By: Maggie Dakeva, Senior Product Manager - Microsoft Intune
We’ve heard organizations want Windows deployment to be simple for employees and predictable for IT admins. But before a device enrolls,...
Updated Aug 26, 2026
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Introducing device association for Windows Autopilot device preparation
I'm sorry, but this is a mess. This is still a step backwards compared to Autopilot v1. For Device Prep you're just moving the Corp ID requirement to now a CSV we need to export and import per device, with no reseller relationship. Until these things are fixed, Device Prep is a nonstarter
Not to mention one of the purposes of Device prep policies is so you can easily remove a device from your environment. Now it writes UEFI variables to my device that I have to remove as part of the decomissioning process. With corp device identifiers I can just remove a device from there and it is unable to connect to my environment. With this I need to remove it from the uploaded devices and remove the UEFI variables on the device.