
2. Run the following script to change the device "Management Name"

Connect-MsGraph

# Read in CSV file of device information
$devices = Import-Csv -Path "C:\test\devices.csv"

# Loop through each device and set the DisplayName property
foreach ($device in $devices) {
    $deviceId = $device.'Device ID'
    $newDisplayName = "ABCD_" + $device.'Serial number'
    Update-IntuneManagedDevice -managedDeviceId $deviceId -managedDeviceName $newDisplayName
  }

3, Enter the global administrator account to access Intune graph.

4, After the script run, check in Intune portal and find it is changed.

Hope the above information can help.

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