Windows Autopilot | How It Works & How to Set It Up

These are the best practices and tips to set yourself up for success with Windows Autopilot. Windows Autopilot is a feature within Intune that allows you to send devices directly from hardware providers to end users.

New device provisioning is foundational to cloud attach and cloud-based update management. During initial Windows setup, Autopilot enables users to enroll their device through Intune device management, so PCs get to a managed and productive state without reimaging.

Principal GPM for Microsoft Windows, Jason Githens, compares Intune enrollment options, including the Company Portal, Workplace Join, Azure AD Join, and Windows Autopilot, then shows how to enable Windows Autopilot for easy device enrollment.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - Options to enroll devices into Intune
02:56 - Benefits and tradeoffs of Windows Autopilot
04:05 - Admin setup
05:07 - Autopilot settings
07:37 - Tips for success
08:43 - Wrap up

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[pastorjesse]

well produced! and great info, thanks!

[reguitarded]

Great video! Now all we need is a video just like this, but 1 hour long with more details for every step! :)

[djladieslove]

Thanks brother, clean and a great video

[seanricks]

Great Great Video. Thank you. I'm a subscriber now & I've shared the link to this video with my Team : )

[levancanh]

Thank you so much, so useful and informative <3

[aizat]

Good video. Quick overview. No long winded explanation - which we can find in other videos if we want to.

[saminanaz]

excellent explanation within 10 minuts instead of long long videos

[narayananbaskaran]

Nice Explanation about autopilot process

[Sabs]

@Microsoft Mechanics, My question would be, if you do not have the Hardware IDs, can you use auto pilot using only a user account that has permissions and license to join computers to Azure and that Azure has auto enrollment configured?

[centaurs]

Is there a way to enroll already registered intune devices to autopilot?

[leroyadsouza]

Does Windows Autopilot ESP honour Delivery Optimization settings?

[pedroduarte]

Hi there so if I have already devices as hybrid that is being synced from AD if I make them an Autopilot device they will be added as a serial number I assum they also have to be in Intune so I can trigger a fresh start? I’m a bit confused with already existing devices, for brand new devices it is easy though, any help would be great

[elvisalan]

What kind of job envirment requieres this type of work?

[TheSlowestZombie]

At 6:05 there's mention of assigning an Autopilot device to a user and having it say "Welcome <username>". I thought this was disabled because of security concerns? Or was that only preprovisioning that was affected?

[gabrich]

hello great video may i when you create profile and the assign group what is better assign it to groups that containing users or computers

[paulh]

2.40 I see that a Apple Macbook now also works with Windows 11 and Autopilot. Are there no extra steps needed for Apple?

[jessestark]

Can anyone provide some hardware vendors that can add newly purchased devices into Windows Autopilot? Im currently buying devices from Best Buy and importing them on my own.

[RuneHansen]

I have around 20 machines which has all been azure joined a while back, and as summer ends and school starts again, I am resetting them with Auto pilot reset, but it has been saying pending on around 15 of them for 4 hours now, what is up with that? :)

[FAli]

Hmm regarding the point made at 1:20 - I've had users self enroll from the settings page and their devices DO infact register to Azure as Hybrid Joined devices. Am i missing something?

[stephendetomasi]

Everyone says that Intune and Autopilot are replacing system imaging, but I don't really see how this does anything close. It lacks a LOT of features and settings that I'd come to expect from a replacement of a system image.