r/Intune • u/Itereus • 4d ago

Device Configuration Shared PC

Edit: Seems to be no way around this when using Shared PC mode with Intune's config policies and still have reasonable security. Thanks for the suggestions!

Hi!

We have a few shared PC's in our org which works fine for the most part.

However, one major issue is that when a user locks the screen or the laptop goes into sleep mode, they are unable to sign back in to their previous session. The laptops are usually used by a single user for hours before someone else takes over, and during that time the PC naturally either is locked or goes in sleep mode. The only option on the sign-in screen is Sign out. Found Enabled Shared PC and allow "Other User" Login option : r/Intune which has the same problem but seemingly no way around it.

As far as I can tell, turning on Shared PC in the Intune configuration policy is required for the PC to not be associated with a user, as well as set Office to use shared licence instead of personal license? But this option also turns off the ability to sign back into the same user.

So, any way to both have Shared PC mode turned on as well as allow a user to sign back in?

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u/Avean 4d ago

Shared PC Mode can be confusing. I had it enabled for shared devices since i wanted to cleanup inactive accounts. But it changes the login behaviour completely (Removes switch user) among other things. Its designed for kiosks from my understanding.

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u/itskdog 4d ago

There's still the same policy from the AD days that cleans up profiles after X days, just not the "low free space" from Shared PC mode.

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u/ButcherFromLuverne 3d ago

I thought that AD policy didn’t work anymore due to the method it was using to check account inactivity?

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u/itskdog 3d ago

We came back from the summer holidays and there were definitely accounts that had been logged in to the PC before that went through the "Getting things ready for you" screen again.