how-to-enable.md

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Enable co-management	Configuration Manager	Quickly enable co-management in Configuration Manager to gain immediate value.	08/02/2021	co-management	configuration-manager	how-to	gowdhamankarthikeyan	gokarthi	apoorvseth	medium	tier3	mstewart,aaroncz

How to enable co-management in Configuration Manager

When you enable co-management, you can gain immediate value. Then once you're ready, you can start transitioning workloads as needed and if desired in your environment.

The phrase Pilot group is used throughout the co-management feature and configuration dialogs. A pilot group is a collection containing a subset of your Configuration Manager devices. Use a pilot group for your initial testing, adding devices as needed, until you're ready to move the workloads for all Configuration Manager devices. There isn't a time limit on how long a pilot group can be used for workloads. A pilot group can be used indefinitely if you don't wish to move the workload to all Configuration Manager devices.

Make sure the co-management prerequisites are set up before you start this process. For more information, see Prerequisites.

Tip

As a companion to this article, we recommend using the co-management setup guide when signed in to the Microsoft 365 admin center. This guide will customize your experience based on your environment.

Enable co-management for versions 2111 and later

[!INCLUDE Enable Co-management starting in version 2111]

Enable co-management for versions 2107 and earlier

[!INCLUDE Enable Co-management in versions 1906 through 2107]

Next steps

Now that you've enabled co-management, look at the following articles for immediate value you can gain in your environment:

• Conditional access

• Remote actions from Intune

• Client health