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Can Autopilot be used with Windows 365 Business?
Just as the subject says. Can Autopilot be used with Windows 365 Business when you already have Microsoft 365 Business Premium for your company? Already have Azure Active Directory P1 with the Microsoft 365 licenses. So it should work???
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- I dont believe you can use Autopilot with W365. The enrollment of the device is not initiated from the user. When you look in Intune/Azure AD you will see none at enrolled by. The enrollment process is something Microsoft takes care of.
If you want to have your applications ready to go you will need a custom image but that is only supported in Enterprise- Like I said earlier.
W365 Business is seriously gimped from the start.
It's essentially like giving a user a new PC and telling them that they have to install all of their own applications.
Do you know how many users that can't even follow a installer along there are?
Probably billion/s!
It's all because they are either too afraid of what is displayed on a screen or have reading comprehension issues that they can ignore by doing most things verbally.
My approach would be to build a custom image, put it in the Shared Image Gallery and then choose that for your W365 machines (basically follow the same process as for AVD custom image development, remembering to take a snapshot before sysprep so you can then spin up a new VM from that snapshot for monthly updates etc.).
David Bubb Does that work with W365 Business though? That's the million dollar question. It should work with W365 Enterprise but the fact that there is no real documentation for W365 yet makes it harder to do.
astansbery1010 Ah, sorry, you are right; custom image is not supported in "Business" 😢
- We are using autopilot in our tenant with it. It halfway works. It inventories but doesn't change the device name. Config profiles and app deployments work but I'm still fine tuning it. Message me if you want to collaborate on what we're doing
- I'm just trying to use autopilot to setup basically a single image with everything already installed and all I have to do is deploy the VM to the user and all of the needed applications are pre-installed and ready to go.
- I'm still stuck on it installing apps after they sign in as well which is a non starter. Until I can get it to pre-deploy all apps on setup, I might have to wait for W365 E. Have you tried created a dynamic group to contain the w365 machines and use device based deployment for the apps?
