Everybody is talking about Windows Autopilot, this blog is not about what autopilot is but on how to get that hardware information for future use with Windows Autopilot as part of the OSD deployment process with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

Windows Autopilot will first be really great when we can deliver a brand new device directly to the end user, but for now the IT department needs to unbox the devices and do some manual work. This example is for a IT department that want to do a Windows Autopilot POC or they know that Windows Autopilot is going to be used in the near feature.

Prerequisite for collecting hardware information:

• Windows 10 1703 or later
• Harvest hardware hash in full OS

You can use Michael Niehaus’s script from GitHub or you can create your own.

There is different ways of doing this with MDT – personally I like to run custom scripts as and application – so that what I will do in this example.

First you create a application in MDT

Select Application with source files

1. Publisher: Microsoft
2. Application Name: Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo

Point to where the script is downloaded

Specify the name of the directory that should be created

Command line: powershell -executionPolicy bypass -file “Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1” -OutputFile vmdt01autopilot$MyComputer.csv -Append

Note: Outputfile need to point to a place where the MDT process have write access

Click Next

Click Finish

Add a application in your MDT Task Sequence

Select the Microsoft Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo application

Important : Hardware hash is only available in WMI in full OS – so you need to run the application in full OS and not in WinPE

Now you are ready to deploy Windows 10 and collect the hardware information used with AutoPilot.

After the deployment you have collected the information you need for AutoPilot and are ready to upload in Microsoft Store for Business

Read more about Windows Autopilot here:

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