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How to Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group | Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups

Let’s discuss how to Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group or Azure Active Directory Dynamic Group.

In my previous post, “How to Create Azure AD Dynamic Groups for Managing Devices via Intune,” we discussed creating Azure AD Dynamic Device or User groups. Another question I usually get is, “How do you remove or Exclude a device from Azure Active Directory Dynamic Device Group?”.

I expect this could be one of the scenarios used in deploying security/configuration policies via Intune. It is a very valid scenario; you can’t avoid it in device management. If you are an experienced SCCM Admin, no explanation is needed.

Removing a single device directly from the AAD Dynamic device group is impossible. Yes, a remove button is available, but when you select a device and click on it, a confirmation popup with a YES button will appear.

Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group

Clicking the YES button will give an error message stating that you can’t remove the device from the Azure AD dynamic device group: “Failed to remove member LENexus 5 from group _Android Devices.” However, this can be achieved by adding some conditions to the advance membership rule query in AAD dynamic groups.

DeviceDetails
MemberLGENexus 5
GroupAndroid Devices
Membership TypeDynamic
Member TypeDevice
How to Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group | Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups – Table 1
How to Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group | Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups - Fig.1
How to Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group | Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups – Fig.1

Advanced rules for AAD Dynamic membership are based on binary expressions. One Azure AD dynamic query can have more than one binary expression. Each binary expression is separated by a conditional operator, either ‘and” or “or“. You can play around with this conditional operator to remove the devices from the AAD dynamic device or user groups.

How to Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group | Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups - Fig.2
How to Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group | Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups – Fig.2

Following is the advanced membership rule query I used to remove a device in the AAD dynamic device group. In this query, the conditional operator between 2 binary expressions is -and.

(device.deviceOSType -contains "Android") -and (device.displayName -notcontains "LGENexus 5")

I don’t know the result or whether this will work effectively when we deploy a configuration policy via Intune to this AAD device group. I assume it will work because I can see a difference in the device icon called “LGENexus 5.” That is the device that I tried to exclude using the above query.

How to Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group | Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups - Fig.3
How to Exclude a Device from Azure AD Dynamic Device Group | Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups – Fig.3

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Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP! He is a Device Management Admin with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.