Windows Autopilot device preparation

Understanding enrollment restrictions for Windows devices

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This week is a follow up to the post of last week. That post was focused on understanding corporate identifiers for Windows devices. A method to identify specific devices as corporate Windows devices, which is especially useful in combination with Windows Autopilot device preparation. This post will actually add-on to those corporate identifiers, by focusing on enrollment restrictions for Windows devices. Enrollment restrictions for Windows devices can be used to restrict devices from enrolling in Microsoft Intune. The main differentiators so far, however, were the ownership and OS version of the devices. But something changed in that area as well. With the assignment of device enrollment restrictions for Windows devices it’s now also possible to use specific filters. Using those filters provides more granularity in …

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Understanding corporate identifiers for Windows devices

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This week is sort of a follow up to the post of last week. That post was focused on understanding enrollment time grouping in Windows Autopilot device preparation. This post will focus on corporate identifiers for Windows devices. Corporate device identifiers are an important, but not required, addition to the Windows Autopilot device preparation experience. As the concept of Windows Autopilot device preparation is slightly different compared to the Windows Autopilot deployment profiles, there are also different requirements to still register a device as a corporate device. There is no longer the requirement to register devices with the Windows Autopilot deployment service. That, however, also means that there must be something different to make sure that only trusted devices can go through the Windows Autopilot …

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Understanding enrollment time grouping

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This week is all about one of the key features of Windows Autopilot device preparation. That feature is enrollment time grouping. Windows Autopilot device preparation itself is a new iteration of Windows Autopilot and is used to quickly set up and configure new Windows devices. So far, nothing new. The focus, however, of Windows Autopilot device preparation is to further simplify the deployment of Windows devices, by delivering consistent configurations, enhancing the overall setup speed, and improving the troubleshooting capabilities. Besides that, it also takes away the requirement of first registering Windows devices with the Windows Autopilot service. Instead the Windows Autopilot device preparation profile is assigned to users and applied after user authentication during the out-of-box experience (OOBE). That provides a much more flexible …

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