Build a Windows Autopilot demo environment in 60 minutes

If you want to test or experiment yourself with Microsoft EndPoint manager / Intune or Windows Autopilot then you have come to the right place.

In this blog, I've detailed a proof-of-concept for building your own Autopilot demo environment. Good luck!

In this testing environment, you will:

• Add a test user to Autopilot test.
• A device in Intune announce.
• Roll out appliances automatically?
• Intune policies and apps, with Windows 10 Enterprise and rolling out a full installation of Office ProPlus.
• Enormous policies for a basic security activate.
• configure the test device for Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection.

1. Create a demo tenant

• See blog: https://365tips.be/how-to-create-an-office-365-tenant-before-testing

2. Set the devicemanagent dns records

• Buy a domain name for example: .BE or .NL for 4€ from https://www.ovh.nl/ (example hoster)
• Set the DNS records for device management to a test domain via step 5

3. Rolling out a cloud-managed PC

• Browse to https://devicemanagement.micro soft.com

• Navigate to In the cloud managed PC, click start.

• Then press start

• Click next

• Then on implement

• The automatic configuration creates these resource types

• Cloud-Managed PC User - Documents
• Cloud-Managed PC Policy Set - Documents
• Cloud-Managed PC Office ProPlus - Documents
• Cloud-Managed PC MDM Security Baseline - Documents

How can you make changes to the configuration later?

• Wish you would like to add more users to this configuration you certainly can!
• Make the necessary users members of the Cloud-Managed PC User security group

4. Install a clean Windows 10 1909 device

• 1903, 1909 or newer!

• Choose a version of Windows 10 in the installation.
• It doesn't matter which version. Every feature is in every installation. Only it comes active only when you have the right license.

Login with your test account to your new Windows 10

• Enter the account you added earlier in the configuration in the login screen of your newly installed test PC.
• You'll get a pop-up for MFA If you activated MFA through the earlier blog post.
• PIN for Windows Hello for Business is automatically activated. Therefore, you need to create a new code.
• Single-Sign-on for Internet Explorer, Edge is active by default.
• All the policies below are activated thanks to this wizard. You can leave this existing. Or reuse it to enforce single standards for your future new workshop.

You have a Windows Autopilot environment from now on!

Check out the Windows Autopilot demo!

https://vimeo.com/382089396

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Jasper

Welcome to 365tips.be. On this website you will read articles and experiences about Office 365 with focus on Microsoft Teams. Feel free to ask me a question and I'll answer in a blog post. Also help others by leaving comments at the bottom of the articles. This blog is created in Dutch. The multilingual website is offered with best-effort machine translation.

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