Corporate device identifiers

Microsoft has announced that Corporate device identifiers for Windows is now working:

Autopilot Device Preparation - Part 5 - Corporate Device indentifier

If you have followed my blogs on setting up Autopilot Device Preparation (ADP) but ends up with this error:

Well – then your company is blocking Windows Personal devices in Device platform restrictions.

When the user logs in, the device is considered a Personal device. To overcome this problem, Microsoft has announced the “Corporate identifier”.

The Corporate identifier consist of Manufacturer, model and serial number.
The Corporate identifier can be uploaded as a .csv file.

To import a Corporate identifier csv file, navigate to Devices > Enrollment and click on “Corporate device identifiers”.

Click “Add” to select your csv file. 

As identifier type, select “Manufacturer, model and serial number (Windows only)”

Now your device is considered a Company device, and ADP will run.

 

Remark !!
When Corporate identifier was introduced it didn’t work, so Microsoft pulled it back for some “work”.
So – if you want to test out ADP now, you have to allow private devices.
Microsoft is expecting that this feature will be available later this month.

Autopilot Device Preparation - Part 4 - Monitoring

With Autopilot Device Preparation (ADP) comes a new report, that works in (almost close to) real-time.
The new report can be found under Devices | Monitor. Windows Autopilot device preparation deployments.

Here you find summarized progress of deployments with deployment trends.
You can select a device and find details of  the device, Timeline of the OOBE, Profile name and version, Apps applied with status and scripts applied with status.

Click on your device to find the deployment details.

Device details:

Apps details:

Scripts details:

This new report is a huge improvement over Autopilot v1 reporting.

Autopilot Device Preparation - Part 3 - User experience

In this part I will look at the user experience when we are using Autopilot Device Preparation (ADP).

Power up the PC (or virtual machine).
The device will boot into the OOBE.

When you come to “Choose your country or region”, choose your country and click Yes

On the next screens, choose your keyboard layout and (probably) Skip the second keyboard layout.

The next screens were hidden in Autopilot v1, but due to ADP and the fact that the hardware is not pre-registered to a tenant, we won’t get an Autopilot profile  until after the user sign-in, so we will go through the whole OOBE.
But, some of these screens are skipped by using Enterprise.

EULA.
Shown for both Pro and Enterprise. And you have to accept to continue.

Name the device.
This is only shown for Pro, and it is problematic. We probably don’t want the user to name their device.
Users must be informed that they must  click “Skip for now” (then we will have a powershell script to name the device according to company standard).

Personal or work/school.
This is only shown in Pro. The user must choose “Set up for work or school” (otherwise the pc will expect a consumer Microsoft account and not an Entra ID).

Sign in.
The pc is expecting the user to enter an enterprise account. 

The Autopilot (ADP) will take over and you will see the Setting up for work.

How does the % completed work ? Well, Michael Niehaus has looked into that:
What is it with Microsoft and progress bars? – Out of Office Hours (oofhours.com)

The progress can also be followed in Intune (I will come into that in a later blog post).

Required setup is complete.

Click on Next

Do you think we are through ? Oh no, our user s have to go through all the next screens..
What you see is dependent upon windows version (Enterprise or Pro).
This is for Pro.

Use location

Find my device

Diagnostics

Inking and typing

Tailored experience

Advertising ID

Finally…
now Checking for updates

Windows Hello.

Then....
We are ready

Some of all these screens can be avoided if you are running Enterprise.
Else.... that's a lot for the end user to go through.

Autopilot Device Preparation - Part 2 - Getting started

 In this blog post I will look at the steps in setting up Autopilot Device Preparation (ADP).

I will start with creating the groups, and then create the ADP profile.

User security group

The ADP profile will be targeted a User security group.
This is just an ordinary Entra ID security group, where the Membership type can be either Assigned or Dynamic User.
As this is a test, I’ve chosen Assigned, and added my test users.

Device security group

Then we need to configure a device group for the “just-in-time enrollment grouping”.
When you enroll your device with ADP, the device automatically becomes a member of this “just-in-time enrollment group”.

So, in Entra ID, create a new security group where Membership type is Assigned.
The important thing here, is to add an Owner.
As owner, add “Intune Autopilot ConfidentialClient” (It may have a display name of “Intune Provisioning Client, make sure that the service principal ID for the is f1346770-5b25-470b-88bd-d5744ab7952c)

Windows Autopilot device preparation

Now we are ready to create the ADP profile.
In the Intune portal, go to Devices > Enrollment > Device preparation policies

Here we choose Create

On the Introduction page, click on Next.

Basics

Fill in the name for the policy and click Next

Device Group

Enter the previously created device group and click Next

Configuration settings

This page has 4 configuration parts

Deployment settings

Not much to configure here, as ADP only supports Single user, User driven and Azure AD joined at the moment. But you can choose if the user can be an administrator or Standard user.

Out-of-box experience settings

Minutes allowed before showing installation eror:
Default is 30 minutes. Enter a number of minutes that you are sure are enough for setup and installation of Apps.

Apps

Add the apps you want to be installed during OOBE.
These apps should be assigned to the device group.
There can be multiple apps assigned to the device, but the apps selected here will be installed during OOBE, the rest of the apps will not be installed until the user logs in.

Scripts

Like Apps, you can select sripts you want to be ran during the OOBE.

Scope tags

Here you add additional scope tags.

Assignments

Enter the user group created earlier

Hit Save and we are through and ready to go.

In next blog post I will go through the User experience.

Autopilot Device Preparation aka Autopilot v2 - Part 1

Microsoft is currently rolling out  “next generation of Autopilot” called Autopilot Device Preparation.

I will, in a series of blogs, walk you through what’s new, comparing Autopilot v1 and Autopilot v2, requirements and how to setup and use.

What is Autopilot Device Preparation (ADP) ?

Autopilot Device Preparation (ADP) is the successor to Windows Autopilot (Autopilot) as we know today. Autopilot is not being replaced but will work side-by-side with ADP and there is no need to migrate from Autopilot to ADP.

ADP supports personal and corporate device ownership.
Because of the support for personal device ownership there is no need for hardware hashes as we know from Autopilot.
But… as most of us will not allow personal devices by using device platform restrictions, enrolling a device with ADP will fail.
In this scenario we will use Corporate Device Identifiers (I will dig in to this later).

Difference

Autopilot	Autopilot Device Preparation
Hardware Hash required	No Hardware Hash required
Autopilot Profile downloaded before sign-in	Profile downloaded after sign-in
The old ESP	Less complex ESP
Autopilot Profile assigned to devices	Device Preparation Profile assigned to users
Pre-Provisioning & Self-deploying possible	No Pre-Provisioning & Self-Deploying
ESP Tracking	BootStrapper Tracking (status/apps/scripts)
Hybrid support	NO hybrid
Windows 10 & 11	Windows 11

Requirements

Windows 11 22H2 with KB5035942
Windows 11 23H2 with KB5035942
User security group
Device security group with a particular owner

For more details, read the official Microsoft documentation
Windows Autopilot device preparation requirements | Microsoft Learn

In Part 2 I will go through the steps in setting up ADP.