Intune Device Offboarding Agent Introduces an Agentic Way for Admins to Eliminate Security Risks from Unused or Outdated Endpoints! If your organization has old or unused devices, they might look safe because no one is using them, but they can still cause serious security problems.
Any device that is not monitored or managed properly can become a weak point in your organization’s network. Hackers could exploit it, or it could have incorrect settings that create security holes, or it might not follow compliance rules.
The Intune Device Offboarding Agent helps IT admins manage unused or outdated devices more efficiently and securely. It automatically scans the organization’s digital estate to identify devices that are inactive or no longer assigned to any user, saving admins from manual tracking.
Once identified, the agent provides a simple process to offboard these devices, ensuring they are removed from management without leaving security gaps. By eliminating unmanaged endpoints, it reduces the risk of attacks, misconfigurations, and compliance violations, while also keeping the environment clean, organized, and compliant.
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What Does the Device Offboarding Agent Do?
The Device Offboarding Agent scans your entire digital estate to identify devices that no longer belong or are no longer managed.
How Does this Agent Help IT Admins?
It removes the guesswork from device cleanup by clearly identifying and recommending which devices should be offboarded.
Why is Offboarding Important?
Offboarding devices keeps your environment clean, maintains digital hygiene, and helps reduce the overall attack surface.
Intune Device Offboarding Agent Introduces an Agentic Way for Admins to Eliminate Security Risks from Unused or Outdated Endpoints
When an employee leaves the company, their laptop, tablet, or phone might remain in the organisation’s network. If not removed, it could still access corporate data. The agent helps the organisation to automatically identify these devices and offboards them, preventing unauthorised access.
Organizations often have devices that were used for testing, projects, or temporary tasks but are no longer needed. These devices can clutter inventories and create potential security risks if left unmanaged. The Intune Device Offboarding Agent helps IT teams identify and remove such devices efficiently, keeping the environment clean, organized, and secure while reducing the chances of vulnerabilities or compliance issues.
- You can easily access the Agent from Microsoft Intune admin center
- Sign in to Microsoft Intune – Go to the Microsoft Intune admin center and log in with your admin credentials.
- Select the Agent on the Left side of Intune admin center
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Device Offboarding Agent
Microsoft Ignite has revealed major AI-driven enhancements coming to Intune, taking endpoint management into a new era of automation. This agent provides a simple, efficient, and automated way to remove unused devices, improving security and ensuring better compliance.
| Agent Details | Details |
|---|---|
| Name of the Agent | Device Offboarding Agent |
| Purpose | Removes outdated, unused, or unmanaged devices from the environment |
| How It Works | Scans the entire digital estate to identify devices that no longer belong |
| Benefits | Reduces attack surface, improves security, strengthens compliance |
| Outcome | Cleaner, safer, and more manageable device environment |
| Value to IT Teams | Saves time, eliminates manual cleanup, reduces risk |
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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for 10 consecutive years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is also a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.