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timjeens
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Apr 30, 2025

Moving from MDT/WDS to Autopilot – Real-World Lessons, Wins & Gotchas

Hi all, We’ve been moving away from an ageing WDS + MDT setup and over to Windows Autopilot, and I thought I’d share a few key lessons and experiences from the journey. In case anyone else is work...
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fjansson
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May 05, 2025

How long approx is the deployment time now using Autopilot? How many apps do you have forced in your ESP? Are you using user-driven mode with or without pre-provisioning, in that case are you yourself or an external part performing the pre-provisioning?

Kind regards,
Frida

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    timjeens
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    May 06, 2025

    Gosh the autopilot bit itself depends on your internet speed but it’s about 25-35mins from boot up. But really depends on what policies you have and software you are pushing from intune. We also use NinjaOne to push out some software that isn’t compatible with intune as well. About 15-20 apps, depending the users membership.

    we still do a curated set up though for our users, takes a lot of the frustrations away from them, and we know then it’s set up correctly.

     

    We’re still using old laptops, so no pre provisioning yet.

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