Testing Autopilot on Windows 11 with SCCM Client Install

Nathan Blasac
Nathan Blasac - Notes from the Field
3 min readJul 9, 2021

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Testing out the plumbing on Windows 11, checking existing deployment methods to ensure they work. (Autopilot, Intune Enrollment, Software Deployment.)

Here I used Michael Niehaus’s Trusty Script to upload the device hardware hash to the Autopilot Service:

Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo.ps1 -Online -AddtoGroup "Name of Group" -Assign

The usual screens:

Login Screen

Credentials Accepted

Autopilot Processing:

After an error I was able to click through

Login Screen:

Spinning

Spinning

Spinning

and more spinning

and we’re in.

We have a successful Azure AD Join and Intune MDM Enrollment as well. The Object is showing up in the Azure AD Portal.

SCCM (Endpoint Manager) Client was installed prior during the Enrollment Status Page (ESP).

The SCCM Client

Strangely, the bootstrapped Task Sequence didn’t seem to run during client setup, but it was definitely called in the Command line. Will be investigating this further in my lab for sure.

I kicked off the Software TS in posterity from Software Center and it ran just fine.

Will continue to test different scenarios and document results here. I look forward to Microsoft officially releasing an ISO via MSDN so we can start using something official. At this point, I have Bare Metal and In Place Upgrade Scenarios failing in my lab.

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Consultant working mainly on System Center, Azure/EMS, Systems Management and Windows Deployment.