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Autopilot and OEM
- Not sure about the licensing part though.. but normally when you download a image
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download
And install the device with it you are good to go. When you have a valid win 10 pro license, you could enroll the device with autopilot and normally you will have a nice boat free installation.
And when you have a e3 license, the pro license would be upgraded to enterprise so you could use some additional enterprise security features. (device guard/credential guard )
Hi JWwork ,
as you mention in your question is that you prefer a clean OEM image. You ask e.g. HP for new laptops with a clean image but you have to pay for it
for current device you can reset them to default. Purchase all store apps in store for business and setup the connector and set all those applications as uninstall. Create some win32 apps for the other applications like the virusscanner. Setup a enrollment status page and you have a clean image after autopilot.
you can also download the windows 10 media creation toolkit create a clean Windows 10 image and reinstall your devices.
If your device is already activated with a Windows 10/11 license you can select I don’t have a serial in the installation and Microsoft will recognize the serial key and activated it automatically after the installation.
The Windows 10/11 enterprise E3 needs a valid Windows 10/11 pro license to upgrade to enterprise.
kind regards,
René
And, to put my two cents in, you can always read the OEM product key from BIOS and activate your vanilla Windows with it. In my opinion that's always 'cleaner' than just using a VLK.
It's done in a few PowerShell lines, for example like I did here: https://gist.github.com/NielsS79/4b76082ea0eda0264bfbd0f435c0306f
Edit: I accidently replied to your post, Mr_Helaas... meant to reply to JWwork, of course.
