Top 5 MD-102 Microsoft Intune Scenarios Every Administrator Should Master

Top 5 MD-102 Practice Scenarios Every Intune Admin Should Know (2025 Guide)

If you’re preparing for the MD-102: Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator exam or managing devices in Microsoft Intune daily, mastering real-world configuration scenarios is essential. Below is a detailed breakdown of five important questions based on actual Intune and Entra ID (Azure AD) management tasks—rewritten in a blog-style format to help you understand the logic behind each answer.

1. Prevent Users from Becoming Local Administrators on Azure AD-Joined Devices

When users join their Windows 11 devices to Azure AD, they’re automatically added to the local Administrators group by default. This can pose a security risk, especially in large environments.

Solution: Configure Device Settings in Azure AD

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center.
Go to Devices → Device Settings.
Under Additional local administrators on Azure AD-joined devices, select None or specify a group of trusted admins.
Save your changes.

This ensures that new users joining devices are standard users, not local admins.

🔒 Why it matters: Minimizing local admin privileges reduces the attack surface and helps enforce the principle of least privilege across managed endpoints.

2. Enforcing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Compliance and Blocking Suspicious Scripts

As part of endpoint protection, organizations often want to:

Enforce Defender for Endpoint compliance using Conditional Access, and
Prevent malicious scripts from executing on managed devices.

Solution:

Step 1: Configure the Intune–Defender for Endpoint connection in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.
This integration ensures devices are evaluated for health and compliance. Conditional Access can then block non-compliant or at-risk devices.
Step 2: Use Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules in Intune.
Example: Enable the rule “Block Office applications from creating child processes” to stop script-based attacks.

🛡️ Tip: ASR rules can be managed under Endpoint Security → Attack Surface Reduction in the Intune admin center.

3. Sending Event Logs from a Workgroup Computer to Log Analytics

Let’s say you have a Windows 10 computer not joined to Azure AD or on-premises AD, but you still want to monitor it using Azure Log Analytics.

Solution: Install the Azure Monitor Agent

Download and install the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA).
During setup, link it to your Log Analytics workspace ID and key.
Once connected, you can query the system logs directly in the Azure portal.

📊 Why this works: The Azure Monitor Agent provides telemetry and performance data to Azure Monitor without requiring Azure AD join or Intune enrollment.

4. Managing Personal Windows 11 Devices with Intune

Organizations that support BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies often need a way to manage personal devices while respecting user privacy.

Solution: Use Azure AD Registered Devices

Azure AD registration allows users to connect their personal Windows devices using their personal accounts, while admins still enforce Intune management policies.

Devices are registered under Entra ID → Devices → Azure AD registered.
Admins can apply App Protection Policies (APP) to secure data in Microsoft 365 apps.
Users continue signing in with their personal Microsoft accounts, not corporate credentials.

💡 Best Practice: Combine Azure AD registration with conditional access and app protection policies to safeguard corporate data on unmanaged devices.

5. Naming Devices Automatically with Windows Autopilot

When using Windows Autopilot, you might want every enrolled device to have a unique name that includes the hardware serial number.

Solution: Configure Device Name Template

In the Intune admin center, go to Devices → Windows → Enrollment → Deployment Profiles.
Edit your Autopilot profile.
Under Device Name Template, use:
Contoso-%SERIAL%

This automatically replaces %SERIAL% with the device’s serial number during provisioning.

⚙️ Why it helps: It simplifies asset tracking and ensures each device name is unique and traceable.

Quick Recap

Scenario	Feature / Setting	Key Benefit
Prevent automatic local admin rights	Device settings in Entra ID	Enhances endpoint security
Enforce Defender for Endpoint compliance	Intune–Defender integration	Enables Conditional Access for endpoint health
Prevent suspicious scripts	ASR rules in Intune	Stops script-based attacks
Manage personal Windows 11 devices	Azure AD registration	Enables BYOD with corporate data protection
Automate device naming	Windows Autopilot	Standardizes deployment and naming

Final Thoughts

These five scenarios represent common administrative challenges that appear both in real-world Intune environments and on the MD-102 certification exam.

If you’re studying for MD-102 or managing an enterprise deployment, focus on mastering: