Installing inune connector in ADconnect server

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Installing inune connector in ADconnect server

Prasant Chettri 1

Installing Intune connector in existing ADconnect server -

This post recommends that we should not install Intune connector ODJconnectXXX on same server as ADconnect server.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9abe6b51-418f-43a5-86da-76c2f5f0f967/intune-ad-connector?forum=microsoftintuneprod

To Microsft CSE recommended same but when I called support to fix issues with Intune. Unified support person said the reason it is not working is because I installed it in the same server. She said she 100% sure about it and confirmed with her team members too. I suggested this goes against the previous recommendation and also told the event error log is related that to one of the DC I shut down to plan for decom and all roles has already been moved to new server.

She was adamant not to support the case until I remove it from new server and install in on ADconnect server which I did my Azure hybrid connect still does not wok. Now we are still going through log after logs to troubleshoot hybrid join issue.

Even if we fix the issue, I do not want set this up incorrectly and have problem later, if ODJconnect is not supposed to be installed on same server as ADconnect then I still have time to restore ADconnect from snapshot to the same state last week.

Is there a KB article to back this post so I could bring this up on next call?

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Vipul Sparsh 16,336 Microsoft Employee Moderator

@Prasant Chettri Thanks for reaching out. There is no such requirement of having Intune ODJ connector to be same on AAD connect server. Both services serve different purpose and are independent and should always be consider for a separate server existence if the infrastructure has no restrictions.

AAD connect server already have few dedicated work which consume much resources from the server, giving it extra task of Intune ODJ will only take a toll on its performance if your are having large number of devices. But if this is a small environment, both can be on Same server. For example, I run everything on same server (DC, AAD connect, Intune connector) and it works perfectly fine obviously mine is a very small lab environment,

Share us the support ticket number if you want us to have a look at it. Also if you can share the actual problem, with as much detail as possible, may be I can help.

RICHARD ZECCHINO 0 Reputation points

2025-07-14T12:17:17.0866667+00:00

can you provide and updated link that documents the recommendation to put the odjconnector on a seperate server from entra id connect please. the link above is dead.
Jason Sandys 31,421 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2025-07-14T13:28:11.1766667+00:00

I'll start here with the obligatory why are you using hybrid join with Autopilot? Are you aware of our (Microsoft's) strong recommendation that you not do this at all? If not, here's our official guidance: We strongly discourage the use of hybrid join with Autopilot and instead strongly suggest that orgs adopt cloud-native Windows and Entra join with Autopilot or continue to use ConfigMgr OSD for device provisioning if they truly have a need to hybrid join some devices. The ultimate end-goal for all orgs should be adopt cloud-native Windows.

This guidance is clearly spelled out at https://aka.ms/EntraJoin-WhichOption.

As for your actual question, I don't think we have any official guidance on this although we only do testing of the connector on a stand-alone server and so cannot say what happens if or when it is co-located with any other services. In general, I'd not expect this to be an issue but that's also generally a risk you assume since we don't test this (as noted).

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