how to create a test enviornment to enroll Devices on MDM

Question

Hi Everyone,

I would like to know how to setup a test environment for Device MDM enrollment.
As per our current scenerio, we have Azure Ad connected via AD connect to On pre AD.
All the devices are synched on Azure AD as AD registered
however, we are planning to migrate our devices to Azure AD join
This is our production environment wherein Office365 is being managed via this.
I was going though the Azure AD connect topologies, however unable to understand which will suit best for testing before making any changes to production.
Kindly advise.

Answer 1

@Thakur, Rohit Thanks for reaching out.

For a test tenant setup for Intune, you can follow this guide which will help you with step by step process of creating a free Intune tenant :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/fundamentals/free-trial-sign-up

Since you mention that you have an onprem setup and devices are getting synced from on-prem to azure AD, the best state for your devices would be Hybrid Azure AD join, that way you can utilize the benefit of both world. Here is how you can perform Hybrid Azure AD join for the Existing devices :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/mdm/enroll-a-windows-10-device-automatically-using-group-policy

For new Device you can use Autopilot under Intune to set them up as Hybrid Azure AD join - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/autopilot/windows-autopilot-hybrid

Your topology seems to be straight forward, 1 on-prem AD syncing to 1 Azure AD tenant, so you do not have to worry about anything, you can go ahead and setup the devices to Hybrid State as per above scenarios. Feel free to let me know if you have any follow up questions.

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