Understanding enrollment time grouping
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 …