Managing devices

Windows 10 was designed to be managed using cloud-based tools such as Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Nowadays, more businesses are moving away from on-premises domain environments to the cloud.

In this section, you will learn how to register a device in Azure AD with a work or school account using cloud-based services. We will also look at how to enable device registration and the process of joining devices to Azure AD.

Azure AD is Microsoft's cloud-based identity authentication and access management authorization service that enables your users to benefit from Single Sign-On (SSO) for cloud-based applications, such as Microsoft Office 365 and many other Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Azure AD join also enables Windows Hello, as well as access to the Microsoft Store for Business. Users can easily join their devices to your organization's Azure AD tenant.

When joining devices to an on-premises domain environment, the...