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#customer intent: As a platform engineer, I want to configure elevated privilege management for dev boxes so that dev box users do not need local administrative privileges.
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# Configure Microsoft Intune Endpoint Privilege Management for dev boxes
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- *Deploy an elevation settings policy* - An elevation settings policy activates EPM on the client device. This policy also allows you to configure settings that are specific to the client but aren't necessarily related to the elevation of individual applications or tasks.
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- *Deploy elevation rule policies* - An elevation rule policy links an application or task to an elevation action. Use this policy to configure the elevation behavior for applications your organization allows when the applications run on the device.
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## Prerequisites
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- A dev center with a dev box project.
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- Microsoft Intune subscription.
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## License Endpoint Privilege Management
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In this section, you configure EPM licensing and assign the EPM license to the target user.
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Endpoint Privilege Management requires either a stand-alone license that adds only EPM, or license EPM as part of the Microsoft Intune Suite.
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In this section, you configure EPM licensing and assign the EPM license to a user.
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1. Configure the Azure tenant administrator for EPM purchasing:
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1. Open the [Microsoft Intune admin center](https://intune.microsoft.com), and navigate to **Tenant admin** > **Intune add-ons**.
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1. In the Intune admin center, go to **Users**, and select the user you want to assign the role to.
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1. Select **Add assignments** and assign the **Global Administrator** role, and the **Intune Administrator** role.
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:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/tenant-admin.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Microsoft Intune admin center, showing the available tenant admin roles." lightbox="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/tenant-admin.png":::
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1. Apply the EPM license in Microsoft 365:
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1. In the Intune admin center, go to **Users**, and select the user you want to assign the E5 and EPM licenses to.
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1. Select **Assignments** and assign the licenses.
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:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/assign-license.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Microsoft Intune admin center, showing the available licenses." lightbox="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/assign-license.png":::
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## Create Intune group
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## Deploy an elevation settings policy
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In this section, you create a dev box and an Intune group that you use to test the EPM policy configuration.
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A dev box must have an elevation settings policy that enables support for EPM to process an elevation rules policy or manage elevation requests. When support is enabled, the `C:\Program Files\Microsoft EPM Agent folder` is added to the dev box along with the EPM Microsoft Agent, which processes the EPM policies.
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EPM supports the following operating systems:
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- Windows 11 (versions 23H2, 22H2, and 21H2)
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- Windows 10 (versions 22H2, 21H2, and 20H2)
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In this section, you create a dev box and an Intune group that you use to test the EPM policy configuration. Then, you create an EPM elevation settings policy and assign the policy to the group.
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1. Create a Dev Box Definition
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1. Create a dev box definition
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1. In the Azure portal, create a [Dev Box Definition](how-to-manage-dev-box-definitions.md). Specify a supported OS, like *Windows 11, version 22H2*.
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1. In the Azure portal, create a [dev box definition](how-to-manage-dev-box-definitions.md). Specify a supported OS, like *Windows 11, version 22H2*.
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> [!NOTE]
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> EPM supports the following operating systems:
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> - Windows 11 (versions 23H2, 22H2, and 21H2)
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> - Windows 10 (versions 22H2, 21H2, and 20H2)
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1. In your project, create a [dev box pool](how-to-manage-dev-box-pools.md) that uses the new dev box definition.
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1. Assign [Dev Box User](how-to-dev-box-user.md) role to the target user.
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1. Assign [Dev Box User](how-to-dev-box-user.md) role to the test user.
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1. Create Dev Box for the target user
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1. Create a dev box for testing the policy
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1. Sign in to the [developer portal](https://aka.ms/devbox-portal).
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1. Create a dev box using the dev box pool you created in the previous step.
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1. Determine the dev box hostname. You'll use this hostname add the dev box to and Intune group in the next step.
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1. Create an Intune group
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1. Create an Intune group and add the dev box to the group
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1. Open the [Microsoft Intune admin center](https://intune.microsoft.com), select **Groups** > **New group**.
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## Create EPM policy and assign policy to Dev Box
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1. In the Microsoft Intune admin center, select **Endpoint security** > **Endpoint Privilege Management** > **Create Policy**.
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1. Create an EPM elevation settings policy and assign it to the group.
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1. In the Microsoft Intune admin center, select **Endpoint security** > **Endpoint Privilege Management** > **Policies** > **Create Policy**.
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:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/intune-endpoint-security.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Microsoft Intune admin center, showing the Endpoint security | Endpoint Privilege Management pane." lightbox="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/intune-endpoint-security.png":::
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1. In the **Create a profile** pane, select the following settings:
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1. In the **Create a profile** pane, select the following settings:
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1. On the **Basics** tab, enter a name for the policy.
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:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/create-profile-name.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the Create profile basics tab with Policy name highlighted." lightbox="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/create-profile-name.png":::
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1. On the **Assignments** tab, select **Add groups**, add the group you created earlier, and then select **Create**.
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1. On the **Configuration settings** tab, in **Default elevation response**, select **Deny all elevation requests**.
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:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/deny-all-requests.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the Create profile Configuration settings tab, with Endpoint Privilege Management enabled and Default elevation response set to Deny all requests." lightbox="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/deny-all-requests.png":::
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1. On the **Assignments** tab, select **Add groups**, add the group you created earlier, and then select **Create**.
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:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/assign-defined-group.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the Create profile Assignments tab, with Add groups highlighted." lightbox="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/assign-defined-group.png":::
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## Verify the user can't run applications with administrative privileges
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In this section, you validate that the Microsoft EPM Agent is installed and the policy is applied to the dev box.
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:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/intune-device-configuration.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the Microsoft Intune admin center, with the Devices pane and Device configuration highlighted." lightbox="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/intune-device-configuration.png":::
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:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/device-profile-settings.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the Profile Settings, with Setting status highlighted." lightbox="media/how-to-elevate-privilege-dev-box/device-profile-settings.png":::
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## Related content
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* For more information, see [Use Intune Suite add-on capabilities](/em/intune/fundamentals/intune-add-ons).
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* [Use Intune Suite add-on capabilities](/em/intune/fundamentals/intune-add-ons).
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* [Use Endpoint Privilege Management with Microsoft Intune](/mem/intune/protect/epm-overview)
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