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

Thanks for sharing this. We are about to begin our pilot of Autopilot. We use Intune for iPhones/Tablets today. Haven't configured Intune for use with Windows Devices at all. Blank Canvas.

We are a hybrid org, mostly on prem, traditional MDT/WDS imaging, local domain joining, GPOs, login scripts, all the traditional bells and whistles. We do use O365 heavily and do a partial AD->Entra Sync, mostly for user objects RE: Exchange Online, Teams, et al. Most of our org resources are still legacy (on prem)...think DCs, File & Print, NPS, et al.  WE use WSUS, and Endpoint Central now, along with GPOs for device & configuration management.  Our WPA2/3 is using NPS->DCs for RADIUS/AAA. 

So it would seem we are in a place where you were before your initiative to adopt Intune for WIndows Endpoint Management. 

We'll need to evaluate whether it makes sense to go pure cloud managed devices. I've done it before at another org. Pros/Cons. 

Later this month, we'll begin to setup Intune for device enrollment and see what we see. Love to go pure cloud managed, but so much of our infrastructure is legacy still. It'll be a much larger project to plan out all layers of the infrastructure which would need to be touched to lean more cloud vs hybrid on prem. 

GOing to be interesting to figure out our way forward.