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My company uses Intune in a Hybrid Environment and we are trying to setup AutoPilot and deploy machines so that they sync with Active Directory and are trusted with either their Azure AD credentials or their AD credentials, plus have the computer name that is associated in AD be able to sync with Azure AD the ESP process during initialization, or after the fact and change it after the computer is finished and is ready to be deployed. As the computer is in Azure AD at this point, I am unable to change the computer name at all from Control Panel because it sees that the computer is already connected to Azure AD, if I were to change the computer name in the Office 365 Admin Center would this allow the name to be changed in both Azure and Active Directory so that the computer is both trusted and either user name would work? In AD they connect with First Initial Last Name, and in Azure AD they connect with First Initial Last ******@companyname.com
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Hello, renaming computers in Hybrid environment is not supported by Intune. You will have to remove the device from Hybrid Azure AD join, rename it and join it again.
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So with Intune/AutoPilot in a Hybrid Environment, this is the only way for Group Policy to continue to be pushed down to the devices, but removing from Hybrid Azure Ad , renaming and joining again? Currently, I built the machine with a local user name, rename it and add it to the domain, and then once the machine has rebooted and has joined, I open Settings/Accounts and Enroll the device, which is working. I was just trying to remove a few additional steps, but it does not seem like it is possible.
Thanks for the quick response.
You're welcome!