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Autopilot Hardware Hash changed

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Hi folks!

 

I’ve done some testing on autopilot now with two different Lenovo models, a L380 Yoga and L390 Yoga.

What really confuses me is the fact that everytime I do a clean install of Windows 10 (from an iso file) the hardware hash is changing. Is this really a normal behaviour? I thought the hardware hash is calculated just based on hardware configurations, but it seems that something else is part of that calculation. Can someone help me out?

 

 

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@gerlach_6300 Hey, do you do anything with the TPM settings in the BIOS during your deployment?

@Coert Kastelein I tried different methods during deployment (i. a clearing the TPM via BIOS)^and it doesn't matter. The hash value in the generated .csv is always different.

 

Someone told me that there is also a timestamp part of the hardware hash in the .csv and because of that the hash is always different. But this actually makes no sense to me

 

best response confirmed by gerlach_6300 (Copper Contributor)
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Ok, I found the answer here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-autopilot/add-devices

 

Note that the hardware hash also contains details about when it was generated, so it will change each time it is generated

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best response confirmed by gerlach_6300 (Copper Contributor)
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Ok, I found the answer here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-autopilot/add-devices

 

Note that the hardware hash also contains details about when it was generated, so it will change each time it is generated

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