AutoPilot mode
Windows AutoPilot is system management without the servers. Similar to Microsoft's InTune or SCCM, Windows AutoPilot can be used to manage devices. It requires Azure AD and some cloud-based services but the result is you can configure and tweak your devices and recover/reconfigure them quite easily without the infrastructure costs associated with a traditional SCCM multi-site deployment architecture.
At the time of writing this book, the current capabilities of AutoPilot are:
- Automatically join devices to Azure AD
- Auto-enroll devices into MDM services, such as Microsoft Intune (requires an Azure AD Premium subscription: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-10-auto-pilot#prerequisites)
- Restrict the administrator account creation
- Create and auto-assign devices to configuration groups based on a device's profile
- Customize Out of Box Experience (OOBE) content specific to the organization
The key item OOBE is tweaking. This is a bit of work done by enterprises now...
