Windows Autopilot and Pre-Provisioned deployment

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Windows Autopilot offers several deployment scenarios, including pre-provisioning. This allows to respond to some use cases such as: 

  • Provide a workstation prepared via Windows Autopilot and then send it to low bandwidth sites for example. 
But also to provide the end user, a ready-to-use experience by relieving them of sometimes tedious provisioning tasks.

In the following, I will detail all the prerequisites as well as the steps to pre-provision a workstation with Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot.

1. Prerequisites

Device :

  • Microsoft Intune tenant with MDM authority "Set to Intune"
    • Windows Autopilot User Driven AAD or HAAD join devices
  • Windows 10 1903 and above (Enterprise, Pro and Education)
  • Physical devices with TPM 2.0 with device attestation (check your hardware compatibility)
    • Virtual machines are not supported

Network :

  • Wired ethernet connection 
  • TPM attestation validation process requires access to the URLs below :
    • *.microsoftaik.azure.net
    • Intel: https://ekop.intel.com/ekcertservice
    • Qualcomm: https://ekcert.spserv.microsoft.com/EKCertificate/GetEKCertificate/v1
    • AMD: https://ftpm.amd.com/pki/aia
(For more information, see this article Windows Autopilot networking requirements | Microsoft Learn)

It is also possible to use the Wlan connection of your computer to make the provioning,

to do this, you must:

  • Open a PowerShell prompt : Shift +F10
  • Enter this command line : Start ms-availablenetworks:
  • Select your wlan network, enter your credentials and connect

2. Pre-provisioning configuration

  • Go to endpoint.microsoft.com
  • Select Devices / Enroll devices / Windows Enrollment / Deployment Profiles
  • Open an existing profile 
  • Enable pre-provisioned deployment option and click Review+Save

3. Technical flow

The next step is to prepare the user computer before sending it. Below are the details of the actions to be carried out:
  • Import HWID file in Microsoft Intune
  • Apply the deployment profile allowing pre-provisioning on the device. As soon as the profile is Assigned, start the device

  • In first page on OOBE mode, press Windows key 5 times on a keyboard to display the menu to launch the pre-provisioning. Select Pre-Provision with Windows Autopilot and click Next

  • Check your Pre-Provisioning information's and click Next

  • Your computer is provisioning by Windows Autopilot service

  • After this action, your device is setup, please click Reseal

4. User flow

Once the pre-provisioning steps have been completed by the IT department, the user receives the computer and only has to perform the following steps:
  • Start the computer
  • Connect the computer to the Internet
  • Enter your Azure AD username and password

  • Windows Autopilot starts Step 3 of the ESP. this allows you to add the different configuration, application and security elements related to the user.
    • Steps 1 and 2 appear in green because they have already been played during pre-provisioning

Once the account preparation step is complete, the user can use their computer.


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