I’ve run a lot of demonstrations of Intune for Education over the last few months and today I tried to see if I could enroll a Windows 10 Home Edition BYOD device into Intune for Education.
This is an important consideration because many of the devices that students bring to school typically only have Windows 10 Home Edition on them and this can not be joined to a local Domain. It’s worth being aware, however, that schools can set up the Kivuto portal for free, and offer their students the ability to boost their BYOD Windows 10 version to Pro Edu for free and for the life of the device. You can see how to do this here.
Here are the steps to join a BYOD Win10 Home Edition device to Intune for Education:
1) Under settings, go to “Access work or school” and click the “Connect” button in the main view on the right:
2) Alternatively, if you hit the Windows button and search for “About this PC” you’ll see overall device info like below. Note the Edition is Windows 10 Home and there is also a link directly to “Connect to work or school”
3) When prompted, enter your full school email address as below:
4) When prompted, enter your school password:
5) If entered correctly, you’ll receive confirmation it’s been done:
6) You will then be advised that the device is being registered and applications and policy is being applied in line with the settings in Intune for Education:
7) Once completed, you will now be returned to the “Connect to work or school” screen and can now see your account listed as below:
8) As a reference, below is the product licenses assigned to the demo user in my Office 365 Tenant:
9) If you hit the Windows key you should see the various apps streaming to the device as per the policy in Intune for Education:
For schools, knowing that they can can enroll Windows 10 Home Edition BYOD directly into Intune For Education is an important step as they don’t need to worry about upgrading the devices to Win10 Pro / Edu.
Sam, sorry to post on an old article, students may purchase a new device/device gets stolen/broken over their school life, how does this apply to the user for multiple devices?
Hey Matt,
you’re always welcome to comment on an old post!
Is the question “how many devices can a student enrol into AAD?”
Essentially AAD is just a connection between the student’s device and Azure AD so there is no hard and fast limits on this,. The following (2015) blog post shows you can set an upper limit on student devices if you wanted to:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2015/05/28/azure-ad-join-on-windows-10-devices/
The place to set this is here:
https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/DevicesMenuBlade/DeviceSettings/menuId/
I can’t upload a screenshot but there is a drop down menu of settings from 5/10/ –> unlimited number of devices.
with Intune I’m pretty certain there is no limit, but from an Admin perspective you can un-enrol devices if you wish.
Does this answer your question?
Cheers
Sam
Hi Sam, thanks for the article. Is it only Windows 10 store apps that deploy to home?
Hi Tom
Think you’re confusing Home and 10 in S mode (more commonly, 10S)
Windows 10S only allows apps from the store to be installed.
Standard Windows 10 Home can install any application.
Cheers
Sam
Hi, Im having real trouble working out Windows 10 Home AD Registered devices (BYOD) and what can actually be a workable required install. I can only get store apps to deploy automatically and any win32/Microsoft 365 Apps wont auto install to required users or devices nor wil they show on the Company portal under apps. Same user ,same connection method on a Windows 10 Edu edition, everything works fine. Nothing clear in Microsoft’s mess of docs that clearly indicates definitive yes or no on versions of windows. And a lot of their docs are out of date. Is there a way you can explain how to get Student Win 10 Home byod devices who AD register at least Microsoft and the universal printer deployed to them automatically so i dont have to keep creating all these how to guides? Thanks for you site and knowledge : )
Hi Trevor,
This is a limitation of Windows 10/11 Home – you can AAD register and deploy store apps as you’ve successfully done, but you can’t deploy Win32 apps on Home – you need Win10/11 Pro / Enterprise / Education to do that.
For BYOD devices, depending on your academic licensing you can upgrade from Win10 Home to Win10 Education at no cost using the Kivuto webstore – check out this blog post showing you how:
https://samuelmcneill.com/2021/11/09/how-to-free-upgrade-from-windows-home-to-windows-education-edition/
Hope this helps,
Sam