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title Enroll a Windows device
description Learn how to enroll a Windows device into Microsoft Intune. Follow this step-by-step evaluation guide to test device enrollment and verify it in the Intune admin center.
services microsoft-intune
ms.date 01/20/2026
ms.topic how-to
ms.reviewer maholdaa
ms.collection
M365-identity-device-management

Step 5 - Enroll a Windows device in Microsoft Intune

Enrollment ensures that all devices trying to access data within your organization are secure and compliant with your policies and requirements. Upon enrollment, the device gets access to resources like work email, files, VPN, and Wi-Fi. Employees and students who want remote access to work or school resources can also enroll their devices into Microsoft Intune.

[!INCLUDE intune-evaluate]

In this article, you:

  • Try out the device user experience by enrolling a device running Windows into Microsoft Intune.
  • Try out the admin user experience by verifying the enrollment in the Microsoft Intune admin center.

Prerequisites

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:::row::: :::column span="1"::: [!INCLUDE rbac] :::column-end::: :::column span="3":::

Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center with the following role:

:::row::: :::column span="1"::: [!INCLUDE device-configuration] :::column-end::: :::column span="3":::

To complete this step, you must:

Enroll device

These steps guide you through using the Settings app on a Windows device to enroll the device into Intune.

  1. On the device, open the Settings app, and select Accounts.

  2. Select Access work or school.

  3. Select Connect to add a work or school account.

    :::image type="content" source="./media/quickstart-first-device/quickstart-enroll-windows-device-04.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Windows Settings, Accounts section, showing Access work or school with Connect button highlighted." lightbox="./media/quickstart-first-device/quickstart-enroll-windows-device-04.png":::

  4. Enter the username and password for your work account. If you followed the create a user and assign a license evaluation step, you can use the user account that you created.

  5. Wait for your device to finish registering. When you see the You're all set! screen, select Done. Your work account should now be visible under Accounts.

    :::image type="content" source="./media/quickstart-first-device/quickstart-enroll-windows-device-06.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Windows Settings showing a connected work or school account under Access work or school." lightbox="./media/quickstart-first-device/quickstart-enroll-windows-device-06.png":::

    If you followed the previous steps, but still can't access your work or school email account and files, see Troubleshoot Windows device access.

When the device is enrolled in Intune, it starts to receive the Intune policies you create. Common questions, answers, and scenarios with policies and profiles in Microsoft Intune provides more information about how policies and profiles work in Intune.

Confirm device enrollment

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center.
  2. Select Devices > All devices to view the enrolled devices in Intune.
  3. Verify that you have an additional device enrolled within Intune.

Clean up resources

To unenroll the device, see Remove your Windows device from management.

Next steps

In this task, you learned how to enroll a Windows device into Intune. For more information about the user experience on the device, see the following resources:

You can also automate Windows device enrollment. To learn more, see Windows enrollment guide for Microsoft Intune.

To continue evaluating Microsoft Intune, go to the next step:

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