Question

Your organization currently uses an Autopilot user-driven deployment profile for Entra-joined Windows 11 devices. Leadership wants a simpler provisioning experience that does not require you to pre-register device hardware hashes, supports assignment to a security group of enrolling users, and lets you define which apps and scripts must succeed before the user reaches the desktop. Which provisioning approach should you implement?

Accepted Answer

Create a Windows Autopilot device preparation policy and assign it to a user group

Answer

Continue using the existing Autopilot deployment profile but switch it to self-deploying mode

Answer

Create a second Autopilot deployment profile configured for pre-provisioning (pre-provisioning)

Answer

Import device hardware hashes into an Autopilot device group and enable the Enrollment Status Page