Enroll device without AD account?

[jonros]

We are preparing to switch from eDirectory to Active Directory. When we enroll devices via eDirectory, the devices are registered with:

- username (abcdef#)
- full name
- email

...among other things.

We have a lot of manually created accounts in eDirectory for, among other things, shared units and/or non-personal units that lack email addresses.

We are in the pipeline to run a script to replace all device usernames with the people's email addresses but the big question is what do we do with the devices that have accounts (manually created) that have no email addresses

Can you, for example, set up a new PreStage that you enroll them via again that does not tie them to a user account or are there other options?

[alexacas]

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@jonros wrote:

We are preparing to switch from eDirectory to Active Directory. When we enroll devices via eDirectory, the devices are registered with:

- username (abcdef#)
- full name
- email

...among other things.

We have a lot of manually created accounts in eDirectory for, among other things, shared units and/or non-personal units that lack email addresses.

We are in the pipeline to run a script to replace all device usernames with the people's email addresses but the big question is what do we do with the devices that have accounts (manually created) that have no email addresses

Can you, for example, set up a new PreStage that you enroll them via again that does not tie them to a user account or are there other options?

To enroll devices without Active Directory accounts, you can create a PreStage enrollment option that allows devices to be registered without being tied to user accounts. This way, you can handle shared or non-personal units more effectively.