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AMA: Enrolling modern devices with Windows Autopilot
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Thursday, Jul 21, 2022, 08:00 AM PDTEvent details
Interested in the simplified Autopilot device enrollment flows? Do you have questions about pre-provisioned devices? Curious about advanced app and policy configuration during Windows Autopilot enro...
Heather_Poulsen
Updated Dec 27, 2024
RobdeRoos
Jul 21, 2022Iron Contributor
The biggest issue we have to use autopilot is to get the device in a "known state". Hardware vendors put devices on the shelf with bloatware/marketing stuf/etc. on the devices that potentially can create issues during autopilot. To get those devices into a "known state" we need to reimage those. That is a very time consuming process and highly undesirable.
Is there something coming that brings the device to te latest Windows build (desired) without bloatware during pre provisioning? (please say yes :P)
Olaf_Thyssen
Jul 21, 2022Brass Contributor
In our environment new devices coming with bloatfree OS directly from Lenovo & Dell (extra costs). This doesn‘t work when buying from the store near buy.
To get a fresh OS I recommend OSDcloud from David S.
It downloads/installs official business version of Win10 or 11 directly from MS source and injects drivers from Dell,Lenovo,HP,Microsoft,VMware from vendor sources based on hardware.
You just need 8GB USB pendrive and the custom script is even possible stored in Azure storage account …