Onboard Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices using Mobile Device Management tools

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Applies to:

You can use mobile device management (MDM) solutions to configure devices. Microsoft 365 information protection supports MDM solutions by providing OMA-URIs to create policies to manage devices.

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Before you begin

If you're using Microsoft Intune, the device must be enrolled in MDM.

For more information on enabling MDM with Microsoft Intune, see Device enrollment (Microsoft Intune).

Onboard devices using Microsoft Intune

Follow the instructions from Intune.

Note

The Health Status for onboarded devices policy uses read-only properties and can't be remediated.

Offboard and monitor devices using Mobile Device Management tools

For security reasons, the package used to offboard devices will expire 30 days after the date it was downloaded. Expired offboarding packages sent to a device will be rejected. When you download an offboarding package, you are notified of the package's expiry date. The expiry date is also included in the package name.

Note

Onboarding and offboarding policies must not be deployed on the same device at the same time. If they are, unpredictable collisions will result.

  1. Get the offboarding package from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

  2. In the navigation pane, select Settings > Device onboarding > Offboarding.

  3. In the Deployment method field, select Mobile Device Management / Microsoft Intune.

  4. Select Download package, and save the .zip file.

  5. Extract the contents of the .zip file to a shared, read-only location that can be accessed by the network administrators who will deploy the package. You should have a file named DeviceCompliance_valid_until_YYYY-MM-DD.offboarding.

  6. Use the Microsoft Intune custom configuration policy to deploy the following supported OMA-URI settings.

    OMA-URI: ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/WindowsAdvancedThreatProtection/Offboarding
Date type: String
Value: [Copy and paste the value from the content of the DeviceCompliance_valid_until_YYYY-MM-DD.offboarding file]

    Note

    If Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is already configured, you can Turn on device onboarding. If you do this, step 6 is not required.

Note

The Health Status for offboarded devices policy uses read-only properties and can't be remediated.

Important

Offboarding causes the device to stop sending sensor data to the portal. However, data from the device, including reference to any alerts it has received, will be retained for up to 6 months.