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lfk73
Brass Contributor
Sep 07, 2025

Win 10-Win 11 clean install via Intune

I know you can do a win10 to win11 upgrade in Intune but I was trying to work out a way to push a fresh install rather than i place upgrade. Is this possible?
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Kidd_Ip
MVP
Sep 10, 2025

How about bysing Autopilot which lets you provision devices with a clean install during the Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE):


1.     Reimage the device manually or via PXE/USB with a clean Windows 11 ISO.
2.     Ensure the device is registered with Autopilot (via hardware hash).
3.     Create an Autopilot deployment profile in Intune:
•     Choose Self-Deploying Mode or User-Driven Mode.
•     Assign the profile to the device group.
4.     During OOBE, the device will enroll into Intune and apply your policies/apps.

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    lfk73
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 11, 2025

    Explored and rejected the idea.  Reasons being:

    1. Required registering the device hardware hash
    2. Requires someone to touch the device to initiate the build

     

    What id ideally want is to start with the Win10 machine already in Intune and then initiate an autopilot rebuild from there.  I even see an "Autopilot reset" on a device in Win10 I manually enrolled.  

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