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SimonAllison
Iron Contributor
Jul 05, 2018

Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo - A quicker way...

Hi All   Just a Tip from me to make it easier  (if you got other ways, let me know, would be interested)      Starting to deploy via Autopilot but first grabbing the information - so I am using ...
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firebladez
Copper Contributor
Nov 08, 2019

Thanks SimonAllison - I'll give it a go today... 🙂 

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SimonAllison
Iron Contributor
Nov 08, 2019

firebladez 

 

I have just tested and there is an error, but this one works - all I did was remove the "p" as this gives the path and not just the drive.  updating scripts 

 

@ECHO ON
PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command %~d0\Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1 -ComputerName $env:computername -OutputFile %~d0\$env:computername.csv

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    Andycap147
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 09, 2020

    SimonAllison Do you know if it's possible to use this without completing Windows setup.  ie During OOBE after networking has been setup?

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      Acominatus
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 04, 2022

       Andycap147 Yes, pressing Caps+F10

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      SimonAllison
      Iron Contributor
      Dec 15, 2020

      Andycap147 the whole process was designed that I know of to run under OOBE, you cant do it on pre-existing setups as it was all designed to run out of the box on new surface devices, as in the background and permissions, and apps etc are from Azure AD and Intune. 

       

      I was looking for the same setup where you could use pre-existing windows setups, but sadly it wasnt the case, as you would loose all existing apps.

       

      sorry for the late reply 

      • Mr_Cuddy's avatar
        Mr_Cuddy
        Copper Contributor
        Oct 21, 2021

        SimonAllison ,

        Instead of 

        PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command %~dp0\Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1 -ComputerName $env:computername -OutputFile %~dp0\computers.csv -append,

         

        Leave out the -ComputerName variable:

        PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command %~dp0\Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1  -OutputFile %~dp0\computers.csv -append

         

        This defaults the script to localhost, which is what the script sees (I believe) in the OOB screen. Either way, it works. 

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    firebladez
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 11, 2019

    hi SimonAllison - sorry could not get this to work - after running the cmd as admin it had a heap of error then the powershell page closed - it was something like, the client can not connect to the destination specified in the request - and you can not call a method on a null-valued expression... this is what I managed to get from the quick vid I got on my phone 

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      AndrewSkoulding
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 03, 2020

      firebladezI had to run the following in an elevated CMD prompt:

       

      winrm quickconfig

       

      That fixed the mass of red being thrown back from the PS script. Hope this helps you

       

      • muscleflex's avatar
        muscleflex
        Copper Contributor
        May 20, 2021
        I got mine to work after your tip... but do I have to run this on all the machines first? Any way of adding this to the cmd file?

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