"conditional access" was not the answer.
That only leads you to more "apps" and M365"
It appears to be meant to allow or deny to "app" type resources"
Things that are completely in the cloud.
And virtual machines that are in the cloud.
I'd like to know if ANY local settings can be provisioned or synced starting with the user's password at the Windows 10 computer fromn Azure AD WITHOUT added license
or complicated apps that may do this.
I am getting my own impression that the only way to do this is that some local app needs to be running on the machine..
That app itself "syncs" from settings that are in Azure AD or another cloud "app" that is in the cloud,
All of which require special additional licensing (versus free or included licensing in many business packages) and somewhat complicated setup.
Not sure if this is correct but is one of my possible guesses/conclusions.
And should be way overkill of a solution to centrally manage a small company's ten computer user passwords (and whether they are a local admin or not).