IT Blues: Autopilot Device Preparation - Part 3

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